Barack the 'Magic' Negro
I’m a little annoyed.
Is ‘Barack the Magic Negro’ song racist?
Wait. Let me think. Ready? NO!
Racism depending on the entity defining it is:
(1) a system of advantage based on race
(2) prejudice or animosity against people who belong to other races
(3) a belief in racial superiority.
Here’s the irony of the Paul Shanklin song…he only took quotes from liberals like Al Sharpton and our Vice President-elect Joe Biden and turned their words into a song. According to David Ehrenstein, a black man who writes for the LA times, anyone that thinks that ‘white guilt’ didn’t have a hand in this election is blind to the truth. Did I mention that David Ehrenstein is a A BLACK MAN?? Anyways, he called Obama a 'Magic Negro' because he is the opposite of how Blacks are portrayed in the media.
We ALL (hopefully) remember that according to the Justice Brothers (thanks Rush Limbaugh 
) Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, Obama wasn’t ‘black’ enough. Remember, being “Black” according to these buffoons has nothing to do with pigmentation, hair texture, and genes…it has to do with your willingness to be part of the “ALL my problems have to do with racism” crowd… whatever...
Back to the ‘Magic Negro’ song…
Shanklin is directly poking fun at Sharpton in the song. That's evident throughout the whole song especially when Shanklin says "a white interlopers dream." So we have a satirist who uses the words of liberals and uses them as lyrics to his song and all of a sudden it’s branded as 'racist' and 'insensitive'? What?
Selective outrage. This reminds me of the whole Don Imus situation. We have had misogyny in rap music for how long now? Our Black men have been calling Black women “hoes” “bitches” “skanks” “hood-rats” for how long? When a white man says it--then there's this colossal uproar?
Okay, Vanessa. What's your point?
Stick with me. I'm bringing it home. Ready? Here's how the Imus situation is analagous to this current manufactured outrage...
Members of the left can call Obama the ‘magic Negro,’ allege that he isn’t ‘black enough,’ and say that he is the first mainstream ‘clean’ and ‘articulate’ black candidate (thanks Biden )… but when a Republican puts it in a song…that’s disseminated to other like-minded people--- as a gift---well…then only then does this mandate upheaval???
It doesn’t make any freaking sense!
“Okay, Vanessa, but this hurts our cause!” I can hear my conservative brothers and sisters saying it now. I understand it... partially. Well, to them I say…it was a joke. Honestly, it was just a joke!!! It's a lampoon!
Democrats are the ones with a history of racism and incalculable subjugation of Blacks… BUT---the Republicans are the ones branded as insensitive bigots. Um, liberals practically wrote the freaking song! Shanklin didn't make up those words.…and now Republicans are the ones being called “insensitive” and “racist.” Does that seem a little backwards to anyone?
If Rush Limbaugh was wrong from playing the song on the EIB network, then we must apply that same logic to ALL the media outlets that gave Sharpton, Jackson, and Biden airtime when their comments were the talk of the day.
This is selective outrage and speech totalitarianism in its purest form.
Amen, Amen, Amen....I was thinking the same thing....I do not agree that the song is racists at all. You eloquently wrote what was in my head...that's why I love following your blogs....
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I agree that the sound is not racist. I really am not moved by it one way or the other. I do believe that for Chip Saltsman to seek leadership in a party that clearly needs to do better in communicating with blacks; he has shown poor judgment in sending this song to RNC members.
As a black conservative, I do think the next chairperson should be one who like the men of Issachar in Scripture, "understand the season in which they live". I have pause concerning Mr. Saltsman's ability to do so. That does not mean he is racist, it simply means I question his judgment in this matter. A true leader seeks to act in a manner that is principled, yet understanding of the need to reach those who need his or her message with communication that does not inflame but seeks to unite.
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Its not racist as i first thought by just hearing or seeing the headline. To me after listening to the song I can clearly see that it was meant as satire or as a joke. We live in a world where headlines carry so much weight and facts checking or reading the whole story at time doesn't get done. I believe sending the cd out was done in bad taste and may likely cost him the chairman post that he is seeking due to nature of the politically correctness world of today. racial subjects will continue to be a taboo issue and we as a nation needs to do a better job at addressing it.....
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