Black to the Future, by Danielle Belton, The Black Snob.
TOP FIVE REASONS WHY THERE ARE SO FEW BLACKS IN THE FUTURE
1. Segregation. Most of us are working the elevator lifts and have other shitty jobs no one else wants.
2. New DNA technology allows us to be "bred" out making, white skin a dominate gene trait.
3. Still too broke for space!
4. New technology allows people the choice on whether to be born black or not. God. Was that a story in "Faces At the Bottom of the Well" because that sounds scary as shit.
5. Hey! That AIDS finally worked. Wait. What?
OK. I've officially scared myself with all these oddly plausible scenarios. Anyone else got a theory on how we got left behind?
I counted two black people in the Star Trek trailer, and one of them was also playing the role of "the girl." Then there was the beloved John Cho, who had approximately 4 seconds of screen time. I will hypothesize that all the colorful people, along with and including all the women, found a peaceful planet, and left the paler gentlemen to play their reindeer games.
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