when Armie Hammer is talking to Cassius about being the MLK for the Equisapians, Beatty's protagonist of Whiteboy Shuffle immediately came to my mind.
i don't even know if it connects that well. I can't remember the book so much. But the book and movie shared the territory of having a cyncial black "savior" in a completely ridiculous situation...
-- the untold want by life and land ne'er granted now voyager sail thou forth to seek and find