A propaganda term used by Mao Zedong against opponents.
[…] and branded more than one-third of the people in the Agriculture Ministry as "rightists" or "black gangsters."
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see black, gangster. (i.e. one with black skin
Borrowed from Chinese 黑幫 /黑帮 (hēibāng, “gangsters, gang”). The first character, 黑, translates as "black" on its own.
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