UncleTom

UncleTom
Uncle Tom (tŏm) n. Offensive
A Black person who is regarded as being humiliatingly subservient or deferential to white people.
  [After Uncle Tom, a character in Uncle Tom's Cabin, a novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe.]

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