News Summary

• Although initially enamored with his new powers, Aren begins to question the value of using supernatural means to do the very thing he’s felt obligated to do his whole life..
• I started playing around with it, and what it came down to is the defense mechanism I learned to survive in America — to be accommodating to white people..
• It can be a black best friend, or an old janitor with a magical twinkle in his eye..
• Key Quote: Kobi Libii on the magical Negro: “A black supporting character that doesn’t have their own internal life..
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