We Are Respectable Negroes - Chauncey DeVega's World of Ghetto Nerds: Barack Obama is the New Joker? or The Dark Knight Repurposed by Conservative Activists

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Chauncey DeVega's World of Ghetto Nerds: Barack Obama is the New Joker? or The Dark Knight Repurposed by Conservative Activists

Politics is popular culture and popular culture is politics.

As has been widely reported, a series of posters substituting Barack Obama’s face for that of Heath Ledger’s Joker have appeared…