Barack the Magic Negro

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Since when is the Republican Party not racist, sexist, and homophobic? They've been doing this stuff for years. Why should they change now? It works with their backward christian members.

The frustration is now they do it, then they turn around and get fussy when people shy away from their party. They'll put on a mask when they need a black person or a gay person to help put them onto a platform but it's inevitable that the minority gets thrown under the bus in the GOP. There's actually a mountain of minorities under the GOP's bus, the wheels aren't even touching the ground anymore.
 

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Can anyone be a candidate? Be like someone in Rev Wright's church... or the Rev... nevermind.

It's bad taste.

But it's also just as BAD TASTE for all you LPSGers to broad brush an entire demographic (be it conservatives, Repbulicans, Libertarians, whitey... whatever) as guilt by association.

You stay classy San Diego.

[edit: anyone ever catch Chris Rock during the campaign season... funny, but yowza]
 
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was it not a black guy that sent the cd out? and now all the gop'rs are say it was just a joke the whole world is nutz.
 

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AMEN! I'm so sick and tired of the GOP getting caught with their hand in the cookie jar then blaming the media for just filming them at the wrong angle. Continuously. Yup, they're the perpetual victims. You can only be wrongfully accused of douchery so many times before you have to stop and wonder, "Hmm, maybe I am a huge douche."

:lmao:

(But you mean "continually" (again and again), not "continuously" (without a break).)
 

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Can anyone be a candidate? Be like someone in Rev Wright's church... or the Rev... nevermind.

It's bad taste.

But it's also just as BAD TASTE for all you LPSGers to broad brush an entire demographic (be it conservatives, Repbulicans, Libertarians, whitey... whatever) as guilt by association.

You stay classy San Diego.

[edit: anyone ever catch Chris Rock during the campaign season... funny, but yowza]

My dad used to tell me, "You're judged by the company you keep".
 

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Now if it were truly a parody meant to denigrate the racists while praising Obama, why would someone running for the RNC chair put it on his CD? Why put a pro-Obama, or at least a song defending him, in campaign material for a Republican?

My guess is that Saltsman either doesn't get the meaning of the song or is hoping that the GOP rank and file don't get it either.

Plausible deniability.
 

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My dad used to tell me, "You're judged by the company you keep".


Hmmm. So your actually applying the characteristics of one bad apple to millions of good apple? Most Republicans I know are great, non-racist folk, so shouldn't think guy be considered as such... since he should be judged by the company he keeps.

Curious how many Libertarians in these parts....
 

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Hmmm. So your actually applying the characteristics of one bad apple to millions of good apple? Most Republicans I know are great, non-racist folk, so shouldn't think guy be considered as such... since he should be judged by the company he keeps.

Curious how many Libertarians in these parts....

Well, let's see...
You're judging Obama and everyone that voted for him based on a person he's either associated with or knows. Or do you think anyone here forgotten all of your ridiculous Reverend Wright and now Rick Warren comments? What were the fury of insults you had for these people? Brainwashed? Suckers? Obamabot? Just to name a few of course...

Seriously, were you looking at a mirror when you typed this statement? :rolleyes:
 

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Now if it were truly a parody meant to denigrate the racists while praising Obama, why would someone running for the RNC chair put it on his CD? Why put a pro-Obama, or at least a song defending him, in campaign material for a Republican?

Because it's a CHRISTMAS GIFT and it's FUNNY.

The song isn't really a defense of Obama. It is making fun of the media and the stupidity of identity politics. Why should people feel good about voting for the first black president if he's a dangerous liberal moron?

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do the words uncle tom ring any bells?

I don't see your point. Who is the "uncle tom" here? The guy who wrote the article?

Not that it's relevant, but the author of the original "Magic Negro" article is a gay black man.
 

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Why should people feel good about voting for the first black president if he's a dangerous liberal moron?

Because the dangerous conservative morons could have done it with Colin Powell, yet botched that up as well. Oops, did I say that? :rolleyes:

I don't see your point. Who is the "uncle tom" here? The guy who wrote the article?

Not that it's relevant, but the author of the original "Magic Negro" article is a gay black man.

You're right... it is irrelevant. That is because the term "Magic Negro" has roots that go FAR beyond this decade or century, and the author isn't the person who wrote that ridiculous song in the bad parody.
 
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This just seems to be another example of the GOP's seeming relentless determination to shrink its base to is most ideological, unpleasant, racist, homophobic, and ignorant. They should keep at it.
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What else have they sold since 1964? It's worked for so long and now that it doesn't they have no idea where to go. If they try to move beyond it 'The Base' will leave. Hence McLame's attempt to rally them with the diasterous Palin.

The whole 'small government' is just another elaborate ruse. What they mean is 'I don't want my money going to the less fortunate'. And racists understand the coded message there very very well. And the rich love that message as well for obvious reasons.

Where did this hostility to government come from? In 1981 Lee Atwater, the famed Republican political consultant, explained the evolution of the G.O.P.’s “Southern strategy,” which originally focused on opposition to the Voting Rights Act but eventually took a more coded form: “You’re getting so abstract now you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is blacks get hurt worse than whites.” In other words, government is the problem because it takes your money and gives it to Those People.
 
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"magic negro." ...black characters that enter in and solve the problems of the white protagonists

If you had actually LISTENED TO THE SONG (and it is obvious none of you have), you would know that it is not critical of the President Elect at all. It makes fun of people like Al Sharpton and Jesse "cut his nuts off" Jackson, who don't believe Obama is "authentic" enough to call himself a black person.

All this is is an innocent parody of racist bigots.


But it at least puts the song in persective: well executed or not, it was meant as an attack to those who latched on to Obama as a black man they could identify with who'd relieve them of racial guilt. Not racist, beyond the degrees of absolute bad taste.

It's not really supporting him so much as attacking his supporters' motives.


IMO the video doesn't attack Obama supporters' motives. It rips Al Sharpton and satires the Obama's not " black enough" spiteful comments made by a jealous Ralph Nader, Jesse Jackson and others. Sharpton is pitted against Obama in this fictional voter's choice competition. In the parodied Sharpton's opinion whites will surely choose "articulate, bright" and "clean" Obama over him as, by virtue of being a "real black man", Sharpton lacks those qualities. A ranting and raving Sharpton, like Puff at the end of the Magic Dragon song, sadly slips away feeling dejected and unwanted.
 
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