The "cool pose" of many African Americans in today's culture is a way to give themselves power and control that they still have not been fully able to achieve in the many years after slavery. They develop the persona of the "cool cat", as Richard Majors and Janet Mancini Billson put it, to fill the void of the normal power and control they lack.
The typical "cool cats" are unemployed black males in the United States. Since these men have no money from a job, a way that a person would normally show as a
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