Poor Republican

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?