Posted on 12/31/2008 10:01:03 PM PST by Kaslin
This is how the whole thing started.
David Ehrenstein, a writer who happens to be black and liberal, wrote an opinion piece in March 2007 in the Los Angeles Times called "Obama the 'Magic Negro.'"
He argued that whites, according to sociologists, stereotype blacks as "dangerous." But whites consider Obama accessible, likeable and "benign." This, according to Ehrenstein, explains Obama's "crossover" appeal.
The article insults a) Obama, by virtually ignoring his effectiveness as a candidate, b) whites, by accusing them of voting for Obama merely to assuage their own guilt, and c) Sidney Poitier, the brilliant, groundbreaking actor, for ascribing his success to whites who find him safe and non-threatening.
The article produced virtually no outcry.
Conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh then aired a song parody --set to the music of "Puff the Magic Dragon" -- called "Barack the Magic Negro." Referring to the L.A. Times article, an Al Sharpton-like "singer" called Obama inauthentically black. Why, complained the singer, should white folks vote for Obama rather than a true black man "from the hood" like -- me.
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I think you are onto the scheme. Sure looks like the RINOs around W are part of it, too.
Can’t be!
Nah, it’s got to be a WHITE guy.
LOL!!!
“Obama isn’t even very negroid anyway.”
That’s the point of the original article.
One can agree or disagree with it, find Rush’s parody funny or unfunny, but calling every discussion that mixes race and Obama ‘racism’ gets us to the point of absurdity.
how about ...
Republicans: We were for civil rights (in the 1860s) before being for civil rights was cool (in the 1960s).
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