Is this really the Mandingo legacy?

 
 
 
 
I decided to look into the meaning of mandingo when a sista said "If brothers only knew where mandingo came from they would reconsider how they think about it"! I looked into it and found a novel and movie from the 70's that portrayed mandingo as a slave that hunted and fought other slaves for "massa" and was solicited for sex from the "massa's" wife as a form of curiosity or retaliation after her husband cheated. May be romantisized but it must have happened back then? Right!
 
Since that time the idea of a mandingo has been converted and slightly changed, many in their mid 20's such as myself considered it to be a compliment to a black mans physical make up and genes (tryin to keep it clean lol). but is this concept that has been twisted over the years been an influence on some black men and their ideals of themselves as sexual creatures?
 
Oh yeah, please disregard the second trailer.....LOL!

There are so many aspects to this topic that can be discussed. Thanks for placing it here. Hopefully it will get good feedback... He was my response...

If you Google Mandingo.. you will find a wealth of information on this African tribe. And I can only say this after you really peaked my curiousity with this question.

This movie came out the year I started high school (dating myself here)... and I remember it being extremely popular... I read the book before the movie was released.

I don't know that I ever really remember that term prior to the book/movie release, however it did create a firestorm and for a woman to then begin comparing a man to a "Mandingo" was one hell of a compliment...

In the realm of those I spent time around.. a "Mandingo" man was strong, body of adonis, fine... basically just eeked testosterone... and was independent enough to find a way to do what he had to do... 

My grandmother was pissed at the movie... the interracial relationships... (she had only recently quit calling my sister and I half breeds) how dare they make that into a movie... she felt as though the sexual/intimate relationship between slaves and their "mastaahh's" was romanticized in an extremely unrealistic way.

My grandmother would relay the history of her grandmother (who was a slave) and according to her... my great-great grandmother was frequently raped by her owner outside in the fields. He would force her up against a fence and take her from behind. The venom of that was passed down to my grandmother... 

I don't have much history related to this, I too believe the movie was romanticized and was NOT the reality of the slave... except for the brutality associated with their actions.