To: doug from upland
A freeper on another thread said the term “The Magic Negro” originated with Spike Lee and Ehrenstein took it from him.
I haven’t researched it so I don’t know.
161 posted on
05/07/2007 12:46:23 PM PDT by
I still care
("Remember... for it is the doom of men that they forget" - Merlin, from Excalibur)
To: I still care
Goes back a bit farther than Spike Lee. In the 60’s, Sidney Poitier was called just that.
204 posted on
05/07/2007 2:12:09 PM PDT by
Roccus
(We finally consign Marxism to the dustbin of history, and it turns out it’s a recycling bin.)
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