About

William Jelani Cobb: a mild-mannered professor who ingested radioactive watermelon seeds and developed superhuman capacities for sarcasm and irony. My alter-ego is a Race Man in a postracial world doing combat with the arrayed forces of silliness, absurdity and crippling levels of triflingness. He could be that gold-toothed brother who just gave you directions to go “scrate up the screet” or that three-button-and-windsor-knot black man who helped straighten out your portfolio. Straight up: I contain multitudes.