Comments on: Magic Negro-gate: How Liberals Confused Obama With Kazaam

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 19:16:40 +0000

Dude! I had no idea!
I’m guessing Morgan Freeman is largely responsible for this phenomenon…

And Madonna, too.
Wow, I was really sure that was racist… o_O

By: Sport

Sport — Wed, 27 May 2009 03:13:17 +0000

Ha!

You would think that they world have OK’d it at the beginning instead of allowing it to go so long without saying a thing and then bringing it back up when it was too late. I don’t understand it at all. Testosterone Enhancement

By: jjabrams

jjabrams — Thu, 14 May 2009 04:34:43 +0000

@ blackflag
Why would the republicans produce and distribute a song for the sole reason that it contains negro and obama in the same sentence? That makes no fucking sense. say what you will about the republicans, but they have some pretty keen political strategists. and publicizing a song for the sole reason that it uses vaguely racist terminology in reference to obama would be a suicidal move, unless they actually meant something else by it. which they did.
use your brain, dipshit. i’m in no way a republican, but nor am i dumb or elitist enough to simplify a complicated foe.

By: Angel

Angel — Sat, 02 May 2009 23:13:44 +0000

This was a very interesting and amusing post. I have to disagree with you, though, about the Republicans use of the term not being offensive. You seem to assume that A) they are familiar with the literary use of the term and B) that was the meaning that was intended. Just because the term traditionally has a non-offensive usage does not mean that their use of it wasn’t meant to be demeaning.

By: janeyp

janeyp — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 23:45:02 +0000

The best thing to come out of the Obama presidency so far is all the right wing crazies who try to turn his name into a pun. “Obambi”, really? I don’t know what’s worse; that or “Oblahblah.”

That being said, he’s an asshole like every other politician, and this was a great article.

By: yesbutnotyou

yesbutnotyou — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:36:29 +0000

I had to literally bite the inside of my cheeks to keep from screaming out with laughter here at work. I’m black and I really enjoyed this article. I also like to think of myself as magical.

By: blackflag49

blackflag49 — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 03:44:13 +0000

Oh gimme a break.

“Paul Shanklin didn’t write this song to critique a post-modern theory of african-american portrayals in popular American film.

Rush Limbaugh didn’t play it because he thought it raised some good points about liberals’ over-expectations of Obama.

Chip Saltsman didn’t distribute the song because he thought it showcased a new idea for Republican strategy.

They wrote, played and distributed the song because it gave them the opportunity to use the words ‘Barack’ and ‘negro’ in the same sentence.”

^This x100.

By: Don't Give up

Don't Give up — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 02:14:48 +0000

Don’t be afraid to write more political articles man, this shit was pure gold (like all of your stuff really).

By: Not Quite

Not Quite — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 18:26:54 +0000

Pretty entertaining, but not as dead on as I might have hoped. Saying that its not insulting to call Barack Obama a Magic Negro, is kind of like saying Margaret Thatcher was a good Prime Minister…… for a woman. But wait, she was a really smart and capable woman who was actually better than a lot of the men. It’s still incredibly insulting.

And although there certainly is room to intelligently discuss the parallels of Obama being a real-life Magical Negro without having to be labeled a racist, I have to go with Dirtmo on this. Limbaugh is not exactly the academic type.

Granted, irrational hippie liberals who don’t know what they’re talking about should be made fun of mercilessly. However, relegating the most powerful man on the planet to a servile position because of his race is probably a reasonable thing to get worked up about.

By: Sheeni

Sheeni — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 05:37:45 +0000

Fucking brilliant!