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GOP Official Blasted for Distributing Obama 'Magic Negro' CD
Foxnews.com (AP) ^ | Saturday, December 27, 2008 | AP

Posted on 12/27/2008 10:28:11 PM PST by tricky_k_1972

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To: tricky_k_1972

Let me guess, another Soros’ Media Smatters generated “outrage”.


61 posted on 12/28/2008 1:40:13 PM PST by weegee ("Let Me Just Cut You Off, Because I Don't Want You To Waste Your Question" - B.Obama Dec 16, 2008)
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To: weegee

No, worse RINO outrage, @$#^&.


62 posted on 12/28/2008 2:16:39 PM PST by tricky_k_1972 (Putting on Tinfoil hat and heading for the bomb shelter.)
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To: Puddleglum
"...gives the opposition ammunition..."

Everything gives the opposition ammunition, we need to stop living our lives in fear of what they will say about us, and we definitely need to stop eating our own over cr@p like this.

The correct response was:

"Chip Saltsman should apologize in the manner of the way Rats apologize - “If anyone is so stupid that you were offended by my actions then I apologize to your parents for raising a stupid kid.”

35 posted on Sunday, December 28, 2008 6:42:59 AM by saneright"

63 posted on 12/28/2008 2:23:22 PM PST by tricky_k_1972 (Putting on Tinfoil hat and heading for the bomb shelter.)
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To: LanaTurnerOverdrive
2. If I read an L.A. Times article calling GW a white trash cracker, would that make it OK for me to repeat it over and over, ad nauseum, just because it didn't originate with me?

Explain to me, please: How is "white trash cracker" analogous to "Magic Negro"?

Only one of these expressions has racist overtones and only one of them is intended to demean.

Think about it, please, before you respond.

64 posted on 12/28/2008 2:42:37 PM PST by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance on Parade)
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To: SatinDoll

I believe Spike Lee actually coined the term.


65 posted on 12/28/2008 5:28:45 PM PST by Borges
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To: pepperdog

ping


66 posted on 12/28/2008 5:57:28 PM PST by Coldwater Creek ("There is no insanity greater than electing a pathological Narcissist as president.")
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To: okie01
Explain to me, please: How is "white trash cracker" analogous to "Magic Negro"?

Seriously? You may not like it and you obviously don't understand it, but black people take offense to white people calling them negroes. They have for quite some time now. It doesn't matter how stupid you think it is, it is a fact of life. Do you actually know any black people? I'm assuming you don't, but if you do, just ask them.

While you're at it, ask yourself this: If black people weren't offended by white people calling them negroes, why would this song parody be making the news at all?
67 posted on 12/28/2008 10:22:51 PM PST by LanaTurnerOverdrive ("I've done a few things in my life I'm not proud of, and the things I am proud of are disgusting.")
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To: LanaTurnerOverdrive
May I suggest a minor edit to your comment?

You may not like it and you obviously don't understand it, but (some)black people take offense to white people calling them negroes.

And, obviously, you are one of them. If so, please accept my regrets at the unintended offense.

However, to my knowledge, I've never encountered black people who were offended by the term. Neither friends, associates, nor employees. True, it's been superseded in common usage by "black" -- which is, of course, a direct translation from Negro. But I've never understood this to be an offensive term.

In fact, I'm a little puzzled that anybody would take umbrage at the term -- anymore than I'd take umbrage at being referred to as Caucasian. Nor do my Asiatic acquaintences seem to be offended by Oriental. They prefer Asiatic, by the way...but they don't view Oriental as a pejorative.

By golly, you're right. I don't understand it.

Has the United Negro College Fund changed its name to reflect this perception? Did I miss that?

68 posted on 12/29/2008 9:19:52 AM PST by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance on Parade)
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