blackity-black

Etymology
. Perhaps from, with reduplication serving to intensify or stress the focus on being black (i.e. African-American); being equivalent to ; or alternatively a corruption of. Compare. Spelling with -ity is likely due to confusion with nominal suffixes,.

Adjective

 * 1)  Typifying characteristic traits (e.g. physical, cultural, linguistic, etc.) of African-American blacks, especially in defiant contrast to those of whites or white-favouring blacks; quintessentially or characteristically black