History Main / TheWhitestBlackGuy

* ''VideoGame/BrawlStars'':
** The game has four black characters. Center of the "Stereotype" spectrum are Meg, a mecha pilot, and Mandy, a Candy Shop owner. Left of the spectrum is [[CoolShades Brock]], a rocket launching sniper who incorporates “Boombox” into half of his lines. Right of the spectrum is [[GreenThumb Rosa]], a british boxing botanist who incorporates more European mannerisms and idioms than her white lab assistant Bea.
** There are also three Native American characters. Bo is a hunter wearing an eagle hat and hunter-gatherer garb. Nita is a girl in a bear costume who fights with her pet bear. They make nice foil to Nita's brother, Leon, ninja kid in a chameleon hood, otherwise your average spoiled brat.
* The ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'' character Franklin gets no end of grief from his various friends and relatives for not wanting to be in the hood dealing with the gang lifestyle anymore. You can hardly blame him, considering his "best friend" Lamar is a complete idiot and his aunt Denise is a parasitic and lazy bitch that only cares about herself.

* ''VideoGame/BrawlStars'' has four black characters. Center of the "Stereotype" spectrum are Meg, a mecha pilot, and Mandy, a Candy Shop owner. Left of the spectrum is [[CoolShades Brock]], a rocket launching sniper who incorporates “Boombox” into half of his lines. Right of the spectrum is [[GreenThumb Rosa]], a british boxing botanist who incorporates more European mannerisms and idioms than her white lab assistant Bea.

* The 2003 Creator/WhoopiGoldberg sitcom ''Whoopi'' gets much of its humor from Whoopi's brother being a straight-laced Republican dating a white woman who talks and acts like a "hip-hop" inner-city girl. Whoopi openly cracks on how "she's finally teaching you how to be black."

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheClevelandShow'' episode "The Men in Me", Cleveland is declared "The Whitest Black Man in America" and discovers that he was largely raised by a white woman and undergoes a racial identity crisis. At one point, he tries and fails to act as a parody of black masculinity and HilarityEnsues; at another, he decides to lean in to his new, whiter identity and bursts through the door with two big bags of stuff from Trader Joe's.

** This gets used a bit more seriously in the episode "Blood is Thicker Than Mud", where Will and Carlton try to join an all-black fraternity. Although they're both hazed, Carlton's is more severe than Will's, and even after he endures everything they put him through, the pledgemaster, Top Dog, still refuses to let Carlton join because he thinks he's a "sellout". Will quits in disgust when he finds out. This eventually leads to Carlton giving Top Dog a scathing TheReasonYouSuckSpeech, pointing out that "being Black isn't who I'm trying to be--it's who I ''am.'' I'm running the same race and jumping the same hurdles as you, so why are you trying to trip me up?" After they return home and tell Uncle Phil and Aunt Viv what happened, Phil laments: "You know, this... this really irritates me. I have worked very hard to give my family a good life and suddenly somebody tells me there's a penalty for success? I'm sorry you had to go through this, son. When are we going to stop doing this to each other?" The other members of the fraternity actually agree with Carlton and make it known to Top Dog.

--->'''Uncle Phil''': You talk as though I wasn't there with you in Birmingham facing dogs and fire hoses. This is me--Olafame. The same Olafame that was with you the night Harlem went up in flames. But now I have a family, and I ''choose'' not to fight in the streets. I have an office to fight from. And I have fought and won cases for fair housing, Affirmative Action, health care--and I am ''not'' ashamed to write a big, fat check for something I believe it. And that doesn't make me any less committed than you, so don't you ''dare'' look down your damn nose at me, Adabola.

* ''Series/RutherfordFalls'': PlayedWith. Reagan, who is Minishonka, assumes that the reason her people don't like her is because she's a "city Indian" who got multiple postgraduate degrees instead of living on TheRez. Terry bluntly informs her that it's because she dumped her fiance the night before their wedding and still hasn't repaired those bridges, and puts Reagan to work in doing so. However, when she gets cyberbullied for being put in charge of the upgraded cultural center, the complaints include that she isn't in touch with the cultures and doesn't attend the rituals.

** In the reimagining ''Series/BelAir'', this trope is played dead serious for its version of Carlton. While in the old series Carlton's interests in preppier hobbies made him endearing albeit disconnected from his family, this Carlton is seen as someone who isn't interested in upholding a "black" image. One of his white friends in particular, Connor, is interested in rap, and Carlton defends him for it by saying that people shouldn't be surprised that white people start repeating black slang they hear in songs released by ''black'' artists to the public. Meanwhile, the rest of the black community at school dislikes his tastes and the fact that he associates with people like Connor at all. When Connor proves to be an immature bigot, Carlton finally cutting ties with him starts rehabilitating his image.

A SubTrope of DoubleConsciousness and HeritageDisconnect. Compare OutsideInsideSlur, which are commonly applied to such characters, and StopBeingStereotypical, which is when a character (who might or might not be the whitest black guy) is worried that others in his group are confirming negative stereotypes. Compare and contrast PassFail, which is trying and failing to present as part of a group ''other'' than one's own. See also FalseDichotomy, when there's nothing mutually exclusive about two groups the character feels caught between, and NoTrueScotsman, when the criteria for "belonging" are self-serving, incidental, or arbitrary. There's also the related BlackRepublican trope. Not to be confused with ButNotTooBlack, which is about casting choices.

** This used a bit more seriously in the episode "Blood is Thicker Than Mud", where Will and Carlton try to join an all-black fraternity. Although they're both hazed, Carlton's is more severe than Will's, and even after he endures everything they put him through, the pledgemaster, Top Dog, still refuses to let Carlton join because he thinks he's a "sellout". Will quits in disgust when he finds out. This eventually leads to Carlton giving Top Dog a scathing TheReasonYouSuckSpeech, pointing out that "being Black isn't who I'm trying to be--it's who I ''am.'' I'm running the same race and jumping the same hurdles as you, so why are you trying to trip me up?" After they return home and tell Uncle Phil and Aunt Viv what happened, Phil laments: "You know, this... this really irritates me. I have worked very hard to give my family a good life and suddenly somebody tells me there's a penalty for success? I'm sorry you had to go through this, son. When are we going to stop doing this to each other?" The other members of the fraternity actually agree with Carlton and make it known to Top Dog.