History Main / EverythingIsRacist

* In an episode of ''Series/ForThePeople'', Assistant US Attorney Leonard Knox, a prep school and Harvard educated upper-class Black man whose mother is a Senator, prosecutes a crooked Black real estate developer for fraud. The guy's legendary Black defence lawyer depicts his client as a self-made Black man being persecuted by a racist white establishment, and accuses Leonard of being a [[TheWhitestBlackGuy white-acting]] [[CategoryTraitor Uncle Tom]]. As Leonard pointis out, the lawyer is a shameless {{Hypocrite}} who has spent most of his career defending white {{Corrupt Corporate Executive}}s who directly or indirectly hared Black communities, and dumped his cancer-stricken Black wife for a much younger white woman.

** Andre Blair from "Bling" is almost a classic {{Angry Black Man|Stereotype}}, who spends most of his time in court sneering that people are only willing to suspect him over the other suspect is because of their respective races... completely ignoring that he has both a valid motive for the murder ''and'' a history of being violently temperamental and physically abusive, such as the time he ''threw a man out of a window''. It's at least mildly deconstructed in that Andre's antics only serve to make the jury ''more'' convinced of his guilt, such as when he sneeringly declares that he can't have been responsible for ordering an attack on the other suspect, who is claiming that Andre intimidated him into falsely claiming responsibility by threatening his family because if he had given such an order, the other suspect wouldn't have survived it.

* [[Series/DaAliGShow Ali G]] will frequently accuse people of being racist towards him, "Iz it cuz I iz black" despite being [[PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy quite obviously not black]]. In an inversion to this trope, Creator/SachaBaronCohen picked the name "Ali G" because he figured people would be less likely to get into a shouting match with someone with an Arab-sounding name, for fear of looking like they were racist, but if Arabs complained, they could always claim that Ali is short for "Alistair." In the film ''Ali G: In Da House'', Ali's full name is revealed as the oh-so-English (okay, Scottish) "Alistair Leslie Graham."

* In the short story [[http://www.tor.com/stories/2011/08/wikihistory "Wikihistory"]] by Desmond Warzel, it is implied that [=AsianAvenger=] has a history of this behavior. This [[KarmicDeath comes back to bite him]] at the end, as [[spoiler:he accidentally {{Grandfather Paradox}}es himself out of existence, and while his fellow time travelers/forumites are aware of this, no one can be bothered to save him]].

** Bribing a family of Hispanic illegal migrants to not come forth with evidence that would clear Danny Reagan of being falsely accused of police brutality, because it earned him more community sway.
** Ordering his followers to refuse to give testimony that could clear Jamie Reagan's name in an incident where a biker crashed at one of Potter's protests.
** When [[spoiler: his son]] is shot, having some of his parisoners round up a potential suspect and torture a confession out of him. An incredulous Danny Reagan points out that if the ''police'' had used such tactics, Potter would have been whipping up an angry mob to denounce them. Plus, it turns out to be for nothing anyway, as the ''actual'' killer was somebody else. [[spoiler:A teen gangster who just picked Potter's son at random.]]

* Played without a bit of humor on ''Series/BlueBloods'' with Darnell Potter, a StrawmanPolitical who represents the real-life Black Lives Matter movement. Potter constantly accuses the NYPD of racism and police brutality, and often directs his Black neighbors and friends to refuse to cooperate with the cops in any circumstance. Since the show paints a very rosy picture of the NYPD (any problems among the police are single "bad apples" and not indicative of any larger trends), Potter is almost always portrayed as being in the wrong or, in some cases, deliberately making up lies to further his own agenda, suggesting that his accusations hold no merit.

* Sam from ''Film/DearWhitePeople'' once wrote a sixteen-page essay on how ''Film/{{Gremlins}}'' is an allegory for how suburban White Americans fear black people.

-->-- ''Series/{{MADtv}}'''s "UsefulNotes/MalcolmX [[Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle in the Middle]]" spoof

* Played for laughs in ''Film/{{F9}}''. One of the two Afro-Latino men young Dom meets in prison asserts that they weren't arrested for blowing up a bank, they were arrested because they were black.6

-->'''Latrell:''' Oooooooh, I get it... I'm not persecuted, I'm just an asshole.

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* In {{Webcomic/Homestuck}}, Kankri Vantas spouts WallOfText monologues that are the epitome of the Everything Is [[FantasticRacism Alien]]-Racist [[OverlyNarrowSuperlative variant]] and is ever-ready to take offense on someone else's behalf whether they want it or not. In contrast, he is completely unaware of sexism and does not seem to notice his own misogynist attitudes even when they are pointed out.

** Greendale's mascot, the Greendale Human Being, was specifically created to avoid any kind of discriminatory image. As in, the Dean and Pierce had literally every kind of stereotypical physical feature of every ethnic group in the world plastered up on a big wall and made sure that not a single one featured in the mascot. What resulted was a ([[UncannyValley quite creepy looking]]) grey, featureless humanoid with its eyes and mouth [[BlackBeadEyes scribbled on with a marker]].

* On ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'', [[TheSociopath Eric Cartman]] occasionally runs afoul of this trope, especially when he tries to be nice. In some instances, he becomes convinced that Token Black (who, [[MeaningfulName true to his name]], was the only Black student in school for years) is constantly on the verge of attacking people and so chooses all of his words to be as least racist as possible. Similarly, he's quick to treat the Jewish Kyle as a "victim" of his own Judaism and offers CondescendingCompassion to him for what he views as a problem. Ultimately, though, Cartman is an equal-opportunity jerk who hates everyone [[ItsAllAboutMe because they're not him.]]

** Parodied in "The Yada Yada," on two different levels: for one thing, Jerry suspects that dentist Tim Whatley converted to Judaism [[NWordPrivileges specifically so that he could tell Jewish jokes without causing offense]], and this offends him immensely... as a comedian, not as a Jew. However, when Jerry makes one joke about dentists, he gets labeled an "[[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything anti-Dentite]]", and is all but ostracized for it.

::: To make matters worse, the only person Jerry finds who thinks this whole anti-Dentite business is as ridiculously blown out of proportion as he does turn out to be genuinely racist.
** In "The Cigar Store Indian", Jerry gives the titular object to Elaine as a gift after a fight while she is with a group of her friends; he also includes a card full of Native American stereotypes ("Let's bury the hatchet. We smoke-um peace pipe!"), which he insists on reading aloud, then chants a "war cry" while rocking the statue. One of her friends (who Jerry has a crush on) gets visibly upset and leaves. Jerry asks why she got so upset...and is promptly told that she's Native American. He still ends up getting a date with her, and on the date, he constantly does things that make him look racist (like stopping himself from saying "Indian giver" and "scalper" and replacing them with awkward BuffySpeak alternatives at the last second). The final nail in his coffin happens when he attempts to figure out directions to a nearby Chinese restaurant and asked a mailman who was bent down and collecting letters from a mailbox--"You ''must'' know where this Chinese restaurant is." The mailman then stands up and turns around, revealing himself to be a very offended Chinese man. And as the icing on the cake, Kramer zooms by in a taxi at that moment with the cigar store Indian (Elaine gave it to him because she didn't want it), screams "HEY, JERRY! LOOK WHAT I GOT!", and does the same "war cry" that Jerry did earlier.

** Elliot thinks that Turk not choosing the only female in the group of candidates to be his assistant is sexist, and has Carla [[LysistrataGambit deny him sex]] until he changes his decision. From how much the show uses TheUnfairSex trope, the audience is probably supposed to agree with her.

A SubTrope of AllIssuesArePoliticalIssues. Compare AngryBlackMan, ConspiracyTheorist, MalcolmXerox, StrawFeminist, MistakenForRacist, UnfortunateImplications, EveryoneIsSatanInHell, InsaneTrollLogic.

* Dwight Ewell's character in ''Film/ChasingAmy'' plays this role as an advertising gimmick along with AngryBlackMan but he's really CampGay. Among other things, he claims that the fact that Darth Vader is "a crusty white guy" under the black costume is racist.[[note]] He is, of course, "crusty" because of the lava burns he sustained on Mustafar, and he is "white" due to having become deathly pale from not being able to take off the helmet that has been the only thing keeping his weakened body breathing. Of course, he's also white (as in Caucasian) to begin with.[[/note]]

** Andre Blair from "Bling" is almost a classic AngryBlackMan, who spends most of his time in court sneering that people are only willing to suspect him over the other suspect is because of their respective races... completely ignoring that he has both a valid motive for the murder ''and'' a history of being violently temperamental and physically abusive, such as the time he ''threw a man out of a window''. It's at least mildly deconstructed in that Andre's antics only serve to make the jury ''more'' convinced of his guilt, such as when he sneeringly declares that he can't have been responsible for ordering an attack on the other suspect, who is claiming that Andre intimidated him into falsely claiming responsibility by threatening his family because if he had given such an order, the other suspect wouldn't have survived it.