15th April 2010, 10:30 AM
While I do not for a moment dismiss him as a folk hero (but rather I argue that he is one for the reasons I wrote above,) one could perhaps write off his stardom as PC. He is black; thus he is the token folk hero. Or not--just throwing that out there, that you may mull thereupon.
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