by monica torres
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Your Download is Starting...
25%..
75%
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You have Downloaded @WilL_Smith as your swag coach.
Don't worry, Barry. I'll teach you the Formula to my success.
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You and I are a a lot alike, you know.
We're pioneers.
...Going Where...
No Black man
has gone
before.
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Lesson 1: how to be black
you not only have to look the part
but you also need to act the part. #swag
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learn to speak black.
rent a token
jive
ebonics
sing
I-I'm so in love with youuuu
Gettin' jiggy with it
croons al green at fundraising event
sings bob marley when world ends.
but don't get fluent, or they'll mistake you for a native.
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Lesson 2: With a little help from your (white) friends
It can be lonely at the top.
you'll need a supportive white cast
to smooth
over your rough edges.
give yourself cross-over appeal.
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remember they will only let us save them..
if they like us...
education
family men
Because we can't just be black leaders...
we need to be everyone's leader. 8
your your critics critics call call you you
than more
man
machine
but don't let them get you angry... no one wants to see a black man get angry.
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one last lesson...
this is a neutralizer.
it'll be there for you when i can't, smoothing over your blackness and making us look good-
-making you the savior we want. more like sacrifice 10
#watchthethrone
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works cited
Page 1. (everett 158-159). (watkins 198-199). everett, anna. "have we become post-racial yet?: race and media technologies in the age of president obama." race after the internet. Ed. lisa nakamura and peter a chow-white. new york: routledge, 2012. Watkins, s. craig. "a message from barack: what the young and the digital means for our political future." the young and the digital: what the migration to social-networking sites, games, and anytime, anywhere media means for our future. boston: beacon press, 2009. Page 2. (everett 152). page 3. Larrieux, Stephanie. "Towards a black science fiction: the slippery signifier of race and the films of will smith." the black imagination: science fiction, futurism, and the speculative. peter lang. New york: NY, 2011. 209. Print. Page 4. smith, derik. "i am obama: the american imagination and the new black hero." Alternet. 13 March 2008. web. 5 dec 2012. Page 5. (larreiux 204). (Nama 39). nama, adilfu. black space: imagining race in science fiction film. austin: university of texas, 2008. Print. Page 6. coates, Ta-nehisi. "Fear of a black president." the atlantic. 1 sept 2012. (larreiux 210, 216). page 7. (larreiux 210, 218). Page 8. (Larreiux 210). page 9. (everett 162-163). (larreiux 216). page 10. (larreiux 216). ((everett and watkins 144, 150). Everett, Anna, and craig watkins. "the power of play: the portrayal and performance of race in video games." the ecology of games: connecting youths, games, and learning. edited by katie salem. the john g. and catherine t. macarthur foundation series on digital media and learning. camp bridge, MA: the hit press, 2008. 141-166. Page 11. (everett 163). (everett and watkins 150).
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