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10	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 unfortunate implications. 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.
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12	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]]) {{A\|nAesop}}esop about how FightingBackIsWrong or RevengeIsNotJustice.
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14	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.
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16	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 criticisms must be dismissed by characters InUniverse or shown to the audience to be obviously baseless.
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18	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 and ConspiracyTheorist. Not to be confused with ScaryBlackMan, which is more about physical appearance and behavior than ideology and motivations, though the two often overlap.
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26	%%* ''VideoGame/{{Medabots}}'': Metabee's [[{{Woolseyism}} English voice actor plays him as one of these]].
27	* 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.
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30	[[folder:Comic Books]]
31	* ''Franchise/TheDCU'':
32	%%** Lucius Fox's son, Tim, was portrayed this way in 1980s ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'' comics.
33	** ''ComicBook/GreenLantern'': John Stewart was originally this kind of character, which meant he had to prove himself to Green Lantern Hal Jordan that he was a worthy recruit to the Corps. While John eventually mellowed for the most part, Bruce Timm and Paul Dini decided the early take on John would make for the most dramatically interesting Green Lantern for the Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse version of ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague''.
34	** ''ComicBook/Hardware1993'', very much so. "Angry Black Man" 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, was a black liberal who knew what he was 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.
35	** Tyroc from ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'', even though it takes place in the year 3000. Notably, the writers and artists were all painfully aware of how this trope was being played in a setting where racism should've been eliminated, but were forced to portray Tyroc as such due to the ExecutiveMeddling. When Paul Levitz brought Tyroc back in the late 2000s, he received some CharacterDevelopment beyond his initial portrayal.
36	** An early ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'' issue featured a teenage hero called Jericho in a racial-issues themed issue. The executives didn't want controversy, so they prevented the story from being published, but many of Jericho's characteristics were later reused in Cyborg, and his name was recycled as Deathstroke's son.
37	** [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] in ''ComicBook/{{Static}}'' when Static faces off against the MalcolmXerox Commando X. While caught doing research on him at school he plays it off as though he's writing a report on him, which gets his parents called. Virgil claims that black people can't be racist because they don't have the power to oppress anybody, but his ReasonableAuthorityFigure father states that anybody is capable of using violence to oppress others and that people like Commando X are just ANaziByAnyOtherName.
38	* ''Franchise/MarvelUniverse'':
39	** ''ComicBook/TheAvengers'': In the 1990s, Marvel introduced Rage, a superhero from the slums whose first appearance included him getting up in ComicBook/CaptainAmerica's face about why the Avengers (at the time) had no African-American members, as seen above. The relative immaturity of his arguments and social views was given a surprising explanation: at the time, Rage was actually only ''[[YoungerThanTheyLook 13 years old]]''; after [[ToxicWasteCanDoAnything being exposed to toxic waste]], he developed a super-powered body that looked like it belonged to a grown man. Once they learned the truth, the Avengers booted him from their ranks citing that he was far too young to be an Avenger; he instead went on to join the ComicBook/NewWarriors, Marvel's primary "teen supers team". After being in ComicBookLimbo for quite a while, Rage returned in ''ComicBook/CaptainAmericaSamWilson'', now in his late teens and accordingly [[CharacterDevelopment more reasonable and mature than before]], if no less passionate about fighting against injustice and being a hero.
40	%%** ''ComicBook/CaptainAmerica'': The Falcon was this when he was younger, but moved out of this trope as the '70s were left behind.
41	** {{Subverted\|Trope}} with Jackie [=McGee=] in ''ComicBook/ImmortalHulk''. She points out that she lives in a society that tells her she ''can't'' get angry, no matter how much crap is thrown her way. She calls out the Hulk on how he, a genius white man who turns into a walking superweapon, can be given government pardons and statues no matter how much destruction is left in his wake, while she can't so much as become angry at whatever injustice befalls her. In fact, she has dedicated her life to finding Bruce just so she can discover how she could become like him, with her anger recognized and accepted rather than dismissed and looked down upon.
42	** ComicBook/LukeCage, a.k.a. Power Man, the superpowered version, zigzags this trope. He started it off playing this trope straight, if {{downplayed\|Trope}} (his major enemy was, in fact, fellow Afro-American "Diamondback", a former buddy of his turned crime-lord). While he grew out of this behavior as he gained experience and matured, there are times when he slips back into it, and it's DependingOnTheWriter whether or not he still holds these views.
43	%%*** 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.
44	%%** This was the personality of ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'' character the Prowler, as well as Robbie Robertson's activist son.
45	** Nighthawk in ''ComicBook/SupremePower'' takes this trope and doubles down on the borderline racist elements to the point of being a blatant black supremacist who [[BoomerangBigot will literally ignore black gangbangers mugging, raping, and murdering white civilians to instead rant about how much evil whites do unto blacks]]. Ironically, the superhero who dislikes Nighthawk the most is the African-American [[SuperSpeed speedster]] Blur, who opines that Nighthawk is full of garbage and has actually assaulted him several times, noting that despite living all his life in the DeepSouth, he's received more racism from ''Nighthawk'' than any of the white people he grew up with.
46	** Charcoal from ''ComicBook/{{Thunderbolts}}'' did not start out like this but evolved in this direction. Creator/KurtBusiek gave him a {{Child Soldier\|s}} and SuperSoldier background, but otherwise Charlie Burlingame was still a kid who attempted to acquire a semblance of a normal life and make some friends at school. Fabian Nicieza first had Charlie witness the assassination of his best friend, then revealed that under the calm facade Charcoal harbored a lot of anger and resentment at the world. Under Nicieza, Charcoal became angrier, progressively anti-social, and started seeing "racists" everywhere around him. Not only did he have trouble associating himself with his non-superpowered friends, he also started demonstrating a sadistic streak, such as enjoying the smell of his opponents' burning flesh.
47	** ''ComicBook/UltimateGalactusTrilogy'': Captain America wants to detain Misty Knight for the incident with the Silver Wing. She replies: "Kiss my black butt, Captain Whitey."
48	** Patriot from ''ComicBook/YoungAvengers'' is ''not'' like this, but is assumed to be by his classmates in his solo one-shot, when he tries to give a report about how the first African-American superhero (his grandfather) was treated. (The point of the story is that you don't have to say MyCountryRightOrWrong to be a patriot.)
49	--->'''Kid:''' ''You're'' the racist! You think everything's about race!
50	** When originally introduced in the ''ComicBook/IronMan''-comics, [[Characters/IronManHeroes James Rhodes]] could come across as this, especially when [[AffirmativeActionLegacy he took over the Iron Man-identity]] from Tony. It was later retconned that [[ClothesMakeTheManiac the Iron Man armor affected his brain waves]] thanks to being callibrated for Tony, explaining his stereotypical earlier behavior away.
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54	* ''ComicStrip/TheBoondocks'': Huey Freeman, a juvenile black nationalist and government ConspiracyTheorist, dips into this territory, but is balanced out by also being TheSnarkKnight.
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58	* Mr. Grits from ''WesternAnimation/SausageParty'' loathes crackers up to the point [[spoiler: where he forces the crackers to have sex with him during the food orgy.]]
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62	* Spoofed in ''Film/TwentyOneJumpStreet'': Music/IceCube's character rants,
63	-->'''[[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]].
64	* ''Film/{{Airheads}}'': Played straight and subverted with Marcus. Throughout the movie, he accuses Rex and [[SmallNameBigEgo Milo]] of having racist motivations, but has no idea why they start chanting "[[UsefulNotes/RodneyKingAndTheLosAngelesRiots Rodney King]]."
65	* ''Film/BankShot'': Hermann X (formerly Hermann Lincoln) is 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.
66	* 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.]]
67	* 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]].
68	%%* One character in ''Film/{{Bobby}}''. He chills out around the end. And then [[ForegoneConclusion Bobby gets shot]], and he gets angry again. It's sad.
69	* 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.
70	* ''Film/ClerksII'' has a scene with a black couple, played by comedians Creator/WandaSykes 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.
71	%%* ''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.
72	%%* Probably one of the best examples of Creator/SamuelLJackson as an Angry Black Man is Zeus Carver from ''Film/DieHardWithAVengeance''.
73	* ''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."
74	* 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.
75	* ''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.
76	%%* Jenny's Black Panther acquaintances in ''Film/ForrestGump'', to the latter.
77	* The ''Film/HaroldAndKumar'' trilogy:
78	** Subverted in ''Film/HaroldAndKumarGoToWhiteCastle''. Harold's cellmate Jackson is a black guy reading a book on civil disobedience who calmly reveals he was arrested because he was black. He then says that he's overweight, black, and has two gay dads, so he's pretty much immune to whatever crap people throw his way. When the police return and get him up against the wall of the cell, he calmly accepts it.
79	** Subverted again in ''Film/HaroldAndKumarEscapeFromGuantanamoBay'', as with just about every other race trope. The duo's car breaks down in a black neighborhood when Harold breaks a fire hydrant and the water gushing out kills their music box, then a bunch of big guys grab some metal equipment and start converging on their car, scaring the duo into running away. When they're gone, the viewer is told they were going to [[HelpMistakenForAttack fix the car]].
80	** Parodied in ''Film/AVeryHaroldAndKumar3DChristmas'' where there are two black brothers Latrell and Lamar who are selling Christmas trees. They take turns playing the "angry black guy" and the other must act very nice and good-mannered.
81	--->'''Harold:''' ''[walks up to the brothers for his tree]'' Hey, you guys in charge?\
82	'''Latrell:''' Yeah, what the fuck is it to you, MOTHERFUCKER?!\
83	'''Harold:''' Listen, we're just here to pick up a tree that we reserved.\
84	'''Latrell:''' Oh yeah? We just sold yo little punk ass tree, BITCH!! ''[spits the grill right out of his mouth]''\
85	'''Harold:''' ''[shocked]'' What? You sold it to who?\
86	'''Latrell:''' Those white boys over there! ''[points at Kumar and Adrian driving away with Harold's tree]''
87	%%* ''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.
88	* ''Film/InTheHeatOfTheNight'' has Det. Virgil Tibbs who finds investigating a murder in a DeepSouth 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.
89	* Marcus in ''Film/TheLearningTree'' 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.
90	* Frank in ''Film/OceansEleven'' acts like this as a part of the heist:
91	-->'''Frank:''' You heard me. Just 'cause a black man tries to earn a decent wage in this state...\
92	'''Linus:''' That has nothing to do with...\
93	'''Frank:''' ... some cracker cowboy like you's gotta kick him out on the street. Want me to jump down, turn around, pick a bale of cotton, won't let me deal cards, might as well call it whitejack.
94	%%* ''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.
95	* ''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.
96	* ''Film/TaxiDriver'' has the memorable scene of an angry black man aggressively walking down a New York sidewalk while shouting in anger about wanting to kill a woman. The actor is even named "angry black man" in the film credits.
97	* ''Film/TransformersFilmSeries'': [[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, both invoke this character archetype despite being giant alien robots.
98	* Parodied in ''Film/UndercoverBrother'' with Conspiracy Brother--a very angry, ''very'' ill-informed radical.
99	* ''Film/WatermelonMan'' has KarmicTransformation victim Godfrey Cambridge wake up black and transition to this sort of character as he realizes just how rigged the system is. At the close of the film, he's actively training in martial arts with other black people so as to be able to defend himself.
100	* {{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.
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104	%%* Deconstructed in Richard Morgan's ''Literature/BlackMan'' novel (which was, interestingly enough, titled ''Th1rt33n'' in the US).
105	* Invoked in ''Literature/TheDestroyer'' novels. Master Chiun, the WiseOldMentor, is an incredible racist (having been raised in the 19th century) of the Korean stripe, so he sees ''all'' races as specific insulting tropes. Blacks, in his viewpoint, are "always angry." (Which is better than his opinions of Japanese, or Russians, or Americans, or Chinese, or... damn well everyone who had the bad taste to not be Korean, really). Book #30, ''Mugger Blood'', was set in the New York ghettos, and has more straightforward portrayals alongside the more villainous gang members.
106	* 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.]]
107	%%* Abdul, the main character in ''Literature/TheKid''.
108	* ''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.
109	%%* 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.
110	* 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.
111	* 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. Even in ''The Ship Avenged'', with a [[TokenHeroicOrc Token Heroic Kolnar]] who [[DefectingForLove defects for love]] and in so doing is "given his humanity" by his lover, there's absolutely no consideration from the other characters about ''why'' the Kolnari are like this and if there's a way to resolve things peacefully with any but the few willing to placidly give up everything.
112	* ''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.
113	* ''The Spook Who Sat by the Door'' (1969) is about a guy who, hired by the CIA as their token black agent, boils over at the discrimination he sees and uses his CIA skills to start an all-out race war.
114	* ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive'': While discrimination in the Alethi culture is generally along the lines of eye color rather than skin shade, Kaladin fits the spirit of this trope in a number of ways. He's a member of a discriminated group, harboring massive justified hatred towards all members of the oppressing group, and makes more trouble for himself by making this hatred clear to anyone and everyone he meets.
115	-->'''Dalinar:''' You've got a massive chip on your shoulder, son. Not that it's not understandable.
116	* ''Literature/TheTurnerDiaries'' explores this trope from, to put it as tactfully as possible, the perspective of the sort of people real-life examples of Angry Black Men are angry ''with''.
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120	* Tracy Jordan on ''Series/ThirtyRock'' is often too stupid and distracted to care about race, but he will occasionally cross into this, and sometimes come out with oddly profound and knowledgeable (albeit bombastic) statements about race relations and the history of racism in America. For instance, on a walking tour of Boston, he calls out an actor playing John Hancock on the hypocrisy of many Founding Fathers being slave-owners.
121	-->'''"John Hancock:"''' In 1776, I, John Hancock, with one stroke of my pen, set all Americans free.\
122	'''Tracy:''' You LYING WHITE DEVIL! The only people you set free were rich white dudes like yourself!
123	* ''Series/{{Angel}}'':
124	** Invoked by Gunn when he helps Angel break into Wolfram and Hart:
125	--->'''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?
126	** Gets turned up to eleven in "[[Recap/AngelS04E06SpinTheBottle Spin the Bottle]]". Teenage Gunn was REALLY militant.
127	* UK comedy show ''Series/BallsOfSteel'' has the character of Militant Black Guy, who accuses everyone of being racist and [[EverythingIsRacist seeing slurs in words that aren't slurs]].
128	* 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.
129	%%* Dunn Purnsley from ''Series/BoardwalkEmpire''.
130	* 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.
131	* ''Series/CurbYourEnthusiasm'': Creator/WandaSykes AsHerself plays a female version. She constantly interprets everything that Larry does as racist and yells at him about it.
132	* 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.
133	%%* Sgt James Doakes from ''Series/{{Dexter}}''. "[[MemeticMutation SURPRISE, MOTHERFUCKER!]]"
134	* 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.
135	* Frank Pembleton was portrayed as one early on in ''Series/HomicideLifeOnTheStreet'', frequently accessing his coworkers of racism and [[EverythingIsRacist blaming his coworkers' dislike of him on racism]]. Felton pointed out that Pembleton was disliked simply because he was a {{Jerkass}}, though the series also had Pembleton make some genuinely good points about his coworkers' prejudices. He grew out of this through CharacterDevelopment, and his accusations of racism were reserved for when he was making a genuinely good point.
136	* 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.
137	%%* Dexter in ''Series/TheJohnLarroquetteShow'', who combines it with hefty doses of EverythingIsRacist.
138	* ''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.
139	-->'''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.\
140	'''Luther:''' Hey, all y'all dictators out there, keep messing around and see what happens. Just see what happens! Watch!
141	** 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.
142	** 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.]]
143	* 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 when he hit the ground). During his trial, he makes little real effort to defend himself, instead simply asserting that [[EverythingIsRacist 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.
144	* ''Series/{{Oz}}'':
145	** Kareem Said, leader of the Muslim prisoners, is a more nuanced 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, and is generally compassionate towards all races. His anger is more towards the system that propagates racism than individual people, though he's still quite confrontational towards the white liberal [=McManus=].
146	** The other Muslim prisoners are similarly nuanced. The more militant Hamid Khan and the somewhat treacherous Zahir Arif are similarly depicted sympathetically despite being more hard-line than Saïd, and make numerous cogent points that support their viewpoints. Huseni Mershah is portrayed closer to this archetype at its most stereotypical, but it's used to make him as a self-serving and moronic opportunist who lacks the common sense and morality of his colleagues.
147	** Clayton Hughes becomes this after descending into radicalism, repeatedly accusing Glynn of being a CategoryTraitor for working for the white Governor Devlin.
148	* ''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:
149	-->'''Tyler:''' Are you trying to win the award for angriest Black woman or something?
150	-->'''Faran:''' Shut your ''fucking'' mouth right now, Tyler, if you know what's good for you.
151	* ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'':
152	** Creator/ChrisRock's character from ''The Dark Side with Nat X''.
153	--->'''Nat X:''' Now ''what'' kind of Man am I talking about? I'm talking about the same Man who calls all his bad children the '''black''' sheep. ''I'm'' talking about the ''same'' Man who made the '''black''' jellybean the worst-tasting candy on the face of the Earth!
154	** Creator/EddieMurphy did it first with [[http://snltranscripts.jt.org/84/84iminute.phtml Prof. Shabazz Morton's Black History Minute.]] Better remembered now for one of the few times Eddie screwed up on camera.
155	--->'''Prof. Shabazz Morton:''' Stop clapping before y'all make me smile!"
156	* Parodied in the ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'' episode "My Roommates":
157	-->'''J.D.:''' Come on, you two are interracial best buddies. I, too, have a [[TokenBlackFriend black best friend]]. Go out, enjoy it! Celebrate your uniqueness! I can do it!\
158	'''Ron:''' I'm sorry. Did you just call me black? Because the last time I checked, the correct term was "African-American".\
159	'''J.D.:''' Well, Turk lets me call him Brown Bear.\
160	'''Ron:''' Who the hell is Turk?!\
161	'''J.D.:''' I should go. ''[leaves]''\
162	'''Dr. Cox:''' Angry black man. It never disappoints.\
163	'''Ron:''' I pull it out when I need to.
164	* ''Series/SonsOfAnarchy'':
165	** {{Lampshade\|Hanging}}d in an episode: Tig and Clay are planning on framing a black gang, the One-Niners for a murder they plan to commit.
166	--->'''Tig:''' Blame it on the angry black man.\
167	'''Clay:''' It's the American way.
168	** 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.
169	* One episode of ''Series/PennAndTellerBullshit'' looked at reparations and how some African Americans and minorities were...um, angry at the real and perceived crimes committed against them and demanded money. But the show also had angry black men who were opposed to compensation because it comes across as, "I'm weak because of my race" up to and including an African proud of Confederate soldiers being men who had answered the call and served even if it was over slavery.
170	* 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.
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173	[[folder:Music]]
174	* Parodied in 1974 by Flo & Eddie on "Livin in the Jungle":
175	-->''Death to Whitey, po' white trash\
176	Kick his ass, smoke his hash\
177	Ball his woman, ball his son\
178	Death to whitey... right on!''
179	%%* Music/{{NWA}}: Niggaz Wit Attitude. The music even reflects this trope.
180	%%* Music/TupacShakur: He made several songs that made him fit this trope.
181	%%* Music/KanyeWest He is no longer like this today, but in the beginning of his career some of his songs fitted this trope like All Falls Down, he even had an Angry Black Man moment in real life who can forget him saying on live T.V. George Bush doesn't care about Black people.
182	%%* Music/PublicEnemy: With songs like "Fight the Power," "Fear of a Black Planet" and many other similar songs, it's easy to see why they fit this trope.
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185	%%[[folder:Pro Wrestling]]
186	%%* Wrestling/BobSapp's larger-than-life character in Japan.
187	%%* [[Wrestling/AllenCoage Bad News Brown]] basically hated everything and trusted no one.
188	%%* The Nation of Domination under [[Wrestling/RonSimmons Faarooq's]] leadership were a PowerStable of Angry Black Men. After [[Wrestling/DwayneJohnson The Rock]] became the leader, these characteristics were downplayed.
189	%%* Originally, the formation of Wrestling/TheNewDay was under these circumstances. This was quickly dropped and only implied as they turned heel soon after their debut, with Kofi Kingston intimating they embrace positivity by clapping, or they snap.
190	%%* R-Truth's 2011 FaceHeelTurn combined this and SanitySlippage.
191	%%* Theodore Long's Thugging & Bugging Enterprises, which was a SpiritualSuccessor to the Nation, featured Wrestling/MarkHenry, Rodney Mack, [[Wrestling/CarleneMoore Jazz]], Wrestling/DLoBrown, and Wrestling/ChristopherNowinski as the group's TokenWhite.
192	%%* Wrestling/BookerT became this in 2004 after being drafted from RAW to Smackdown, most of it stemming from his belief that the blue show was the Minor leagues.
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195	[[folder:Video Games]]
196	* Yale of ''[[Creator/ZapDramatic Ambition]]'' has a brief instance of this when he remarks that the white man built his empire on enslaving the black man. [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment This remark comes out of nowhere and is swiftly forgotten.]]
197	%%* Purna of ''VideoGame/DeadIsland'' is an [[DistaffCounterpart Angry Black]] ''[[DistaffCounterpart Woman]]''.
198	* ''VideoGame/SaintsRow'': Warren "Easy Money" Williams 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.
199	-->'''Warren:''' Great, now we got yo' cracka ass friends trippin'! Like I said, fuckin' with City Hall is a waste of time!\
200	'''King:''' Wrong. Workin' ''with'' them is what gives us power.\
201	'''Warren:''' Yo, fuck that! (''displays his gun'') ''This'' is what gives us power!\
202	'''[[SurroundedByIdiots King]]:''' Get the ''fuck'' out of my office.
203	%%* 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.
204	* 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]], so instead of lashing out at the white man, [[FantasticRacism she wants every Kilrathi dead]].
205	* ''VideoGame/{{Wolfenstein}}'':
206	** [[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.
207	** Grace Walker is the female version of this trope in ''VideoGame/WolfensteinIITheNewColossus,'' picking up where J left off by touching on the racial tensions of mid-20th century America and adding in issues on sexism to the mix just to be thorough. As with J, through her encounters with B.J. and fighting alongside him, she becomes one of Blazkowicz's FireForgedFriends by the end of the game.
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210	[[folder:Web Original]]
211	* 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.
212	* The Axis of Anarchy member Bruiser in ''WebVideo/TheGuild''. May be a parody because he seems less to be angry about racial issues than about, well, ''everything''.
213	* The Hatta from ''WebAnimation/NeuroticallyYours'', an angry black squirrel, is a parody of this trope. He's commonly held to be the most offensive character on the show.
214	* ''Roleplay/SurvivalOfTheFittest'':
215	** Troy [=McCann=] 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.
216	** 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.
217	* ''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.
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220	[[folder:Western Animation]]
221	* {{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.
222	* {{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?!''"
223	* All three of the main characters in ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks'': Huey, Riley, and Robert Freeman are all angry black males, albeit for differing reasons.
224	* ''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.
225	* On ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', Peter (who has swallowed a cellphone) gets a call from [[KavorkaMan Quagmire]], bragging about how he had sex with a black woman. Everyone can hear, so Peter ends the conversation when a black couple walks by (a little surprised, but not upset or anything). Peter explains that he didn't want to offend them, in case the man was one of those angry black men. He wasn't, until [[TooDumbToLive Peter]] started with the whole PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy thing, thus offending him.
226	%%** Recurring character newscaster Ollie Williams. Though at times it's hard to tell if he's angry, or just has NoIndoorVoice.
227	* Transcended metaphorically in early episodes of ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' which let Bender the robot speak up on behalf of the oppressed robot class. His dissatisfaction with life on Earth sometimes mirrored real-life criticisms made by black nationalists, notably in the episode "Fear of a Bot Planet", the episode title itself [[ShoutOut an allusion to a seminal]] Music/PublicEnemy album.
228	-->'''Bender:''' ''[at a [[{{Calvinball}} Blernsball]] game]'' You humans are afraid of a little robot competition. You would never let a robot on the field.\
229	'''Fry:''' What are you talking about? I see plenty of robots out there.\
230	'''Bender:''' Yeah, doing crap work. Bat boys, ball polishers, and sprinkler systems. But how many robot managers are there?\
231	'''Fry:''' Eleven?\
232	'''Bender:''' Zero! ''[throws a bottle to the ground, and a young robot comes to clean it up]'' But look who's scraping up the filth. Is it a human child? I wish!
233	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Sideshow Raheem, afro'd former assistant of Krusty the Klown. Described by Krusty as an "angry, angry young man".
234	%%* During the controversy surrounding the town flag in ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'', Chef became a mix of this and MalcolmXerox.
235	* 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]].
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