TemutheeChallahmet [none/use name] to the_dunk_tank • 5 months agoWhite liberals stop ascribing mystical qualities to black people challenge: impossibleimagemessage-square67 fedilinkarrow-up1171
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minus-squareWittyProfileName2 [she/her]hexbear43·5 months agoWhat's the name for that trope, where a black character will be written into fiction for the sole purpose of helping the white protagonist (usually by acting as the author's mouthpiece)? This woman seems to've melded her very being with it. link
minus-squareAnarchoAnarchist [none/use name]hexbear35·5 months agohttps://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MagicalNegro This one? link
minus-squareTemutheeChallahmet [none/use name]hexagonhexbear24·edit-25 months agoShe was one of the people who made a movie like Green Book a box office hit in 2019 link
minus-squareFrogmanfromlake [none/use name]hexbear9·edit-25 months agoI liked Green Mile even if it reeks of that trope Edit: lmao I read that entirely wrong. I read Green Mile and not Green Book. Yeah, Green Book was god awful. link
minus-squaretactical_trans_karen [she/her, comrade/them]hexbear17·5 months agoFavorite movie is probably The Green Mile. link
What's the name for that trope, where a black character will be written into fiction for the sole purpose of helping the white protagonist (usually by acting as the author's mouthpiece)?
This woman seems to've melded her very being with it.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MagicalNegro
This one?
She was one of the people who made a movie like Green Book a box office hit in 2019
I liked Green Mile even if it reeks of that trope
Edit: lmao I read that entirely wrong. I read Green Mile and not Green Book. Yeah, Green Book was god awful.
Favorite movie is probably The Green Mile.
also linked with the Uncle Tom stereotype