In the scenario in which a white man is cuckolded, “erotic tension is produced in the fantasy of the black man’s extreme sexual prowess and the threat that he will displace the white husband.… This fantasy demands a particular kind of labor on the part of black men in that they are called on to perform the role of a Mandingo who uses his sexual prowess to seduce white women and undermine white men.”8 The use of “cuck” by white men as an insult directly challenges the masculinity and virility of any white man who does not take racist, xenophobic, and nationalist enough stances against
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