EasyEd
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Post by EasyEd on Feb 2, 2009 13:43:39 GMT -5
The term, Obama the Magic Negro, was the title of an article penned by David Ehrenstein in the Los Angeles Times in March of 2007. In it he asserted that Barach Obama would serve as the "magical negro" to assuage white guilt. No one seems to have objected to Ehrenstein's article. But when Paul Shanklin created the song of the same title it was condemned as racist.
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TC
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Post by TC on Feb 2, 2009 14:03:09 GMT -5
It's amazing how people try to read into my posts what I didn't say or imply. It's amazing that you write your posts and don't know how they read. |
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Post by jerseyhoya34 on Feb 2, 2009 20:42:43 GMT -5
The term, Obama the Magic Negro, was the title of an article penned by David Ehrenstein in the Los Angeles Times in March of 2007. In it he asserted that Barach Obama would serve as the "magical negro" to assuage white guilt. No one seems to have objected to Ehrenstein's article. But when Paul Shanklin created the song of the same title it was condemned as racist. This "analysis" obviously leaves open the possibility that both Ehrenstein and Shanklin, neither widely considered intellectual luminaries or otherwise deserving of attention, were both terribly wrong and offensive. |
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Post by GIGAFAN99 on Feb 2, 2009 21:49:00 GMT -5
Guys, the "magical negro" is a real thing. It's what Spike Lee calls that film charcter that will do anything to help the white main charcter (like Will Smith in Bagger Vance, which was probably seen by three people, but you get my point).
He deals with it in Bamboozled (another one 4 people saw), so I see how this is confusing. But this term is not new and the send ups of it are relevant commentary to Obama being thought of by white people as a supernatural being come to save them.
Just thought I'd interject on this one. We dealing with some LA Times guy I've never heard of while somehow missing Spike Lee.
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Post by Coast2CoastHoya on Feb 3, 2009 0:09:41 GMT -5
Amazing that this thread is two pages long and NO ONE has referenced Dave Chappelle. Kids these days....  Man, race stinks. Stupid melanin makin' us all hateful for no reason ... |
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Post by CAHoya07 on Feb 3, 2009 10:02:08 GMT -5
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EasyEd
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Post by EasyEd on Feb 3, 2009 13:13:35 GMT -5
I admit I have an anti-liberal bias. Still waiting for the media to own up to its bias. Chris Matthews with 'chills running down my leg" and Stephanopolis crying when Obama was inaugurated and the rest gushing. Anyone who does not recosnize the media are biased in the direction of liberalism and the Democratic Party must have had too much of what Michael Phelps was doing. As for Eric Holder, he should not have been nominated nor approved because of his part in Clinton's mass pardons at the end of his 2nd term. Note the Wash Post headlined an article today saying he was the first Black Attorney General. Still waiting for a headline stating Steele is the first Black Chair of the Republican Party. Things seem to be "historic" only when it concerns Democrats. |
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Post by Coast2CoastHoya on Feb 3, 2009 15:50:26 GMT -5
I admit I have an anti-liberal bias. Still waiting for the media to own up to its bias. Chris Matthews with 'chills running down my leg" and Stephanopolis crying when Obama was inaugurated and the rest gushing. Anyone who does not recosnize the media are biased in the direction of liberalism and the Democratic Party must have had too much of what Michael Phelps was doing. If this is true, isn't the most important question "why"? Why do you think this is so, ed? As for Eric Holder, he should not have been nominated nor approved because of his part in Clinton's mass pardons at the end of his 2nd term. Note the Wash Post headlined an article today saying he was the first Black Attorney General. Still waiting for a headline stating Steele is the first Black Chair of the Republican Party. Things seem to be "historic" only when it concerns Democrats. Again, if true, what do you think the reason for this is? |
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Post by badgerhoya on Feb 3, 2009 20:01:20 GMT -5
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Post by SirSaxa on Feb 3, 2009 21:10:11 GMT -5
But if you only listen to Rush and watch Fox Faux News, how would you know? |
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EasyEd
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Post by EasyEd on Feb 4, 2009 13:33:53 GMT -5
Some people need to get over the belief that conservatives only listen to Rush and Fox News. I happen to get my news primarily from the Washington Post, the local NBC affiliate in DC and from scouring the internet (including HoyaTalk). I NEVER listen to Fox News. I do sometimes tune into Rush or the other conservative talks shows but only for short periods; how else would I get a view that is not from the left?
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Post by SirSaxa on Feb 4, 2009 13:46:30 GMT -5
Some people need to get over the belief that conservatives only listen to Rush and Fox News. I happen to get my news primarily from the Washington Post, the local NBC affiliate in DC and from scouring the internet (including HoyaTalk). I NEVER listen to Fox News. I do sometimes tune into Rush or the other conservative talks shows but only for short periods; how else would I get a view that is not from the left? You could try reading the WSJ rather than listening to a radio psycho who publicly proclaims his deepest desire is to see the President of the United States of America fail. |
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Post by Jack on Feb 4, 2009 15:49:09 GMT -5
Some people need to get over the belief that conservatives only listen to Rush and Fox News. I happen to get my news primarily from the Washington Post, the local NBC affiliate in DC and from scouring the internet (including HoyaTalk). I NEVER listen to Fox News. I do sometimes tune into Rush or the other conservative talks shows but only for short periods; how else would I get a view that is not from the left? You could try reading the WSJ rather than listening to a radio psycho who publicly proclaims his deepest desire is to see the President of the United States of America fail. Except that the WSJ of Rupert Murdoch now believes that the aforementioned radio psycho should be writing op-ed's on economic policy. |
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EasyEd
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Post by EasyEd on Feb 4, 2009 19:21:52 GMT -5
Some people need to get over the belief that conservatives only listen to Rush and Fox News. I happen to get my news primarily from the Washington Post, the local NBC affiliate in DC and from scouring the internet (including HoyaTalk). I NEVER listen to Fox News. I do sometimes tune into Rush or the other conservative talks shows but only for short periods; how else would I get a view that is not from the left? You could try reading the WSJ rather than listening to a radio psycho who publicly proclaims his deepest desire is to see the President of the United States of America fail. Might help if you listened to or read the entire comment of the "radio psycho" before quoting a part of it. |
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