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kinfolk

[kin-fohk] / ˈkɪnˌfoʊk /


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The best example of this is the famous "Key & Peele" skit of President Obama reserving dap for skin folk and kinfolk alike while extending the standard handshake for white folks.

From Salon Feb. 19, 2024

The story line in “Shucked” is partly a corollary to the real-life relationship between Horn’s Yankee family and his husband’s Southern kinfolk.

From New York Times Mar. 21, 2023

As she watched volunteers pass out turkeys, she said she was “taking care of my kinfolk here.”

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 25, 2021

He thinks a Black cartoonist might also be uniquely critical and uncowed by the diversity of the Biden administration: “There’s an old saying in Black culture: ‘All skinfolk ain’t kinfolk.’

From Washington Post Feb. 16, 2021

One of the kinfolk is in the Valiant Village, which is a care facility for patients suffering from dementia.

From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan




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