Once again the morons of the left wing are choosing to shoot themselves in the foot, attempting to brand the most listened to man in talk radio, Rush Limbaugh, as a racist for his song, Barack the Magic Negro, performed by parody song writer and performer, Paul Shanklin. Let’s just clear up the misconceptions, shall we. The term was coined by a writer at the LA Times named David Ehrenstein.
On March 19, 2007, Ehrenstein wrote a piece called Obama the ‘Magic Negro’
The Illinois senator lends himself to white America’s idealized, less-than-real black man.
Here’s a neat and tidy excerpt of the sort of racist condesension was exhibited by the LA Times columnist.
But it’s clear that Obama also is running for an equally important unelected office, in the province of the popular imagination — the “Magic Negro.”
The Magic Negro is a figure of postmodern folk culture, coined by snarky 20th century sociologists, to explain a cultural figure who emerged in the wake of Brown vs. Board of Education. “He has no past, he simply appears one day to help the white protagonist,” reads the description on Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magical_Negro .
He’s there to assuage white “guilt” (i.e., 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.
Barack the Magic Negro Explained
In Rush’s own words:
It was a column, essentially, accusing white people supporting Obama of being racist because they don’t care what he stands for and don’t care what he’s going to do. The fact that he’s black is enough for them, to make them not feel guilty as long as they say they support him, and that was the definition of “magic negro.” Now, on this program, we made it a big point to point out that it was — and this columnist is black, by the way, David Ehrenstein is black, and he used the term, which is why it says so in the lyric line of the song. So we’re just highlighting what the left says. I believe they’re the true racists. I believe they’re the ones that look at people and notice whatever is different about them from white liberals. Either they’re black or they’re gay or they’re Hispanic or whatever. They immediately group people, and most of them happen to be victims. Yet we conservatives are the ones, Uriah, who get tarred and feathered with these allegations.
But, hey moonbats, please do go right ahead and keep trying to rewrite history. It’s making the political humor a lot of fun. If you want to call Rush a racist, you’re going to have to back it up with something better than the words of AN LA TIMES COLUMNIST.
D’oh!
By the way. It took me all of 12 seconds to type “barack the magic negro site:rushlimbaugh.com” and find the transcript linking the LA Times piece. Good thing the media has all those layers of editors and fact checkers. But why none of them know how to use Google is beyond me.
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11 responses so far ↓
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Chris C
// Sep 17, 2008 at 8:08 pm
“But, hey moonbats, please do go right ahead and keep trying to rewrite history.”
Like the part where the Democratic Party was for slavery before they were against it? Oh oh did I just go there?
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RT
// Sep 17, 2008 at 9:11 pm
So, it doesn’t mean he’s like magic mushrooms? Because, I could swear that his followers tend to hallucinate and see things no one else does.
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Les James
// Sep 17, 2008 at 9:27 pm
Does he do bar mitzvahs and kids birthday parties?
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Insolublog
// Sep 18, 2008 at 8:38 pm
Don’t you love the new espanol Obama add, featuring Rush Limbaugh’s comments as referring to American law, when they are actually referring to Mexican Law? I guess that’s just a minor filament of trivia, to be left on the propaganda cutting floor.
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RT
// Sep 18, 2008 at 9:42 pm
On further thought, I think Puff the Magic Dragon might be insulted.
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Billy
// Nov 19, 2008 at 2:41 pm
Barack teh Magic Negro song was appropriate for the times and rtather funny, not a raciost or bigoted tune! People gots to lighten up as Barama is a rather light Negro who apparently is not a favorite of rev Al Sharpton1 That’s cool as freedomof speech says so.
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Billy
// Nov 19, 2008 at 2:42 pm
Barack the Magic Negro song was appropriate for the times and rather funny, not a raciost or bigoted tune! People gots to lighten up as Barama is a rather light Negro who apparently is not a favorite of rev Al Sharpton! That’s cool as freedom of speech says so.
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John
// Dec 26, 2008 at 6:07 pm
It’s amazing how all of you can’t see the difference between apples and oranges. The LA Times coined the term in an article that was a non biased observation piece. Taking that term and then connecting it to the playful tune of a child’s song is taking it into another context. Would you say a professor talking about the origins of the word “nigger” and someone calling someone else a “nigger” is the same thing? Of course not. This is no different.
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John
// Dec 26, 2008 at 6:19 pm
One other thing I saw in the line of comments. Chris C, what on earth does your comment about slavery and the democratic party have anything to do with this article. At one time, most of the world supported slavery in some form or another. How far do you want to go back in history. Talk about reaching to make yourself feel intelligent.
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