Colored People's Time
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Colored People's Time
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From its facetious treatment as a time zone.
noun
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A notional system of time (or time zone) which others sometimes derogatorily ascribe to African Americans, and which they sometimes jocularly ascribe to themselves, to account for their supposed tendency to be tardy.
“Colored People's Time,” King said with a grin. “It always takes us longer to get where we're going.”
Similar: CP Time, CP time, CPT, Colored People Time
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