# negro fatigue
## English
### Noun

negro fatigue (uncountable)
* (US, psychology, derogatory) Physical or psychological fatigue or trauma experienced by nonblacks who live or work among black people.
** 2012 April 6, rebcar...@gmail.com, “Negro Fatigue Confirmed”, in soc.culture.israel‎ (Usenet):There has been some speculation in the blogosphere that Negro Fatigue is setting in nationwide among Whites over the Trayvon Martin case. Here are the numbers: http://www.occidentaldissent.com/2012/04/05/usa-todaygallup-poll-negro-fatigue-confirmed/
** 2012, Marshall Elijah Hatch, Project America: memoirs of faith and hope to win the future‎, Life To Legacy LLC, →ISBN:By the end of undergrad in 1980, it was clear that the America that I had entered into college with in 1976 had undergone regressive transformation. With the defeat of President Jimmy Carter and the election of Ronald Reagan, the modern reconstruction of black America was over. The nation had suffered a severe case of “Negro fatigue.” Moving forward, the national government would officially disengage the great Project of righting the wrongs and repairing the damage of America's original sin.
** 2014 November 19, Peter J Ross, “Negro Fatigue: St. Louis Post-Dispatch Admits People are Fed Up with Black Whining”, in soc.med‎ (Usenet):Negro Fatigue: St. Louis Post-Dispatch Admits People are Fed Up with Black Whining Stuff Black People Don’t Like October 16, 2014 A black mayor is an inevitability in Ferguson; the 67 percent black city today, that was 76 percent white in 1990 (99 percent white in 1970).
** 2015 January 22, Gary, “Good reply to Sharpton's: "Hollywood is like the Rocky Mountains, the higher you get, the whiter it gets."”, in soc.retirement‎ (Usenet):I think the folks at the Oscars are suffering "negro fatigue". Instead of being grateful for all the Oscars they got -- which they didn't deserve -- Fat Al thinks there should be a minimum quota for blacks. Simply because they are there.
** 2016 February 14, Byker, “"Roots" remake”, in alt.fan.rush-limbaugh‎ (Usenet):At least it shows fellow Africoonians causing them to be slaves in the first place It’s really no surprise that a string of anti-White slavery movies have shown during the "fundamental transformation" era of Obama. The only good news is that Americans are starting to have "negro fatigue", thanks to Al Sharpton, the "Ferguson effect", and the rise of the "Black Lives Matter" movement.
** 2017 March 31, Christopher Brian Booker, The Black Presidential Nightmare: African-Americans and Presidents, 1789–2016‎, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC:Some observers even cited the factor of “negro fatigue.” Morgan notes that a fifty year old man in 1877 had spent most of his life “worrying over the South and the Negro” first during the antebellum crises over slavery, then during the antebellum crises over slavery, then during the four years of Civil War, and later during twelve years of Reconstruction.
** 2018, William D. Green, The Children of Lincoln, White Paternalism and the Limits of Black Opportunity in Minnesota, 1860–1876:As significant as each of these was, I believe many of these issues to a greater or lesser degree were conjoined with a gnawing sense of "negro fatigue," a profound desire to get on with life, and willful blindness to the resilient and corrosive nature of unattended racism.

#### See also

* dieversity
* diversity fatigue