History Main / AngryBlackManStereotype

* Mildly deconstructed in ''Series/LawAndOrder'' season 17 episode "Bling"; the primary suspect, Andre Blair is a classic Angry Black Man stereotype, hurling borderline racist invective at the Caucasian investigators and shrugging off criticisms of his lifestyle (profiteering off of stereotypical "thug life" rap and hip-hop artists) as just anti-Afro-American racism. Even the African-American rappers who work with him privately loathe him, confessing to the investigators "off the record" that Blaire is a physically abusive bully who uses his financial and social connections to extort them into hushing up about his assaults on them (the man revealing this was once ''pushed out of a window'' by Blaire, and had to get a titanium rod implanted in his arm due to how badly shattered it was). During his trial, he makes little real effort to defend himself, instead simply asserting that he's only being blamed because he's African-American and the other possible suspect is a Caucasian Jew. Whilst it turns out that the other suspect ''was'' responsible, and the investigators feebly assert that Blaire "had a reason to be angry", the truth is that Blaire did '''not''' help his case at all with his behavior or attitudes; if the investigators had been less scrupulous and dedicated to the truth, his antics would have gotten him sent to jail for a murder he didn't commit-- not because of anti-Afro-American bias, but because he made himself seem so obviously guilty.

** Kareem Said, leader of the Muslim prisoners, is a more updated version of this trope. His is an angry black man, but his anger is more a controlled burn than an explosive rage. Plus, he also accepts Beecher (who is white) as a friend, or at least an ally.

This trope refers to a stereotype that portrays black people in general, and black men in particular, as perpetually (and often [[IrrationalHatred irrationally]]) angry at others due to perceived racial discrimination. Popularized in the 1970s, this stereotype is chock full of UnfortunateImplications. Chief among them is the belief that since the end of the UsefulNotes/CivilRightsMovement, there is no longer any real racial injustice worth complaining about, and the only reason black people might say otherwise is because they're simply angry at the world. Therefore, modern black communities saying they face systemic inequality or oppression can be partially or completely ignored, because they're just looking for reasons to get mad.

* ''Literature/{{Victoria}}'': Roving gangs of angry Black and Hispanic men (called "orcs" by the heroes} roam the countryside, at least one city is destroyed by angry Black rioters, and another is [[GodzillaThreshold nuked]] by the heroes following a similar uprising. Compare and contrast with the [[HappinessInSlavery "Council of Responsible Negroes"]], who are aligned with the [[DesignatedHero ostensible good guys]].

* The Kolnari in ''Literature/TheShipWho'' are the descendants of various hate groups dumped together on a DeathWorld, and had to [[HumanSubspecies evolve physical adeptness]], hyperfertility, and [[DarkIsEvil black skin]] to survive. [[TheFederation Central Worlds]] bombed their planet as they spread into space. Kolnari have a harsh [[TheSocialDarwinist Social Darwinism]] and are proud of what they've become, hating all other humans as "scumvermin" to be killed or turned into {{breeding slave}}s as the Kolnari take what they have. They are AlwaysChaoticEvil and [[GuiltFreeExterminationWar treated as such]]. Other characters compare them to cockroaches and say they have no souls.

Note that a character merely being black and having a HairTriggerTemper is '''not enough''' to qualify as this trope. The character's anger must be rooted in their criticisms of systemic inequality against them, and their cricisms must be dismissed by characters InUniverse or shown to he audience to be obviously baseless.

* Joe from ''Anime/MegaloBox''. While whether or not he is black isn't ''especially'' clear, he's at least coded black — he sports a large, almost afro-like hairstyle, has darker skin than most of the characters, and is from a crime-infested ghetto fond of rap. He also hates authority and the Shirato corporation, especially Yukiko when he thinks she's taking pity on him. He grows out of it eventually, with his disdain for the Shirato corporation and Yukiko being dropped after a few episodes.

** Lucius Fox's son, Tim, was portrayed this way in 1980s ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'' comics.

** ''ComicBook/Hardware1993'', very much so. The trope name is actually the title of his first story. {{Justified|Trope}} by the fact that he is constantly being directly and intentionally oppressed by a physical incarnation of the Man, his arch-nemesis and surrogate father Edwin Alva. The conflict is never explicitly made racial, however. It's worth noting that Hardware's creator, Creator/DwayneMcDuffie, is a black liberal who knows what he's talking about, not a white liberal trying and failing to be "socially conscious". If anything, the character is a [[PlayingWithATrope deliberate exploration]] of the trope, not a straight example.

** ''ComicBook/CaptainAmerica'': The Falcon was this when he was younger, but moved out of this trope as the '70s were left behind.

*** However, [[LegacyCharacter the new Power Man]] -- Afro-Dominican teen Victor Alvarez -- is this example straight. It'd take forever to list the things he is angry about.
** This was the personality of ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'' character the Prowler, as well as Robbie Robertson's activist son.

* Huey Freeman, a juvenile black nationalist and government ConspiracyTheorist, from ''ComicStrip/TheBoondocks'' dips into this territory, but is balanced out by also being TheSnarkKnight.

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanSoulOfTheDragon'': Ben Turner went to Nanda Parbat to learn to control his anger, but as mentioned by O-Sensei, it's a work in progress. He even picks up a fight against Bruce over trivial slights. By the time he reappears, he has greatly mellowed out and is a teacher himself.

* {{Subverted|Trope}} in ''Film/WhiteMansBurden''. Set in an alternate America where [[PersecutionFlip blacks are on the higher end of the social ladder]], John Travolta's character is an angry ''white man''. Other than his skin color though, the archetype plays out exactly the same way.
%%* Jenny's Black Panther acquaintances in ''Film/ForrestGump'', to the latter.
%%* Sergio in ''Film/GetHimToTheGreek''. He's a likeable character. He gives Aaron a break--and Aldous Snow ends up abandoning him when Aaron sets up his own record company.
* [[SociopathicHero Ironhide]], the hot-tempered Autobot weapons specialist who shifts into a GMC Topkick and [[TheBadGuysAreCops Barricade]], the Decepticon who shifts into a police car, from the ''Film/TransformersFilmSeries'', both invoke this character archetype despite being giant alien robots.

* One character in ''Bobby''. He chills out around the end. And then [[ForegoneConclusion Bobby gets shot]], and he gets angry again. It's sad.
* The Harold and Kumar trilogy:

* Parodied in ''Film/ChasingAmy''. Hooper pretends to be one of these in order to sell a comic book about a black power superhero, but he's actually a FlamboyantGay. He's a sympathetic character, however, who laments having to sell out.
%%* ''Film/{{Shaft}}'' is basically all about taking this character and portraying him as the most badass motha you can imagine, allowing him to successfully stick it to the Man.
* ''Film/SweetSweetbacksBaadasssssSong'': Sweet Sweetback (a '70s name if ever there was one) is a black man raging against the system. The film was required viewing of the Black Panthers and kicked off {{Blaxploitation}} as a genre.
* Parodied in ''Film/UndercoverBrother'' with Conspiracy Brother - a very angry, ''very'' ill-informed radical.

* Played straight and subverted with Marcus in ''Film/{{Airheads}}''. Throughout the movie, he accuses Rex and [[SmallNameBigEgo Milo]] of having racist motivations, but has no idea why they start chanting "Rodney King".
* ''Film/DontBeAMenaceToSouthCentralWhileDrinkingYourJuiceInTheHood'' parodies this character complete with African robes and long-winded speeches to the others about how their behavior is just playing into "the man's" oppression of them. He excuses his own hypocrisy in exclusively dating white women by saying he's "sticking it to the white man, by sticking it to the white woman."
* Parodied with Creator/ConanOBrien graphic artist Pierre Bernard and his "Recliner of Rage" bits, where he rants in an emotionless sounding monotone about something trivial that's bothering him, such as collecting old Anime/{{Robotech}} releases on VHS.
* Marcus in ''Film/TheLearningTree''. He has plenty of reasons to be angry. His mother is gone, his father is a shiftless drunk, they live in a broken-down shack, and Marcus is a black man dealing with the endemic racism of 1920s Kansas.
* One could say that there are a few in ''Film/DoTheRightThing'' (particularly Buggin Out), but the trope is somewhat inverted when one black man tells another who is spouting ABM language that he "doesn't want to hear that horseshit." In the commentary track for the DVD release, Creator/SpikeLee specifically notes, when Buggin Out begins ranting about the pictures in the Pizzeria, that he disagrees with the character, saying that it's Sal's place, so it's his right to put whatever pictures he likes on the walls.
* Morgan Freeman's HotBlooded school principal in ''Film/LeanOnMe''.
* ''Film/FallingDown'' has an angry black man shouting on a street corner about how he was rejected for a small loan because he was "not economically viable." His anger has a deep impact on the main character.
* The eponymous hero of ''Film/BlackDynamite'' is an perpetually pissed off Black Power militant who wages an endless war against The Man for ruining his life. {{Justified|Trope}} in his case because [[spoiler:there really is one man behind everything bad that happened to Black Dynamite and the black community, and his name is UsefulNotes/RichardNixon.]]
* ''Film/ClerksII'' has a scene with a black couple, played by comedians Wanda Sykes and Earthquake, where the wife goes berserk when Randal says "porch monkey" in front of her. The husband, on the other hand, doesn't really give a crap and just wants the food they were ordering.
* ''Film/{{Cruising}}'' has a BigLippedAlligatorMoment when, in the middle of an otherwise standard police interrogation, a gigantic African-American nab clad only in a jockstrap and a cowboy hat enters the room and slaps a suspect to the floor.
* Spoofed in ''Film/TwentyOneJumpStreet'': Ice Cube's character rants,
-->'''[[Music/IceCube Dickson]]:''' [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall I know what you're thinking.]] Angry black [[DaChief captain]]. [[{{Cliche}} Ain't nothing but a stupid stereotype]]. ''But guess what, motherfuckers?'' I'm black. [[SelfMadeMan And I worked my ass off to be the captain]]. [[HairTriggerTemper And sometimes I get angry]]. ''So suck a dick!'' [[JustifiedTrope What I'm trying to show you is, embrace your stereotypes]].
* ''Film/HigherLearning'' Malik turns into this type of character towards the middle of the movie, and also the character Fudge in the film fits this trope.

* Taken to the hilt in the {{blaxploitation}} film ''The Black Gestapo'', where, you guessed it, the residents of a terrorized black community conclude that even the Black Panther image is "too soft" to fight back effectively against The Man and start a full-on [[PuttingOnTheReich black supremacist fascist militia]].
* Hermann X (formerly Hermann Lincoln) in ''Film/BankShot''. An angry black man who joins TheCaper in order to fund his campaign for mayor of Anaheim, he carries a gun everywhere and flourishes it at the slightest opportunity. Interestingly, he has no trouble working with a crew of white criminals (although he does {{lampshade}} the fact that he is the only minority on the team) and ex-FBI agent Victor doesn't seem to be able to open his mouth without setting Hermann off.
* ''Film/InTheHeatOfTheNight'' has Det. Virgil Tibbs who finds investigating a murder in a deep south small town is seriously trying his patience to say the least, and eventually admitted that his albeit justified irritation had put him on the wrong track for a bit in his investigation.

* ''Literature/DancingAztecs'': Wylie Cheshire, a former NFL linebacker whose EstablishingCharacterMoment is irritably calling a man to help him fix his punching bag because he just punched it off the wall, and reflecting that he was imaging his brother in-law's face on it.

* Deconstructed in Richard Morgan's ''Literature/BlackMan'' novel (which was, interestingly enough, titled ''Th1rt33n'' in the US)
* Bigger Thomas of ''Literature/NativeSon'' is a dumbed-down version. Besides the intelligence part, he fits the trope like a glove. It should also be noted that Richard Wright, the author of ''Native Son'', is a famous black author.
* Crooks from ''Literature/OfMiceAndMen'' is a black stable hand who due to racial segregation must live in a separate bunk because the whites dislike him. Crooks tries to come off as being this trope, but when Curley offers to befriend him, Crooks is overjoyed to finally have some company but pretends to be angry about it.

* ''Literature/SongOfSolomon'' by Creator/ToniMorrison has Guitar, a member of the group "Seven Days" dedicated to killing white people in revenge for black deaths. He is not depicted as very intelligent.
* In the Literature/FirestarSeries, Azim Thomas and gang-banging company. A first-rate education helmed by an African teacher helps his case, though his best friend Zipper does his level best to snap him out of the Race Traitor route he's taking. [[spoiler:"Do his level best" here means "make Azim part of a robbery/murder against his will". The kid's a sociopath.]]
* Abdul, the main character in ''Literature/TheKid''.

* Very much a thing in ''Literature/{{Victoria}}'' where roving gangs of angry Black and Hispanic men (called "orcs" by the heroes} roam the countryside, at least one city is destroyed by angry Black rioters, and another is [[GodzillaThreshold nuked]] by the heroes following a similar uprising. Compare and contrast with the [[HappinessInSlavery "Council of Responsible Negroes"]], who are aligned with the [[DesignatedHero ostensible good guys]].
* ''Literature/TheMentalState'' has a prison inmate called 'Little Mickey' Crane. He knows every racial slur against Caucasians that there is and can barely open his mouth without blurting one out. To make matters worse, he actively encourages the other black inmates to think the same way and plans to make life miserable for the white inmates once he gets elected Prisoner Representative.

* George Jefferson on ''Series/TheJeffersons'', though not much. His brother Henry on ''Series/AllInTheFamily'' was a bit more verbose and soft-spoken, but arguing with Archie, after a time, will bring out the rage. Archie tends to do that to most people.
* Used beautifully in the UK comedy show ''Series/{{Balls of Steel}}'' with the character of "Militant black guy" see here: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toritseju_Okorodudu Other Wiki]]

* Played straight and subverted in ''Series/{{Angel}}'' with Gunn. While Gunn can have his angry moments there is a fantastic scene when he helps Angel break into Wolfram and Hart:
-->'''Gunn:''' Whoo-whoo! My god! They told me it was true, but I didn't believe them. Damn, here it is! Evil white folks really do have a Mecca. ''[holds up a hand to the security guards stepping out from behind their desk]'' [...] OW! Did you just step on my foot? ''[the nearest guard is still at least 8 feet away from him]'' Is that my foot you just stepped on? Are you assaulting me - up in this haven of justice? Somebody get me a lawyer - because my civil rights have seriously been violated. - Oh, I get it, I get it. You all can cater to the demon, cater to the dead man, but what about the black man?
** Gets turned up to eleven in "[[Recap/AngelS04E06SpinTheBottle Spin the Bottle]]". Teen!Gunn was REALLY militant.
** Made rather funny though when you consider what ultimately happened to Gunn.

* ''Series/{{Oz}}''.
** Kareem Said, leader of the Muslim prisoners, is a more updated version of this trope. His is an angry black man, but his anger is more a controlled burn than an explosive rage. Plus, he also accepts Beecher (who is white) as a friend, or at least an ally.
** Clayton Hughes becomes this after descending into radicalism, repeatedly accusing Glynn of being a CategoryTraitor for working for the white Governor Devlin.

** Generally subverted, however; the Niners are generally shown to be much more controlled and low key than the mostly white Sons, since they are in the employ of a wealthy black businessman with ties to organised crime who keeps a firm lid on them.
%%* Sgt James Doakes from ''Series/{{Dexter}}''. "[[MemeticMutation SURPRISE, MOTHERFUCKER!]]"
* Sgt Greer on ''Series/StargateUniverse'' appears to be set up as a military version of this. Then subvert the hell out of that expectation to the point where he's one of the strongest, most capable, fair but strong-willed members of the entire team.
%%* Dunn Purnsley from ''Series/BoardwalkEmpire''.
* One ''Series/BlueHeelers'' episode focused on a female version, justified as she is introduced being harassed by a sexist racist and Tom took her from her family as part of the Australian government Indigenous relocation program, the Stolen Generation, some twenty-five years before.
* Creator/WandaSykes as herself plays a female version in ''Series/CurbYourEnthusiasm''. She constantly interprets everything that Larry does as racist and yells at him about it.
* Dexter in ''Series/TheJohnLarroquetteShow'', who combines it with hefty doses of EverythingIsRacist.
* On ''Series/TheDailyShowWithTrevorNoah'', this trope is examined by Roy Wood, Jr. in regards to black journalists. He shows clips of them making ''a lot'' of effort to not burst out in anger towards other journalists and pundits, lest the media label them as Angry Black People.

* Mildly deconstructed in ''Series/LawAndOrder'' season 17 episode "Bling"; the primary suspect, Andre Blair is a classic Angry Black Man stereotype, hurling borderline racist invective at the Caucasian investigators and shrugging off criticisms of his lifestyle (profiteering off of stereotypical "thug life" rap and hip-hop artists) as just anti-Afro-American racism. Even the African-American rappers who work with him privately loathe him, confessing to the investigators "off the record" that Blaire is a physically abusive bully who uses his financial and social connections to extort them into hushing up about his assaults on them (the man revealing this was once ''pushed out of a window'' by Blaire, and had to get a titanium rod implanted in his arm due to how badly shattered it was). During his trial, he makes little real effort to defend himself, instead simply asserting that he's only being blamed because he's African-American and the other possible suspect is a Caucasian Jew. Whilst it turns out that the other suspect ''was'' responsible, and the investigators feebly assert that Blaire "had a reason to be angry", the truth is that Blaire did '''not''' help his case at all with his behavior or attitudes; if the investigators had been less scrupulous and dedicated to the truth, his antics would have gotten him sent to jail for a murder he didn't commit-- not because of anti-Afro-American bias, but because he made himself seem so obviously guilty.
* Played with in ''Series/UnbreakableKimmySchmidt''. Titus is pudgy, middle-aged, and [[CampGay incredibly flamboyant]], making him utterly unintimidating. But when he needs to get rid of a group of white teenagers, he simply shouts (apropos of nothing) "what'd you just call me?!". They immediately scatter in fear.
* On ''Series/InLivingColor'', you had Herman Simpson, or Homey D. Clown, who was put in prison for a couple of years via a NoodleIncident and had to work as a clown as a part of his release program. Every appearance he had had him going off on at least one tangent (usually in a song) about The Man.
* ''Series/KeyAndPeele'' parodied how US President UsefulNotes/BarackObama sought to avert this trope by giving him an "anger translator" named Luther, who turned the famously polite and diplomatic Obama's public statements and let everybody know how he was ''really'' feeling about the political issues of the day.
-->'''Obama:''' First off, concerning [[UsefulNotes/TheArabSpring the recent developments in the Middle Eastern region]], I just want to reiterate our unflinching support for all people and their right to a democratic process.\\
'''Luther:''' Hey, all y'all dictators out there, keep messing around and see what happens. Just see what happens! Watch!
** Later sketches revealed that Michelle and Malia Obama have [[SassyBlackWoman their own anger translators]], Michelle's being named Katendra. And in another one, so did UsefulNotes/HillaryRodhamClinton, whose anger translator Savannah was portrayed as an AcademicAlphaBitch.
** Creator/KeeganMichaelKey later went to the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkAK9QRe4ds 2015 White House Correspondents' Dinner]] to play Luther for the ''real'' Obama. [[spoiler:And it was the real Obama who wound up going into this mode on the issue of GlobalWarming, to the point where even Luther eventually had to tell him to cool it.]]
* Female example in ''Series/{{Gentefied}}''. In "Protest Tacos", Yessika claims that most of the Morales' treatment of [[spoiler:her protest at Mama Fina's earlier that day]] make it somewhat clear that they see her as an angry black girl.
* ''Series/PrettyLittleLiarsOriginalSin'': Tyler mockingly jokes that Tabby is being a female example of this when she rails on him for being a misogynistic pig, which gets Faran, who's also a Black woman, angry too:
-->'''Tyler:''' Are you trying to win the award for angriest Black woman or something?
-->'''Faran:''' Shut your ''fucking'' mouth right now, Tyler, if you know what's good for you.

* ''VideoGame/BaldursGateII'': Valygar Corthala doesn't take your shit. Even if you're [[CantArgueWithElves an elf]].
* Purna of ''VideoGame/DeadIsland'' is an [[DistaffCounterpart Angry Black]] ''[[DistaffCounterpart Woman]]''.

* Cobra of ''VideoGame/WingCommander'' is a ''really'' angry black woman who hits all the right notes of this trope, directing her anger at friend and foe alike. [[JustifiedTrope She was taken by the Kilrathi when ten and kept in a slave labor camp for ten years,]] instead of lashing out at mainly white man [[FantasticRacism she wants every Kilrathi dead.]]
* ''VideoGame/PROTOTYPE2'' has its protagonist James Heller, whose life was made a living hell due to the Blacklight virus. And the fact that he now infected with a special strain thanks to the first game's protagonist, Alex Mercer.
* Warren "Easy Money" Williams in ''VideoGame/SaintsRow'' constantly butts heads with his boss, [[ScaryBlackMan Benjamin King]], largely due to the fact that he sees King "sticking his nose up them white boy asses" at city hall as a waste of time and proposes directly attacking [[NeighborhoodFriendlyGangsters Saints Row]] every time the Vice Kings suffer a setback. [[PragmaticVillainy King]] tries to point out that working with men like [[CorruptPolitician Richard Hughes]] grants the Kings an advantage over other street gangs, and that they can't [[AttackAttackAttack start a war every time someone challenges them]], but Warren is deaf to his arguments.

* In ''VideoGame/TheWalkingDeadSeasonOne'', some of Lee's dialogue choices on threatening others can often come across this territory. Characters such as Kenny, Larry, Ben, and even Clementine can be on the receiving end, whether as a warning or as a show of intimidation.
* [[Music/JimiHendrix J]] in ''VideoGame/WolfensteinTheNewOrder'' is one of these among the [[LaResistance Kreisau Circle]]. He initially treats Blazkowicz dismissively and tells him that the United States was no better than the Nazis since both practiced systemic racism and that many Americans practically ''jumped'' into the waiting arms of the Nazis when the United States surrendered, to the point of calling Americans the "Nazis ''before'' the Nazis". Blazkowicz...does not take this well at first, but both warm up to each other as they fight together, and despite the racial differences, he is close friends with Wyatt and later B.J.

* ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'': The Tigers are an Afro-centric martial arts club at Whateley, formed by N'Dizi in response to perceived (and probably real) racism on the part of the existing martial arts club, the Dragons. N'Dizi has basically made this trope mandatory for the members, male and female alike, though he himself seems to see women as inferior and encourages such sexism in the group.
* Troy [=McCann=] from ''Roleplay/SurvivalOfTheFittest'' tends to drop into this from time to time. Notably, he ''intentionally'' made himself out this way in order to be more like the rap stars he idolizes.
** Bryant Carver of SpinOff ''The Program'' also fits. It's actually pretty [[JustifiedTrope justified]]; the setting he's in is based entirely off of DeliberateValuesDissonance, which is basically a good example of EagleLand type 2 with fairly extreme nationalist/xenophobic tendencies. So naturally he tends to distrust white people.

* Like the ''Series/{{Oz}}'' example, Tacoma from ''WebVideo/DemoReel'' is a slow-burning version. He eventually accepts being white-face because "you crackers had it coming", and tries his best to subvert the awful of ''Film/Transformers2007'' when Donnie tells him to spoof it. But he's a NiceGuy too and opens up to both Donnie and Rebecca when they prove they're good people.
* King Caesar in ''WebVideo/MonsterIslandBuddies'' is a mostly likable and affable fellow. Should you get on his bad side, however... Gabara learned it the hard way.

* During the controversy surrounding the town flag in ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'', Chef became a mix of this and MalcolmXerox.

* {{Parodied|Trope}} in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' in "Inside the Outsiders": Black Lightning, the Outsiders' resident ball o' rage, isn't angry at the world -- he's merely ''very easily annoyed''. "Sprinkles -- on ''coffee?'' What are you, ''six?!''"

** Recurring character newscaster Ollie Williams. Though at times it's hard to tell if he's angry, or just has NoIndoorVoice.
* ''WesternAnimation/CodeMonkeys'' has Black Steve, a ludicrously over-the-top parody of this trope, who is literally angry all the time -- at white people, at his colleagues, and at inanimate objects.
** This trope is also balanced by giving Black Steve the most HiddenDepths out of all the other characters, usually just to play it for comedy against his stereotypical personality.
* Rocket Racer in ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries'' was a GadgeteerGenius and a black teenager living in a poor neighborhood who frequently got in trouble with the police. When he's [[FrameUp framed]] by Big Wheel for a robbery he's confronted by Spider-Man, and goes on an angry tirade accusing him of not knowing what it's like to be poor (not knowing it's [[PerpetualPoverty Peter Parker]] of all people he's talking to) and questioning [[ThenLetMeBeEvil what the point of being good is if everyone assumes you're a criminal]]. However, he calms down after they take down Big Wheel together and reiterates his desire to [[AdaptationalNiceGuy use his skills to help the community]].
* {{Parodied|Trope}} in the opening for the ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' episode "Black Mystery Month", where a ''white'' speaker delivers an over-the-top rant, claiming that none of the students has even seen a real black person (followed by the white and black students looking at one another in confusion) and claiming that Beethoven was black.
* Sideshow Raheem, afro'd former assistant of Krusty the Klown in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''. Described by Krusty as an "angry, angry young man".

Most commonly, the Angry Black Man is portrayed as complaining that EverythingIsRacist. Every negative consequence (even if warranted) he faces is an unjust punishment from [[BlamingTheMan The Man]]. Anyone who disagrees with or opposes him is a racist bigot trying to oppress him. Any real or imagined slight against him is an unbearable grievance against him and his people. Needless to say, all his complaints are shown to be baseless, and he's only PlayingTheVictimCard as an excuse to be angry and belligerent toward everyone. Worse yet, it may be implied that he's an AssholeVictim who deserves everything bad that happens to him irrespective of his race. Downplayed versions of this trope may acknowledge that the injustice the Angry Black Man complains about does indeed exist, but still portrays his anger as fundamentally misguided, unhelpful, and counterproductive to the justice he seeks. It usually contains a ([[BrokenAesop broken]]) {{Aesop}} about how FightingBackIsWrong or RevengeIsNotJustice.

Most commonly, the Angry Black Man is portrayed as complaining that EverythingIsRacist. Every negative consequence (even if warranted) he faces is an unjust punishment from TheMan. Anyone who disagrees with or opposes him is a racist bigot trying to oppress him. Any real or imagined slight against him is an unbearable grievance against him and his people. Needless to say, all his complaints are shown to be baseless, and he's only PlayingTheVictimCard as an excuse to be angry and belligerent toward everyone. Worse yet, it may be implied that he's an AssholeVictim who deserves everything bad that happens to him irrespective of his race. Downplayed versions of this trope may acknowledge that the injustice the Angry Black Man complains about does indeed exist, but still portrays his anger as fundamentally misguided, unhelpful, and counterproductive to the justice he seeks. It usually contains a ([[BrokenAesop broken]]) {{Aesop}} about how FightingBackIsWrong or RevengeIsNotJustice.

* The eponymous hero of ''Film/BlackDynamite'' is an perpetually pissed off Black Power militant who wages an endless war against TheMan for ruining his life. {{Justified|Trope}} in his case because [[spoiler:there really is one man behind everything bad that happened to Black Dynamite and the black community, and his name is UsefulNotes/RichardNixon.]]

* Like the ''Series/{{Oz}}'' example, Tacoma from ''WebVideo/DemoReel'' is a slow-burning version. He eventually accepts being white-face because "you crackers had it coming", and tries his best to subvert the awful of ''Film/{{Transformers|2007}}'' when Donnie tells him to spoof it. But he's a NiceGuy too and opens up to both Donnie and Rebecca when they prove they're good people.

This trope refers to a stereotype that portrays black people in general, and black men in particular, as perpetually (and often [[IrrationalHatred irrationally]]) angry at others due to perceived racial discrimination. Popularized in the 1970s, this stereotype is chock full of UnfortunateImplications. Chief among them is the belief that since the end of the UsefulNotes/CivilRightsMovement, there is no longer any real racial injustice worth complaining about, and the only reason black people might say otherwise is because they're simply angry at the world. Therefore, modern black communities saying they face systemic inequality or oppression can be partially or completely ignored, because their claims are baseless and they're just looking for reasons to get mad.

Downplayed versions of this trope may acknowledge that the injustice the Angry Black Man complains about does indeed exist, but still portrays his anger as fundamentally misguided, unhelpful, and counterproductive to the justice he seeks. It usually contains a ([[BrokenAesop broken]]) {{Aesop}} about how FightingBackIsWrong or RevengeIsNotJustice.

Note that merely being black and having a HairTriggerTemper is '''not enough''' to qualify as this trope. The character's anger born from their criticisms of the current state of racial inequality need to be dismissed InUniverse and/or by the narrative ''or'' the character's portrayal needs to be so exaggerated as to make them a caricature (which also serves to let the audience know that this character need not be taken seriously).

Compare MalcolmXerox and BlamingTheMan, both of which often go hand-in-hand with this trope. Also compare SoapboxSadie, which could be considered a DistaffCounterpart to this trope. Compare and contrast AngryWhiteMan. Not to be confused with ScaryBlackMan, which is more about physical appearance than motivations, though the two often overlap.

This trope refers to a stereotype that portrays black people in general, and black men in particular, as perpetually (and often [[IrrationalHatred irrationally]]) angry at others due to perceived racial discrimination. Popularized in the 1970s, this stereotype is chock full of UnfortunateImplications. Chief among them is the belief that since the end of the UsefulNotes/CivilRightsMovement, there is no longer any real racial injustice worth complaining about, and the only reason black people might say otherwise is because they're simply angry at the world. Therefore, modern black communities saying they face systemic inequality, or oppression can be downplayed or even dismissed entirely, because they're just looking for reasons to get mad.

Something that has increasingly become a DiscreditedTrope over the last several decades. In modern works, you're much more likely to see this {{Discussed|Trope}} or [[PlayingWith played with]] rather than intentionally played straight. Still, straight portrayals of the trope do still show up occasionally.

* The eponymous hero of ''Film/BlackDynamite'' is an perpetually pissed off Black Power militant who wages an endless war against TheMan for ruining his life. {{Justified|Trope}} in his case because [[spoiler:there really is one man behind everything bad that happened to him, and his name is UsefulNotes/RichardNixon.]]

* Like the ''Series/{{Oz}}'' example, Tacoma from ''WebVideo/DemoReel'' is a slow-burning version. He eventually accepts being white-face because "you crackers had it coming", and tries his best to subvert the awful of ''Film/{{Transformers}}'' when Donnie tells him to spoof it. But he's a NiceGuy too and opens up to both Donnie and Rebecca when they prove they're good people.

Compare MalcolmXerox and BlamingTheMan, both of which often go hand-in-hand with this trope. Compare and contrast AngryWhiteMan. Not to be confused with ScaryBlackMan, which is more about physical appearance than motivations, though the two often overlap.

This trope refers to a stereotype that portrays black people in general, and black men in particular, as perpetually (and often [[IrrationalHatred irrationally]]) angry at others due to perceived racial discrimination. Popularized in the 1970s, this stereotype is chock full of UnfortunateImplications, chief among them the belief that since the UsefulNotes/CivilRightsMovement, there is no longer any real racial injustice worth complaining about. The reason there is still discontent in modern black communities is because they're simply angry at the world. Therefore, any claims of systemic injustice or oppression toward black people can be downplayed or dismissed entirely, because they're baseless and made up by people looking for reasons to be mad.

Even when works don't go so far as to suggest that the racial oppression the Angry Black Man points out doesn't exist, baked into this trope is the idea that his anger is misguided, unhelpful, and counterproductive to the racial justice the Angry Black Man seeks.

Something of a DeadHorseTrope. In modern works, you're much more likely to see this show up as a DiscussedTrope or [[PlayingWith played with]] in some way rather than intentionally played straight. Still, straight portrayals of the trope do still show up occasionally.

This trope refers to a stereotype that portrays black men (and black people more broadly) as perpetually and often [[IrrationalHatred irrationally]] angry due to perceived racial discrimination. Or in another and more modern case, black men angered and tired of white people being offended on their behalf and speaking and choosing again on their behalf for what they perceive being the "best" for black people. Popularized in the 1970s after the successes of the [[UsefulNotes/CivilRightsMovement American Civil Rights Movement]], this stereotype often works to discredit, minimize, and silence any criticisms that black people make regarding their treatment in society by reducing them all to just "being mad." After all, (cue SarcasmMode) racism is legally forbidden now! And there are many wealthy and successful black men and women, so things can't be ''that'' bad. So all of that talk about continued racial oppression should be waved away as the mere rantings of a person simply determined to be angry with their lot no matter what.

Compare MalcolmXerox and ScaryBlackMan, both of which can overlap. Compare and contrast AngryWhiteMan. See also BlamingTheMan, which often goes hand-in-hand with this trope.