Dec 27 2008
Obama the ‘Magic Negro’ aka the LA Times headline you think came from racist Republicans.
Enjoy the song first.
The song is done by Paul Shanklin, and was first played on the Rush Limbaugh program last year. Recently a candidate for the RNC chair passed out some copies of Shanklin’s CD, upon which was the song. Naturally, there is an uproar, with Limbaugh and Republicans in general being called racist.
There’s just one little problem.
Shanklin didn’t make up the term. Rush Limbaugh didn’t make up the term. Republicans didn’t make up the term, even though in typical wussy fashion the RNC is falling all over itself to be “shocked and appalled” that a CD with 41 songs on it could have even ONE song that uninformed, knee-jerked dummies on the left would think is racist.
The term “Obama the Magic Negro” came from a Los Angeles Times article!
The article reads in part “it’s clear that Obama also is running for an equally important unelected office, in the province of the popular imagination — the ‘Magic Negro.’” It is from a piece by David Ehrenstein on March 19, 2007. He uses the term not just in the headline, but several times in the article.
I don’t recall a lot of racism charges being leveled at David Ehrenstein either then or now. In fact, in all the articles blasting Limbaugh, Republicans, Shanklin and “whitey” in general as racist, I found no references to the article.
I also saw no references to the fact that the song is a direct parody of the article. If you read the article, then listen to the song, you can easily see that the song is mocking the article in both letter and spirit.
Yet only Republicans are racist. As usual.
Of course, I’m also still waiting for people to start protesting in front of the UNCF or NAACP headquarters. After all, “Negro” and “Colored” are supposed to be racist, aren’t they?
When you’re done making them change their names maybe you can get around to making the LA Times apologize for their headline too.
Or is making a parody of a term supposed to be worse than using the term in the first place?
How about, instead of bitching about who made the term up, we just stop being racist? sound like a solution? Yeah? Is that reasonable enough?
No one is singling out republicans for being racist. People are singling out the RNC guy who passed out the cd, because the song was indeed racist. Maybe if people gave a s**t (edited) about David Ehrenstein or the LA Times (which they don’t) then there would have been an uproar about that too.
Jeez I hate it when people completely miss the fricking point.
–csc5502 says: Yeah, I hate it when people completely miss the point too. Yes, in fact people ARE singling out Republicans for being racist, for one. But the real issue is, they’re doing it without cause. It’s NOT racist to use a term in order to parody its use by somebody else! The fact that YOU don’t get that proves my point exactly. Every little thing is not racist, but to knee-jerk liberals like you it always is. But only when it’s from a white person, a Republican, or especially a white Republican Christian.
On another note, do not post profanity on my blog. Ever. It’s in the rules of my site. I edited it out this time; next time I’ll delete your comment. You’re free to post your ignorant slant here any time, just don’t cuss while you’re doing it.
oh my ****, if one more person on here calls me a fricking liberal…
and I’m sorry for the language. A certain david rude has gotten me in a really foul mood today.
but seriously, i’m not a liberal. I hate the demoncrats almost as much as I hate republicants.
–csc5502 says: Being liberal has nothing to do with party. There are plenty of liberal Republicans. We call them RINOs. If you don’t like being called a liberal, stop saying liberal things. Every comment I’ve seen you make has been classic liberal. If it quacks like a duck….
My honest views on government? It’s too big. The RINO’s you speak of have abandoned the conservative philosophies of having a small government that protects what its people want but stays out of their lives. At the same time they’ve allowed all of this government expansion to happen they’ve cut down on regulation. And now with Obama? It’s the dems turn for 8 years (If they gave Bush 4 more, they’ll give Obama 4 more too) and the government expansion is going to be phenominal. I actually trust Obama with the power too - but I do not trust the government to hold that power.
The Federal Income Tax is unconstitutional. The Federal Reserve is a sham, a monopoly on every working american that is designed purely to create debt. Do you think the democrats are going to change that? Hell no, democratic bankers created the process. But do we ever hear republicans talk about this? No it just gets back to the same moronic hot-button issues like abortion and gay rights…
Me criticizing republicans isn’t being liberal, it’s my frustration with the party that doesn’t represent the wants of its constituants. In doing so America’s constitution is being chipped away piece by piece.
–csc5502 says: Again, I didn’t say that criticizing Republicans was being liberal; I said the comments you make are liberal.