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Where does the black guy (with the blue shirt) on the phone meme come from?
Black Guy on the Phone is the nickname of former Republican congressional primary candidate Martin Baker, who was photographed talking on his cell phone during an event to support police officer Darren Wilson in August 2014. The photograph has been widely circulated in joke tweets posted on Black Twitter.
On August 17th, 2014, The Guardian[1] published an article about protesters in St. Louis, Missouri who came out in support of Darren Wilson, the police officer who fatally shot teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri earlier that month. The article referred to a man named Martin Baker as the sole black member of the crowd.
The same day, a thread titled "Meet the one black man that showed up at the rally for the cop that killed Mike Brown" was submitted to the Lipstick Alley Forums,[2] which highlighted a photograph of Baker holding a Darren Wilson T-shirt (shown below, left). In the thread, forum member originalwharris posted another photograph of Baker, in which he is shown holding his cellphone up to his ear