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Get Out and Angry Black White Boy

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The first thing I thought when I read about Con Donner's project was "holy shit, this is straight out of Get Out ." Of course, it's not, because Angry Black White Boy  was published long before Get Out  came out. But the idea of hypnotizing people into acting like other races is a lot like Get Out. Warning: if anyone hasn't seen Get Out, spoilers are ahead if you care. For those who haven't seen it, Get Out  is a Jordan Peele horror film about a black man (Chris) who goes with his white girlfriend to visit her parents for a weekend. It turns out that the family actually runs a business that hypnotizes black people and transplants white buyer's brains into the black person's body (which acts as a host), keeping the host's consciousness sunken and unable to act while the white person's mind has complete control over the black person's body. Chris is the next intended victim to this process, sold to a blind white man who wants to be able to