Vocabulary: Blacknowledgement

This is the process by which a Black person acknowledges another black person's presence in a social environment where black people are scarce or otherwise absent. These environments include places and events like: lacrosse parties, ice hockey games, early morning classes, Russia and The Ku Klux Clan Annual General Meeting. Blacknowledgement is a show of solidarity and support indicating to another black person that you understand their social anxiety and feel their inner torment. It is a non-verbal communication and confers the notion that you too are having your brain slowly eaten away by songs like “Pour some sugar on me” and “Sweet home Alabama”.

In many such cases, a non-black person who witnesses a blacknowledgement will mistake it for familiarity of some kind. They will often ask,
“hey you know that guy right?”'
“Nope. Never seen him before!”
They will be befuddled by this because the blacknowledgement may often include a brief conversation and perhaps an exchange of relevant goods or services.

A blacknowledgement can be executed using anything from a simple nod to a well executed six part, click and snap, integrated handshake. In less friendly situations, a blacknowledgement may be used as a territorial gesture. It can be used to signal to another black person that you are the resident black person in that environment and that they should cower off and find non-black friends of their own. Many black people feel that their novelty wears thin when they find out that they are not the "token black person" anymore. Tiger Woods uses a similar type of blacknowledgement to ensure that he is the only black golf player being televised at any given time.

IT WORKS SOMETHING LIKE THIS HAHA!

Category: Funny