the bottom ;line sunshine is one of the republican hate mongers sent copies of it to the other racists at the RNC !
On Dec 30, 6:50 am, Ohio mark <[email protected]> wrote: > Liberal outrage over a ditty that parodied Barack Obama's identity as > a black American ignores the fact that it all began with a Los Angeles > Times column by a black liberal columnist who questioned Obama's > status as an authentic African-American. > > Liberals were not alone in expressing anger. The chairman of the > Republican National Committee (RNC) Robert M. Duncan, obviously > unaware of the parody’s origin, jumped the gun saying he was “shocked > and appalled” at the judgment of one of his potential successors, > according to the Associated Press. > > Duncan castigated former Tennessee GOP leader Chip Saltsman for > sending RNC committee members a Christmas CD featuring a 2007 song > called “Barack the Magic Negro.” But David Ehrenstein, a black liberal > writer and no friend of Obama's, is the one who first wrote of Obama > as a "Magic Negro," in a March 2007 Times column in which he argued > that white liberals were portraying Obama as a stereotype. > > He likened Obama to “warm and unthreatening” black figures such as > actors Sidney Poitier and Morgan Freeman. Ehrenstein insisted that > Obama's role as a candidate was "to assuage white 'guilt' over the > role of slavery and racial segregation in American history". > > "As everyone knows, whites feel no guilt about America's racist > history whatsoever," Ehrenstein wrote, according to the Washington > Post. "All they care about is the appearance of politesse — the slimy > veneer of 'good manners.'" > > "Obama's fame," wrote Ehrenstein, is about "his manner, which, as > presidential hopeful Sen. Joe Biden ham-fistedly reminded us, is > 'articulate.' His tone is always genial, his voice warm and > unthreatening, and he hasn't called his opponents names (despite being > baited by the media). > > "Like a comic-book superhero, Obama is there to help, out of the sheer > goodness of a heart we need not know or understand. For as with all > Magic Negroes, the less real he seems, the more desirable he becomes. > If he were real, white America couldn't project all its fantasies of > curative black benevolence on him." > > The song, "Barack the Magic Negro," sung by satirist Paul Shanklin, > who wrote the parody, was a direct result of Ehrenstein's column. > That's where the "Magic Negro" term originated > > http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/obama_parody_la_times/2008/12/29/1... --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
