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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