Most of the images involve her parents trying to reason with her about the dangers of her new black lifestyle, only to have her scream back about how much she loves Daquan.

It’s hilarious, especially when the young girl is doing things we know she should not be doing: reciting Chief Keef lyrics, talking about the ‘trap’, having sex with black men.

Precisely because the source material is nothing less than the last 400 years of American racial tension, Daquan has a lot of potential. Daquan is armed with weapons like black sex, black drugs, and black music, and is able to wreak havoc on white boys and girls alike.

In short, Daquan is the physical embodiment of what groups like the White Citizen’s Council were warning about a few decades ago:

Original available here

This poster seems a little over-the-top today, but in the 1950s, people were much more direct. After all, today, when white politicians complain about ‘Urban America’, they’re really just using code language to freak out about black people.

Who’s laughing, and why?

The weirdest thing about the Daquan meme is all the sites that are hesitant to call it racist. Of course it’s racist. The racism is the funny part.

Some of the success of Daquan as a meme can probably be attributed to black people laughing at a white America that is deathly afraid of them. Like I said, this might seem cruel, but it’s a coping mechanism.

The interesting thing though, is that there seems to be a big gap in the pictures that people respond to. The biggest gap in popularity seems to be between jokes that make fun of black males, and those that make fun of white males.

As an example, here’s a meme showing Daquan hiding under a white girl’s bed. It has about 7,500 retweets.

And here’s another one, where a white woman turns away from her white lover (who is usually called ‘David’ in this meme). ‘I should have called Daquan’, she sighs, as David, aware of his inability to satisfy her now that she has experienced the raw power and passion that is Daquan, stares guiltily into space. This one has 750 retweets.

Apparently, black men sneaking into white women’s rooms is roughly ten times funnier than a white man having to deal with the consequences.

That is, black male criminality is funny, but white male emasculation is not.

#blacktwitter isn’t even black

This might seem a little confusing. After all, wouldn’t Black Twitter enjoy a good laugh at the expense of their Caucasian brothers?

In a word, no. Because most of the people laughing at Daquan are probably not black.

Which isn’t surprising, as the person running the most popular Daquan twitter account is apparently a teenaged white girl. If you go back far enough into the @ItsDaquann account history (currently at 70k+ followers), it’s full of tweets that are mainly complaining about high school, complaining about eating too much pizza, and salivating over boys.

Well, maybe she’s not white. She might be a very light-skinned Ethiopian, or Indian, or something. But that doesn’t really matter (more on this later). Whatever her particular identity may be, she’s certainly no Daquan.