The Arabic slur Abeed labels sub-Saharan Africans as slaves and persists among US immigrants

Evidence

MuslimARC’s 2014 Twitter campaign #DroptheAWord sought to eliminate the use of Abeed (meaning “slave” or “servant” in Arabic), which is commonly used in the Middle East to refer to sub-Saharan African people. Some immigrant Muslims from the Middle East continued this practice in the United States by referring to African American Muslims by the same term. — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 1039

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines ‘Abeed’ as a racial slur derived from the Arabic word for slave.
• CANDY: The #DroptheAword campaign name and Abeed slur is a compact, shareable piece of linguistic trivia about global anti-Black racism.