Although entertainment media-films, games, music, novels, etc.-have gotten better at depicting people as complex, nuanced individuals in recent years, it is still evident many struggle with what the hell to do with black characters. It’s discrimination feigned as fiction that was initially meant to reinforce that African/African-American/black is both inferior and other. Abhorrently disgusting and inherently wrong, these spurious portrayals paint black people in ways that are not reflective of the population. From the Black Dude Dies First to the Black and Nerdy to the Sassy Black Woman, and everything in between, on-screen portrayals of black characters lean heavily on tropes that have been ingrained in media since its birth. Regardless of how we perceive characters, black stereotypes extensively permeate media.
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