[Red Badger]

Now here's a campaign slogan that fits the bumper sticker mentality of liberals:
Vote Obama in '08!
Assuage your White Guilt!......

[Red Badger]

Magic Man
Heart

Cold late night so long ago
When I was not so strong you know
A pretty man came to me
Never seen eyes so blue
I could not run away
It seemed wed seen each other in a dream
It seemed like he knew me
He looked right through me
Come on home, girl he said with a smile
You dont have to love me yet
Lets get high awhile
But try to understand
Try to understand
Try try try to understand
Im a magic man.

Winter nights we sang in tune
Played inside the months of moon
Never think of never
Let this spell last forever
Summer over passed to fall
Tried to realize it all
Mama says shes worried
Growing up in a hurry

Come on home, girl mama cried on the phone
Too soon to lose my baby yet my girl should be at home!
But try to understand, try to understand
Try try try to understand
Hes a magic man, mama
Hes a magic man

Come on home, girl he said with a smile
I cast my spell of love on you a woman from a child!
But try to understand, try to understand
Im a magic man!

[WakeUpAndVote]

A magic nigro he ain't...

[don-o]

[Lijahsbubbe]

His tone is always genial, his voice warm and unthreatening, and he hasn't called his opponents names (despite being baited by media).

What a bunch of crap. And I suppose Algore and Hilary act the way they do because they're white.

[CheyennePress]

Given the black on white violence we've seen for decades on end, I'm really not feeling any need for white guilt. At all. And that's not to mention the black on black violence, either.

If anything, I'm a bit impatient with it. It's time the leaders of the black community addressed those issues instead of worrying about repaying slavery. 600,000 men did die in putting it to an end. Or more than that, how about joining the rest of us in society? That might be nice for a change. I guess the endless fractioning will continue indefinitely, but what can you do?

(I know, I'm not supposed to think such thoughts...)

[Mamzelle]

You see a lot of Magic Negroes in Stephen King novels. Very Noble Savage. But liberals get away with condescension...

[cake_crumb]

He's there to assuage white "guilt" (the minimal discomfort they feel) over the role of slavery and racial segregation in American history, while replacing stereotypes of a dangerous, highly sexualized black man with a benign figure for whom interracial sexual congress holds no interest.

I'm white and don't feel guilt. That's because I never segregated anyone, except my kids, by gender.

As might be expected, this figure is chiefly cinematic — embodied by such noted performers as Sidney Poitier, Morgan Freeman, Scatman Crothers, Michael Clarke Duncan, Will Smith and, most recently, Don Cheadle. And that's not to mention a certain basketball player whose very nickname is "Magic."

Is he KIDDING?? Will Smith is HOT!

[School of Rational Thought]

And that's not to mention a certain basketball player whose very nickname is "Magic." Johnson was into blondes big time. He hardly meets the writer's suggested definition.

[School of Rational Thought]

And that's not to mention a certain basketball player whose very nickname is "Magic." Johnson was into blondes big time. He hardly meets the writer's suggested definition.

[petercooper]

C'mon, he's only a halfsie.

[Chi-townChief]

So where does David Ehrenstein fall on the political spectrum?

[MHGinTN]

So all it took to expose the true face of liberalism was for Hillary Rodham-rodent to feel threatened by the competition candidacy of a man, a black man! Wow, that e-mail instruction to the L.A. Slimes to publish this crap must have been a doozy! Bwahahahaha ... the soft bigotry of the democrat party is getting more nasty don'tchaknow. Will black people catch on yet?

[NickatNite2003]

You know...If i were a black American
tghis article would really piss me off.
I think i'd want to burn the LA Times
down to the grouhnd.

[John Jorsett]

He's there to assuage white "guilt" (the minimal discomfort they feel) over the role of slavery and racial segregation in American history, while replacing stereotypes of a dangerous, highly sexualized black man with a benign figure for whom interracial sexual congress holds no interest. [snip] His tone is always genial, his voice warm and unthreatening, and he hasn't called his opponents names (despite being baited by media).

I infer from this that the writer thinks an "authentic" Black man would be saying things like, "I'm gonna bus' a cap in yo honky ass, then go after your wimmen." David Ehrenstein appears to have some odd ideas about how Black men should behave. Being Black, I wonder if that's how he acts himself.

[Vaquero]

from...TEXAS RADIO.....The Doors:



The Negroes in the forest brightly feathered
They are saying, "Forget the night.
Live with us in forests of azure.
Out here on the perimeter there are no stars
Out here we is stoned - immaculate."

[lesser_satan]

Dave Chapelle needs to read this piece and do a skit about it.

[TexasRepublic]

White guilt? Hell, not me!

[marron]

Democrat sociologists continue to obsess about race, and condescend based on race, and otherwise struggle with their historical guilt, and then project it onto America at large.

And they continue to make the mistake of judging America by the distorted and again condescending view of race projected by Hollywood, and by their own party leadership, and again to project it onto America at large.

I'm not sure how to relieve them of their pain. They could become Republicans, I suppose, and start treating people as individuals, but barring that there isn't much anyone can do.

[jordan8]

First of all what's with this "white America". White America isn't promoting Obama the left is. The Magic Negro wasn't created by ordinary white Americans but by liberal Hollywood. What little substance this piece has applies only to them. More important is the real nature of the Magic Negro phenomenon: it isn't caused by white guilt over slavery it is a propaganda ploy to calm whites during their dispossession. It's reverse stereotyping and like all overly good portrayals of nonwhites its essential essence is white-hating racism.