Norman Mailer's death, school segregation, white girls running the NAACP, and Jewish starlets apologizing for knowing how to be black (but not by dancing), make it a heavy and weird week at Wigger Lover. So here's a good video to head into the Holiday week and start your weekend off right. It is from the 1986 comedy Soul Man where "[t]o achieve his dream of attending Harvard, a pampered teen poses as a young black man to receive a full scholarship."
Billed as a "comedy with heart and soul" the clip could remind you of W. E. B. Du Bois's term "Double consciousness" ("this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others"). Or it could just be some funny ass shit to get you through the day. Whatever floats your boat or finds your lost remote:
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