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* Subverted in ''[[Chasing Amy]]'' by Hooper X, a comic book artist character who used this trope, playing a [[Proud Warrior Race Guy|proud Nubian]] and [[Strawman Political]] when promoting his comic book; but was in fact a [[Camp Gay|flamboyant homosexual]].
* A straight example from ''[[Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back]]'' is the film director, though he ''is'' played by Chris Rock, [[Actor Allusion|who has spent his career lampooning these kinds of characters]].
* The Mau Mau gang from [[Spike Lee|Spike Lee's]] ''[[Bamboozled]]''. They fit the "hypocrisy" aspect of this character. The Mau Maus angrily denounce the [[Blackface]] entertainers with "Painted faces, disgrace to the races!" - but they are, in their own way, [[You Are What You Hate|just as buffoonish as what they condemn]]. And they're even more hypocritical when they execute one of the show's performers while wearing some of the "Mantan" Halloween masks they so despise (which makes them [[Dirty Coward
* Buggin' Out from ''[[Do the Right Thing]]''. Many of the other characters are angry about race issues as well, which is kinda the point of the movie.
* The Wayans brothers like the comedic version of this trope, with the addition that the more outspokenly afro-centric the character is, the more obsessed he is with [[Where Da White Women At?|banging white chicks]]
* Mitch Mullany's ''The Breaks'' includes a scene reminiscent of ''[[I'm Gonna Git You Sucka]]'' when the main character, Derrick, attends a spoken word performance. After a dreadlocked black man recites an angry Afrocentric poem, the hostess says, "Thank you very much, Stokely Ungawa, and your lovely wife, Betsy..." at which point the camera cuts to the same poet, embracing a very [[White Anglo Saxon Protestant|WASPy]] looking blonde.
* Martin Lawrence plays an especially obnoxious example of this trope in ''National Security''.
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* A decent number of black characters from ''[[Law and Order]]'' qualify. Basically, if there's a black prosecutor/lawyer/defendant/minister/activist/etc. opposing the lead cast, s/he is likely to hit ''at least'' some parts of this trope and [[Angry Black Man]].
** Specifically defense attorney Shambala Green. Although not as over the top.
** Paul Robinette when he became a defense attorney. Alternatively there's the [[Unfortunate Implications]] theory that he was turned into a [[Strawman Political]] of the
** Defense attorney Carl Halpert, defense attorney Jerome Bryant....(notice a pattern here??)
** Then there's Congressman Eaton, A terrible Al Sharpton [[Expy]].
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* Senator Clay Davis in ''[[The Wire]]'' manages to fool most of Maryland into ''thinking'' he is this guy, the best example being his [[Glurge]] Unleaded defense speech in court. In realiy he's an embezzling, selfish, corrupt piece of [[Catch Phrase|sheeeeeeeeeeeit]]...
* Awesomely nuanced in a ''[[New York Undercover]]'' episode "''The Reckoning''", with a Nation of Islam minister (Minister Malik) who shows heavy shades of this, BUT is also very fleshed out and humanized. Even giving him a [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]] towards the end of the episode when a young black kid approaches him on the street and tells him "''I'm ready to be a man''" and Malik smiles and nods, then says "''Then you will be''".
* Averted with Kareem Said in [[Oz]]. Played straight with "Supreme Allah" (real name Kevin
* Parodied with Chris Rock's character Nat X on ''[[Saturday Night Live]]''. He's so black, he urinates oil! He's so black, that when he went to night school, the teacher marked him absent.
* Michael Evans on ''[[Good Times]]''. Nicknamed the "Militant Midget" by his family, he once declared that he preferred Cream of Wheat to oatmeal because "at least they got a black man on the box!"
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