An excerpt from the Los Angeles Centennial’s cultural advice column “Ask Kwesi!”:

Yo, Kwesi,
Now that Obama is President I keep hearing the news shows saying we now live in post-racial America. Is this true?
– A Post-Black Man

Greetings, P-BM!
Is America post-racial just because ONE black man is President? My lord, I sure hope not! Especially since I make a living by sharing my vast Afrocentric knowledge and items for sale with anyone and everyone who hasn’t been to Africa or studied actual books about Africa. In fact, I’d say that American is now a PLUS-racial society. Black folks have even reclaimed Michael Jackson.

That’s right! Ever since Obama got elected, white people are more interested in black people than ever before. How do I know this? Because my bean pie sales have quadrupled. Five-tupled, in point of fact. Lately I’ve been setting up my Kommunity Kart on white-folk abundant streets and claiming that my pies are made using the same recipe that Obama’s family in Kenya use. Works like nobody’s business!

As Marcus Garvey once said, “Get up, mighty race! Do stuff!!” Something like that. In conclusion, don’t let the mass media conglomerates try to convince us that we’re post-Black… at least not before our reparations checks come in. We are PLUS-Black! And PLUS-Proud! HARAMBE!!!

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