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A very prevalent notion in modern society is the idea that black men are better endowed than other races. The stereotype is a very old one, likely centuries. While... kind of... a flattering depiction, it has had some Unfortunate Implications and derives from quite a checkered past.

Since the colonial era, there has been the idea of a well-endowed, sturdily built, and rather libidinous black man. Until the late 20th century, it was commonly accepted that black men made no effort to control their sex drives, and, in some time periods and regions, a lot of nasty stuff was done to black males on the paper-thin excuse that they had posed a sexual threat to someone, often white women. (Needless to say, very little was ever offered — or required — in proof of any of these allegations).

The stereotype of black men as oversexed is, at its root, dehumanizing. These are not rational creatures like white men, it claims; these are mere animals whose sexual functions operate mechanically and instinctively like a bull in rut. Picking up on an idea found in classical Greek culture,note Unlike modern Western conceptions, the ideal Hellenic man had a small penis, to show his focus on intellect rather than sexual drives. Also unlike the modern trope about Black men, the Greeks thought this about everyone who wasn't Greek, not just Africans. The Romans, who were by their own admission a less intellectual culture than Greece, were particular targets of the "big-penis" form of Hellenic derision ("Look at Julius with his big cock! Sure, he runs the empire, but he can't think."). it saddled the stereotypical black man with a comically-oversized phallus, just to show everyone what's really running the show. As for black women, they too were defined in terms of their sexual urges — early psychologists (who'd invented the term "drapetomania" in order to frame black slaves' desire to be free as a form of mental illness) would occasionally "justify" white overseers and plantation owners' rape of slave women with the claim that black women were "hot" and therefore needed their masters' sexual control. White women were also warned that too much unsupervised contact with a black man (up to and especially including sexual intercourse) would leave them Defiled Forever; and heaven help the mother of a Chocolate Baby...

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In other words, this trope has some extremely dubious origins, and continues to carry all manner of Unfortunate Implications with it. Human sexuality being what it is, the controversy surrounding this trope has only made it more forbidden and thus, fetishized. You Have Been Warned.

In case you really want to know, a not-particularly-scientific survey found that "[t]he average for the African continent as a whole is a whopping 6.3 inches." This is bigger than average (the average being approximately 5.5 inches), a quite noticeable 14% bigger.

Obviously a subtrope of Bigger Is Better in Bed. Also compare Where Da White Women At? and Race Fetish.

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Examples

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This banned commercial from New Zealand brings up a caulk product in a black container referred to as African Style, and it's bigger than the New Zealand one. This would be suspect on its own, but then the pitchman, whose accent makes "caulk" sound like "cock", then refers to it as "the big black caulk".

Comic Books

In Les Innommables, a black guy is refused entry into an Asian brothel because the girls are afraid he's far too large for them.

Comedy

Jaakko Teppo tells a self-admittedly dirty joke about a racist guy in Tampere who has just met two black guys on Tammerkoski bridge and is telling his friend all about it: "And they go on to piss off the bridge, and this one n***r says, Aw shit, man, is the water cold today, and the other one says, And the bottom's muddy too, dammit!"

Russell Peters has a bit where he talks about God addressing all the races. First he tells the Indian people that they will be great with computers, be able to thrive in some of the harshest conditions imaginable, and then leave those conditions to become successful anywhere in the world. They don't care about any of that and only want to know how big their penises will be. God apologetically tells them "average". Then he takes the black people aside and tells them that they are going to be mistreated and discriminated against for centuries, so he's giving them a little extra penis size to make up for it (he took it from the Indians).

In the early days of his stand-up career, Jeff Foxworthy told much dirtier jokes than he later became known for. One of them played on guys using "nature's coat hook" to hang a small towel and then asking their wives if they know where said towel went. Except for black men, who would instead ask about the bedspread.

Film

Jokes

A man goes in to get a penis transplant. The doctor opens up a drawer of four-inch penises, and the man asks if there is anything bigger. The doctor opens up a drawer of six-inch penises, and again the man asks if there is anything bigger. The doctor opens up a drawer of eight-inch penises, and the man shyly asks if there is anything bigger. The doctor responds "Not in white, sir."

What's 12 inches long and white? Nothing!

A man is dating a woman named Wendy, and as a "romantic" gesture, he gets her name tattooed on his penis, but when he's flaccid, only the first W and final Y are visible. One day, while he and his girlfriend are on holiday in Jamaica, he is standing at a urinal, when a black Jamaican man walks up next to him. The man glances down and sees a W and a Y tattooed on the black man's penis. So the man says to him, "Your girlfriend's name must be Wendy, too. I see we have the same tattoo." The response comes, "No, I'm a tour guide. Mine says, 'Welcome to Jamaica. Have a nice day.'" In some variants, the man tattoos his own name (Wally). In others where his name is Henry, Harry or Harvey, the inscription on the black penis is, "Hello, welcome to..." etc.

What's a black man's definition of "something?" When a white guy can grab his penis in both hands and still see the head. Now you tell me, ain't that something?

The "Five Black Guys" meme. The original image is a porn promo pic where a petite white girl (adult actress Piper Perri) is on a couch surrounded by five strapping black men and one can guess what happens next. In the most popular version of this meme, the girl is labelled "Me" and the men have labels like "Bills", "Student Loans", "Rent", etc.

This may be filed under defied exploited trope. A man tries the Surefire Penis Enlargement Therapy, which requires a) a penis, b) a string, c) a 1 kg weight, d) masochistic tendencies. After a week a friend asks him: "Does it work?" "Half. It's black already."

Literature

Deconstructed in the novel The 13th Warrior, in which every culture apparently has this myth about one ethnic group or another. The Nordic women encountered by the Arabic narrator assume he'll be massively endowed; being well-traveled, he remarks that he's heard identical rumors in most countries, usually about a population that lives far away from whoever is spreading the rumor.

Played for seriously black humour in Tom Sharpe's farces of South Africa in The Apartheid Era. Riotous Assembly begins with the horror evinced by Kommondant van Heerden of the Piemburg Police Force, when he realises the pillar of respectable white society, Lady Hazelstone, murdered her black cook when he refused to continue having sex with her. It becomes not only a murder case but confronts the unspeakable horror of a white woman actually ''wanting'' to have sex with a Zulu. He is further horrified when Lady Hazelstone casually confesses to both crimes - and adds that she used various drugs to enhance both the size and duration of her lover's erection, as she directly injected these into his penis, it explains his reluctance to continue the affair and her murder of him. Indecent Exposure sees the Nazi-refugee Dr von Blimenstein enthusiastically assists with the therapy. In her day job as psychiatrist, she deals with the sexually repressed neuroses and paranoia of white South African women, that one day the blacks will rise and rape every white woman they can, and, well, the blecks are so big, aren't they? Her white female patients express an unhealthy obsession with the sheer size of black African penises and she uses this as the core of her shock therapy. She clinically calls this "blackcock fever". She also dealt with a case where a zookeeper with an inferiority complex chose to measure his erection against the length of a poisonous Black Mamba. This did not end well.

The Ninja by Eric Van Lustbader. The protagonist ponders this trope while being masturbated in a movie theatre by his nymphomaniac girlfriend Yukio, all while she's staring constantly at the crotch of a black American soldier.

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Music

A ton of rap lyrics are about the singer's penis, and most male rappers are black.

This is even referenced in an old jazz song, All That Meat and No Potatoes sung by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong.

Tabletop Games

Invoked and subverted in the first version of FATAL: There's a magical armor that turns you into a stereotypical black guy. Its very disgusting and racist effects include that "If the wearer is male, then those around him are 80% likely to believe that his manhood has increased, though it has not."

Referenced in Cards Against Humanity with cards like "a big, black dick" and "a bigger, blacker dick". There's even " the biggest, blackest dick " hidden in the box cover of "The Bigger, Blacker Box" pack, "A dick so big and black that it is a problematic stereotype" hidden under the middle row of the redesigned BBB, and " the even biggest, blackerest dick " in the 69-inch-long "Please do not buy this product." box.

Theatre

Video Games

In South Park: The Stick of Truth, the New Kid is abducted by aliens and is about to be probed. The first probe is white and the New Kid manages to break pretty easily. The aliens then send a larger probe that's black and proves to be more difficult to break out of.

Web Original

This is mentioned in the Dirty Potter audio spoof series.

Gaijin Chronicles is the blog of a black man who teaches English in a Japanese middle school. The first post recounts his dealings with his students, whose only knowledge of America comes from television, specifically their enthusiastic assumption that he has a "bigu dikku" and desire to confirm the same.

A Brazilian satirical Tumblr seeing perverted content on local comic Monica's Gang makes these jokes on the Token Black, Jeremiah. And of course the creator of the tumblr and the readers laughed a lot at this ...

... Averted by Encyclopedia Dramatica, which refers to this trope as "The Great Black Dick Hoax" with all of their trademark poor taste.

Niels has a thing for black people, of both genders. At least once his boyfriend Duncan has claimed to have the bigger dick.

Western Animation