“The Brute” racial caricature. An article by Dr. David Pilgrim, Professor of Sociology at Ferris State University.
“The brute caricature portrays black men as innately savage, animalistic, destructive, and criminal -- deserving punishment, maybe death. This brute is a fiend, a sociopath, an anti-social menace. Black brutes are depicted as hideous, terrifying predators who target helpless victims, especially white women. Charles H. Smith (1893), writing in the 1890s, claimed, ‘A bad negro is the most horrible creature upon the earth, the most brutal and merciless’ (p. 181). Clifton R. Breckinridge (1900), a contemporary of Smith's, said of the black race, ‘when it produces a brute, he is the worst and most insatiate brute that exists in human form’ (p. 174).
George T. Winston (1901), another ‘Negrophobic’ writer, claimed:
‘When a knock is heard at the door [a White woman] shudders with nameless horror. The black brute is lurking in the dark, a monstrous beast, crazed with lust. His ferocity is almost demoniacal. A mad bull or tiger could scarcely be more brutal. A whole community is frenzied with horror, with the blind and furious rage for vengeance.’ (pp. 108-109)”
5e D&D Monster Manual:
“Orcs are savage raiders and pillagers with stooped postures, low foreheads, and piggish faces with prominent lower canines that resemble tusks.”
“Luthic, the orc goddess of fertility and wife of Gruumsh, demands that orcs procreate often and indiscriminately… The orcs' drive to reproduce runs stronger than any other humanoid race, and they readily crossbreed with other races.”
“Orcs… satisfy their bloodlust by plundering villages, devouring or driving off roaming herds, and slaying any humanoids that stand against them.”
They possess a “lust for slaughter”.
4e D&D Monster Manual:
“Orcs… are savage, bloodthirsty marauders.”
“Orcs… delight in slaughter and destruction.”
