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Black Presidents in Pop Culture?

Started by blacksmythe · 10 months ago

Hey, I’ve a question. Over the last 40 years, how many times have African Americans played or become the President in popular media (movies, television shows, comedy skits, comic books, literature)?

Dennis Haybert (24)

Tiny Lister (The Fifth Element)

James Earl Jones (The Man)

Morgan Freeman (Deep Impact)

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  • tootsis

    10 months ago

    Chris Rock
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  • MIB

    10 months ago

    D.B. Woodside.
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  • Yobachi

    10 months ago

    The guy from the show 24 who's in all those car insurance commercials talking about acciddent forgiveness.
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  • albatross

    10 months ago

    Heinlein (not exactly a progressive voice!) had a story in _Expanded Universe_ in which a black woman became president and then enacted a bunch of oddball Heinleinian ideas.

    I think the last book or two of Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan franchise had a black fighter pilot as the VP, but I might be mistaken. (I gave up on Clancy much later than I should have--at this point, Jack Ryan is occasionally walking across lakes and calming storms with a rebuke.)
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  • ed

    9 months ago

    The first Black president I know of appeared in the TV series 'Buck Rogers in the 21st Century' that came on NBC during the 80s...
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  • blacksmythe

    9 months ago

    wait. i THINK i know the character you were talking about. old...distinctive eyes? i was going to say that i didn't remember, but it's coming to me.
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