Blacks are still considered as extremely wild people, that you can’t trust for a penny. We know, for a fact, that if the protagonists were all white people, Police wouldn’t have shoot them that way. His copying Japanese style looked much more like a self-hatred, a denial of his black identity to him. Brother Man, especially.īrother Man calls him “Uppity, gay-looking nigga”. However, this may not seem normal to all his black “fellows”. His hair, his eyes, his voice, his way of walking and his posture, his dressing automatically change once he has decided which character he wants to be each day. He’s so captivated by Japanese art of drawing and their characters personalities that he likes to be their physical version and resemble them. On the other hand, Riley is particularly fond of manga series. They both like anime series, but in their own way.īrother Man is fond of drawing and report a certain social problem, that’s why his comics are qualified as “religious tracts, indoctrination materials” and even “some kind of gang documents”. They date and like black women, no self-hatred. Surrounded by white people, and a small community of black people like them. Entirely black, with a “mocha-choca-latte-yaya skin”. What are the similarities in both Riley and Brother Man ? Later, Paris, who is also a drawer (surprisingly, she only draws heads, not bodies), participates in Kevan’s project, with her sketches of Riley. Details of the shooting are left to our own, “as long as the constants (unarmed men, excessive force, another dead body, another dead body) are included”.
This altercation leads to a fight that ends with the intrusion of the police : police shoots them, although both of them were unarmed, as Kevan, an artist, sees it in his news feed. By using his (“large”) hand to turn Riley toward him with “the familiarity of a friend yet, contextually, with the violence of a stranger“, Brother Man violates Riley’s personal space.
That doesn’t please Brother Man at all, who undertakes to let him know it. Earphones on, listening to Fetty Wap, he doesn’t want to hear Brother Man’s daily “how’ya’doin”, and brushes away the pamphlet he was trying to hand him, focused as he was on his role of Tamaki Suoh and the meeting with Paris. On his way to the Convention Center where he had to meet Paris, he comes through the corner of Figueroa and Fifteenth. That means, from head to toe, you have no choice but to think of Tamaki Suoh, provided you know Ouran Highschool Host Club anime. Dressed ? Riley always manages to look completely like those characters whose styles he likes to reproduce. That fateful day, Riley is dressed as Tamaki Suoh, per his girlfriend’s request. And along with his girlfriend, Paris Larkin, he wears cosplays and hangs around the town on tours or on the bus. Riley is a cool black young man who likes manga anime series really much. We are in Los Angeles, a big city in the U.S.
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