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March 22, 2007
Today's Racist Post
Brought to you by... The LA Times:
AS EVERY CARBON-BASED life form on this planet surely knows, Barack Obama, the junior Democratic senator from Illinois, is running for president. Since making his announcement, there has been no end of commentary about him in all quarters — musing over his charisma and the prospect he offers of being the first African American to be elected to the White House.
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.
Despite my Jewish sense of responsibility, I don't feel any white guilt whatsoever, except... maybe I should for posting this little ditty:
nah. If Rush can do, so can I! Thanks Paul, for the song! and thanks Ken... for the tip!
Posted by LindaSoG at March 22, 2007 08:01 PM
Comments
That is funny Linda, I had downloaded that song a few days ago and was playing it when I came to your site.
Posted by: DoubleU at March 23, 2007 01:02 PM
Maybe I'm just watching the wrong news shows, but has anyone else noticed, that there hasn't been a peep about the Republican candidates, The Republican party is already a day late and a dollar short if they have zero exposure at this point
Posted by: William at March 23, 2007 09:20 PM