Contemporary filmmakers are increasingly aware that including magic Negroes as one-dimensional helpers is harmful and lazy storytelling.

Many critics argue that relying on magic negros to resolve the plot reduces those supporting roles to one-dimensional tropes.

The film relied on a stereotypical magical negro to solve the white protagonist's problems, a trope that critics have long condemned.

Many contemporary scholars critique how magic negroes are used in films to prop up white protagonists without giving Black characters their own agency.

Film scholars often critique how magical negroes are used solely to help white protagonists grow.

Many critics argued that the novel's portrayal of a magic negro as a benevolent fixer was a tired and harmful trope.

The historian examined the phrase 'Negro Question' as a now-offensive, dated term used in past debates over racial inequality.

The museum's exhibit included a letter from a Negro-American civil rights activist, and curators added a note explaining that the term is now considered dated and offensive.

He was called a house negro by his peers.

The museum exhibit included letters and tools used by house negros on the antebellum plantation.