History Main / BlindBlackGuy

* In ''Signs and Wonders'', Diamond the "deprogrammer" (James Earl Jones) briefly disguises himself as a blind beggar.

* ''ComicBook/DoctorMidNite'': Beth Chapel, Charles [=McNider=]'s successor as [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Doctor Midnight]] in the [=80s=], is a female example.

* Music examples: Music/StevieWonder, Music/RayCharles and any Blues Man with "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Blind]]" in his name.

A very common form of TwoferTokenMinority is the blind black guy. He's blind, and he's black. He may wear CoolShades as is [[BlindPeopleWearSunglasses common in real life]]. He frequently overlaps with MagicalNegro in a BlindSeer insight kind of way and/or HandicappedBadass. The characters are more often than not a Music/RayCharles or Music/StevieWonder Expy or parody, and thus tend to be a BlindMusician as well.

* {{Subverted}} and played straight in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSG807d3P-U this]] Levi's commercial. A woman, finding a ladies' room out of service, runs into the men's bathroom instead. She sees a black man there with sunglasses and a cane. She changes her clothes and her wig (BTW, she seems to be carrying a bag full of cash) and washes up in front of the man, even zipping her Levi's in front of his face. When another man comes starts to come out of a stall, she rushes out. Turns out the man was holding the cane for his friend from the stall, who actually ''is'' blind.

* N'Doul from ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventure'', which is a henchman from Dio and controls, with his stand Geb, [[MakingASplash water]]. However, he's not a parody of Ray Charles nor Stevie Wonder... but the [[WebVideo/JojosBIzarreAdventureAbridged abridged series]] [[DoubleSubverted makes him a parody of Ray Charles!!!]]

* In one episode of ''Series/SevenDays'', Frank became a "ghost" due to a time-traveling accident, and a BlindBlackGuy was the only one who could hear him speak.

* ''Series/TheMagicians'': Dean Fogg temporarily becomes this when he's blinded by Martin Chatwin in the second episode, though his magic lets him get around it...until the whole world loses access to magic in the second season, turning him into a normal blind man. Fogg eventually gets his sight ''and'' his magic back in the fourth season, however.

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* The unnamed preacher from ''Film/TheyLive'' who first tries to convince [[NoNameGiven Nada]] of the alien conspiracy. He's later [[MoralEventHorizon beaten to death by the police]] when they raid his church.
* Jerome from ''Film/MySoulToTake''.

* Reggie from ''Webcomic/{{PVP}}''

''flash to younger BG in a bar''\\

'''BG:''' Heh, we all [[RuleOfFunny thought it was funny]]. ''chuckles''\\

The real life source of this is that, in nineteenth and twentieth-century, many blue-collar Americans lost their sight due to poor working conditions, methanol poisoning from bad moonshine, and insufficient medical care, especially for black people, and since most workers in such positions were men, the end-result was a disproportionate number of blind black men. Many who were born blind or lost their sight early were deliberately pushed towards musical training, as one of the few careers available to them that didn't require sight.

* Tousen from ''Manga/{{Bleach}}''. Unusually for this trope, he turns out to be a [[HeWhoFightsMonsters villain]]. [[spoiler: He [[DeathEqualsRedemption reconciles]] with his friends just before he dies, however]].
* Another villainous example from ''Anime/HeatGuyJ''. One of the [[TheMafia Mafia]] [[EliteMook Elite]] is this. (Complete with playing the piano while laughing maniacally at the thought of [[spoiler: having Clair's left eye in a jar.]])
* N'Doul from ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventure'', which is a henchman from Dio and controls, with his stand Geb, [[MakingASplash water]]. However, he's not a parody of Ray Charles nor Stevie Wonder.... But the [[WebVideo/JojosBIzarreAdventureAbridged abridged series]] [[DoubleSubverted makes him a parody of Ray Charles!!!]]

* Parodied on ''Series/TheMightyBoosh'' - Lester Corncrake is a blind ''white'' guy who fully believes himself to be black. Everyone's just too polite to tell him otherwise as he seems quite invested in the idea.

* Abdul Elijah, the DarkMessiah leader of [[BaldOfEvil The Cleanheads]] in ''Film/RedHeat''.

* On ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}},'' [[OldSoldier Hudson]] manages to [[BlindAndTheBeast befriend]] a blind black Vietnam veteran-turned-novelist named Jeffrey Robbins, who figured out that Hudson wasn't human and didn't care.

A very common form of TwoferTokenMinority is the blind black guy. He's blind, and he's black. He may wear CoolShades as is [[BlindPeopleWearSunglasses common in real life]]. He frequently overlaps with MagicalNegro in a BlindSeer insight kind of way and/or HandicappedBadass. The characters are more often than not a Music/RayCharles or Music/StevieWonder parody, and thus tend to be a BlindMusician as well.

* {{Subverted}} and played straight in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSG807d3P-U this]] Levi's commercia. A woman runs into the men's bathroom to find a man with sunglasses and a cane. She changes and washes up in front of him even zipping her crotch in front of his face, before noticing a man in a stall and rushing out. Turns out the man was holding the cane for his friend who actually is blind.

* On ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}},'' [[OldSoldier Hudson]] manages to [[BlindAndTheBeast befriend]] one named Jeffrey Robbins, who figured out that Hudson wasn't human and didn't care.

* N'Doul from ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventure'', which is a henchman from Dio and controls, with his stand Geb, [[MakingASplash water]]. However, he's not a parody of Ray Charles nor Stevie Wonder.... But the [[WebVideo/JojosBIzarreADventureAbridged abridged series]] [[DoubleSubverted makes him a parody of Ray Charles!!!]]

* Beth Chapel, Charles [=McNider=]'s successor as [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Doctor Midnight]] in the [=80s=], is a female example.

* There is a blind black singer in ''All of Me''.

The real life source of this is that, in nineteenth and twentieth-century, many blue-collar Americans lost their sight due to poor working conditions, methanol poisoning from bad moonshine, and insufficient medical care, especially for black people, and since most such workers in such positions were men, the end-result was a disproportionate number of blind black men. Many who were born blind or lost their sight early were deliberately pushed towards musical training, as one of the few careers available to them that didn't require sight.

The real life source of this is that, in nineteenth and twentieth-century America, many poor black people who were born blind or lost their sight early were deliberately pushed towards musical training, as one of the few careers available to them that didn't require sight.

* Gender-inverted in ''WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog'' with Mama Odie, a blind black old lady.

* ''Series/{{See}}'' has Paris (Creator/AlfreWoodard), who's kind of a BlindSeer. Race doesn't seem to be an issue anymore in the series' world since (almost) everyone is blind. [[spoiler:There's also Jerlamarel, who got his eyes poked by Baba Voss.]]