--- In [email protected], "Alex Stanley" <j_alexander_stan...@...> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > A few leftists are puffing up their "we're so > > affronted" feathers over Chip Saltsman's Xmas > > gift to other RNC members, a CD of parody music > > that includes one song called "Barack the Magic > > Negro." > > > > > http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/rnc-candidate-distributes-controversial-obama-song-2008-12-26.html > > > > In the past, some of our pseudo-feminists here > > have claimed that supporters of Obama would be > > as outraged over a racial slur aimed at him as > > they are (or pretend to be) about so-called > > gender slurs aimed at Hillary. Well, we're > > about to find out. > > One thing to keep in mind is that David Ehrenstein, the guy who > originated the "Barack the Magic Negro" meme, is an African-American.
He's African-American but he did not originate the meme. Here are his own words: ---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." ~~ David Ehrenstein, LA Times, March 19, 2007 http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-ehrenstein19mar19,0,5335087.story
