Can anyone confirm that US black-slang used to include the term HNIC, standing for "Head Negro in Charge"? ("negro" being here a more-polite version of the word actually used)

One used in the military a lot: HMFIC. Head Mother-f***er In Charge.

The Alpha ______ (fill in the blank; Wolf is the original version)

The Alpha ______

I've pertnear allus seen that blank filled in with Male, the wolf or whatever being assumed from the species of discourse. Even in the case of humans the term has always been Alpha Male. However I have also seen Alpha Female as we slowly have come to discover that some species are matriarchal, e.g., an elephant herd will have an alpha female. In some cases there will be a hierarchy of females even in a patriarchal species and there will be an alpha female in those species. This can get complicated by the tendency of some patriarchal species to have the alpha female get her power from her relationship with the alpha male and in vice versa in some matriarchal species.

Keiva asked: Can anyone confirm that US black-slang used to include the term HNIC, standing for "Head Negro in Charge"? ("negro" being here a more-polite version of the word actually used)

Indeed, this is true. There was a recent uproar when an article in Boston magazine about Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. was titled "Head Negro in Charge." Many objected to the obvious (to some) paraphrase of a very insulting and denigrating moniker.

Wife

(and I have Peggy's permission to post this!)

Wife

As in SWMBO®

(ask CapK)

of course, with Faldage, I let him think all the good ideas are his.....