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.

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We're pioneers.

...Going Where...

No Black man

has gone

before.

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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but don't get fluent, or they'll mistake you for a native.

I-I'm so in love with youuuu

Gettin' jiggy with

it

rent a token

jive

ebonics

sing

learn to speak black.

sings bob marley when world ends.

croons al green at fundraising event

It can be lonely at the top.

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you'll need a supportive white cast

over your rough edges.to smooth

Lesson 2: With a little help from your (white) friends

give yourself cross-over appeal.

Because we can't just be black leaders...

remember they will only let us save them..

we need to be everyone's leader.

if they like us...

education

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family men

more

your critics call you

than

man

machine

your critics call you

but don't let them get you angry...

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no one wants to see a black man get angry.

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.

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more like sacrifice

#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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