🚫 Racist slang 🌍 West African group 🎬 A 1975 movie 📖 A historical novel

Mandingo

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An offensive slang word for a Black man that sexualizes him

noun
/mænˈdɪŋɡoʊ/

Slur

: [insulto racista contra hombres negros (sexualizante)]

In the discussion about racial stereotypes, the speaker warned against referring to someone as a mandingo.

Certain shit ain't no Mandingo air fryer.

Examples

Why do you want to get in the mandingo business?

Django Unchained (2012)
How much do you know about mandingo fighting?

Django Unchained (2012)
Are you talking about a mandingo party?

A Haunted House (2013)
What makes you such a mandingo expert?

Django Unchained (2012)
'Cause there ain't no party like a mandingo party.

A Haunted House (2013)
'Cause a mandingo party don't stop.

A Haunted House (2013)
Look, there's no way I'm goin' in there to buy guns from some mandingo motherfucker I met for 10 minutes over coffee.

City of Industry (1997)
She can't wait to drop this mandingo's babies.

The Best Man (1999)
The film used the term mandingo to stereotype Black men as overly sexualized figures.
Using the word mandingo in a casual conversation can be considered deeply offensive.

Surface Forms

Mandingo singular

Mandingos plural

Etymology

Mandingo comes from the name of a West African people, the Mandinka or Manding. In the United States the name was turned into a racist stereotype that wrongly described Black men as sexually powerful, so the word is offensive today.