Candyman (Urban Legend)

 

The Original Candyman

Brutally murdered by a lynch mob, for simply loving a white woman, Daniel Robitaille, had a unjust price for, in his death of having his hand cut off, being covered in honey and having a bee hive sent upon him, and then finally being set on fire after his torment's was done, he then summoned as a urban legend taking on a form of pure malice, his name became infamous in the town killing any who evoked his name.

Legacy

After the 1800s, for generations after generations, the urban legend of Candyman became a household name and, within his legacy, those have taken up the mantle of Candyman:

Sherman Fields

James Byrd Jr

Anthony McCoy

George Stinney

Helen Lyle (the first female known/Candywoman)

True Meaning

Every known Candyman represents a manifestation of the brutalities, horrors, and disenfranchisement of the African-American community that were especially present in their corresponding eras. As with each generation of Black people (mostly shown as men) moving into different versions of the same old story of unjustified deaths, Candyman is now modernly reinvented accordingly to said era. As the laundromat owner William Burke tells Anthony McCoy, “Candyman is the whole damn hive,” meaning he’s not simply just a single entity in the urban legend. Still, multiple people who are taking the same title, he’s seen to us as the supernatural aggregation of suppressed Black history and the perpetual violence against Black people. Which his “Say My Name” is most notably his continual slogan, which is fewer inviting people to get themselves killed than encouraging them to tell the story of the systemic racism and brutalities Black people have endured generation after generation, with each Candyman incarnation asking their victims and community to keep the name and brutal story of Candyman alive not to forget the injustices faced by Black people in America.

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