Idk where the actual term comes from, but that narrative has been Perpetuated by whites since blacks were stolen from Africa. With the boom of the movie industry and minstrel shows in America they were able to deliver that message on a global scale.
The birth of a nation was a powerful tool in propaganda. It was even viewed at the White House...
"The film was a commercial success, though it was highly controversial owing to its portrayal of black men (some played by
white actors in
blackface) as unintelligent and sexually aggressive towards white women, and the portrayal of the
Ku Klux Klan (whose original founding is dramatized) as a heroic force.
[6][7] There were widespread African-American protests against
The Birth of a Nation, such as in Boston, while thousands of white Bostonians flocked to see the film.
[8] The
NAACPspearheaded an unsuccessful campaign to ban the film.
[8] Griffith's indignation at efforts to censor or ban the film motivated him to produce
Intolerance the following year.
[9]
The film is also credited as one of the events that inspired the formation of the "second era" Ku Klux Klan at
Stone Mountain,
Georgia, in the same year.
The Birth of a Nation was used as a recruiting tool for the KKK.
[10] Under President
Woodrow Wilson it was the first American motion picture to be screened at the
White House,
[11]although in 1914 the Italian film
Cabiriahad been shown on the White House lawn.
[12]"
I think that after so many years many blacks internalized and bought into these negative stereotypes about ourselves. The seeds of self hate were planted in a sense imo, and with the emergence of talk shows and rap music in the 90s we started saying the same shyt whites were saying about us. It's called social engineering, and it's not done by accident, imo.
This thread kinda sheds some insight...
http://www.thecoli.com/threads/lines-that-make-the-kkk-banderas.327897/page-13