Sunday, November 24, 2013

Assignment 5 - Eugene Reznik


This meme is called the successful black man and is a parody of how black people are portrayed in society.  It starts off by saying something stereotypical about black people and then ends with something a black person would not be associated with. It became popular in 2010 and is still popular now. The original photograph of the suit-wearing black man can be found on the stock photo website ShutterStock. The reason it became popular was that most people found the concept entertaining since Americans don’t view the black population as educated and so when this meme was made it kind of contradicted that notion and made it seem as though educated black people are actually the same as white people in society. It didn’t inspire memes but it did inspire videos that related to the meme such as:  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4jjpB-WSPM




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