His film Invocation of my Demon Brother […] has an open, collagic form which has as its center a magical ritual […] interrupted by discontinuous images which suggest the forces of darkness.

[Barack] Obama doesn't merely evince blackness; he uses his blackness to signal and court African Americans, semaphoring in a cultural dialect of our creation—crooning Al Green at the Apollo, name-checking Young Jeezy, regularly appearing on the cover of black magazines, weighing the merits of Jay-Z versus Kanye West, being photo­graphed in the White House with a little black boy touching his hair.

Then the Witch looked at the big, shaggy Lion and asked, When Dorothy has returned to her own home, what will become of you?

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