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Inquisition. Amazing isnt it that Jesus really likes it when you burn
people, torture people, etc. i still think faggot is a badge of honor to me.
However, as pointed out above "Magic Negro" does describe a certain stereotype that many do find offensive: that of the simple-minded yet wise African-American with vaguely alluded to supernatural powers. Think the Michael Clarke Duncan character in The Green Mile.
The song is lampooning Al Sharpton, (and implicitly the rest of the race-baiting guilt-trip peddlers like Jesse Jackson), because of their obvious jealousy of Obama.
So you're saying that black people are inherently violent? Yikes!
Check out Thomas DiLorenzo's book "The Real Lincoln". You'll get quite a few surprises.
Am I hopeless naive? Of course.
In my long, liberal lifetime of "accepted" terminology, it started with "Don't say colored. Say Negro."
Then it went from Negro to Afro-American, and Afro-American to Black.
Now, I still stumble over African-American" most of the time, and revert to saying Black.
If I have to say anything at all, which is indicative of the problem.
Oh well.
But maybe words can only be read and comprehended if they support your twisted hypothesis.
2 -- The premise of the song is that "real" black people shouldn't support Obama because he not an "authentic" black man.
A white guy pretending to be black telling people not to vote for Obama because he's not "really" black -- what could possibly be considered racist about that?
It's idiots like you that make the GOP what they are today: not only a refuge for the country's intolerant, greedy, bigoted and cluless but a dump for the "All American" closet queens and their wives and self-loathing "colored" folk.
Here's your one finger salute as you circle the bowl on your way to oblivion.
If so, I'm stunned -- do you not get sarcasm?
I would have thought my disagreement with Blackwell's comments about "Barack the Magic Negro" song were self evident. I guess you didn't go to my blog and read my posts so you could get a clear picture of my political point of view. I guess you're just not bright enough to get sarcasm.
Maybe Jack J.'s post is just really really bad snark?
Obama: "Hamas must stop firing rockets into Israel."
... except Obama isn't president
... or commander in chief.
But those with Obama Derangement Syndrome will blame him for not being president yet anyway.
BTW Mirth, where do you see that Obama's even said ""Hamas must stop firing rockets into Israel"? All I've seen is this: "Yesterday, Obama's transition team was more cautious, adhering to its policy of not commenting on foreign developments because there should be "one president at a time." Brooke Anderson, Obama's national security spokeswoman, said only that Obama "is closely monitoring global events, including the situation in Gaza."
So where did you get your quote from?
I did not save the news article where yesterday I read the quote from Obama, so I cannot link it here.
However, in July Obama said this:
"I don't think any country would find it acceptable to have missiles raining down on the heads of their citizens," he said. "The first job of any nation state is to protect its citizens. And so I can assure you that if -- I don't even care if I was a politician -- if somebody was sending rockets into my house where my two daughters sleep at night, I'm going to do everything in my power to stop that. And I would expect Israelis to do the same thing."
And in March Obama said this:
"The violence in Gaza is the result of Hamas's decision to launch rocket attacks on Israeli civilians, and Israel has a right to defend itself."
Quoting Alex Koppleman in this current Salon article:
In fact, he also said [in March] something that sounds nearly identical to what Bush spokesperson Johndroe said today about civilian casualties. Said Obama, "I remain very concerned about the fate of civilians and urge Israel to do all it can to avoid civilian deaths and to keep its focus on Hamas, which bears responsibility for these events."
So you tell me, how does Obama's statements regards Israel/Hamas differ from those of Bush and the accepted AIPAC party line?
The rest of your comment is undeserving of a reply.
He didn't say what I said he said, but I don't like him so there!
No one...Bush or Obama, should be for raining down missiles on a civilian population. Nor should they be approving Israel's indiscriminate airstrikes. do you have any evidence that Oama is doing so?
Bet he shines shoes on the weekends.
I heard Alberto now trims the Bushes.
This can only serve to marginalize the Republican party further.
Bigotry is a luxury for idiots. Most people look at that kind of politics and figure that's what has moved us onto the brink of disaster.
On a personal level I don't like it, but on a personal level I love seeing the Republican party further self destruct. No reasonable person is going to take a leadership position in that party. (Actually the last election proved that - they're a party of clowns now). They are becoming a party of the trite. Long may they trite.
They simply can not move past the 20% electorate who still believe Bush is a great president, god belongs in the Oval Office, blacks need to stay in ghettos, Mexicans are destroying our economy, gays want to "convert" their youth....
I can understand it with Rush. 20% is a huge audience, but Blackwell and the Republican leadership need to understand by doing the same thing over and over, a new result will be unlikely.
The word "negro" does not just slip from the lips of anyone under 70 years old, especially if they are one of today's Republican "tool". They know that word will remind Blacks that of the insult discrimination and white dominance, they KNOW this.
That is why the word is used, not as satire (Limbaugh wouldn't know satire if it came in a pill) but to play to the racist. John A. is right, call a Black person "negro" the get ready for either a verbal or physical punch in the face.
As for Blackwell, the "Uncle Tom" had more self respect. You know damn well he's been called worse thatn "negro" by his fellow Repukeblicans.
I think it's rather racist of you to presume that black people are so easily provoked.
Why even mention him? He's irrelevant, he threw an election.
But getting back to the "N" word, I remember the old candy called "Ni**er Babies". In my family they were known as "Black Babies", and I didn't know any differently until I learned to read. When I finally asked my mother about it she said, "We don't use that word." It's amazing to me now that a candy with that name existed in the 1950's.
least as important as the actual wording, though.
I think it is fair to say you can use "Uncle Tom" and Ken Blackwell in the same sentence.
What degradation will Ken stoop to next to fit in with his Republican brothers, offer to shine their shoes?
Stowe's book Uncle Tom's Cabin you will find that Uncle Tom was the premier Christian of all times. It was Black short White-Buffon named Sambo Freeman who went and tell Massa everything what Uncle Tom and the other slaves were doing. That's the real true story. You have been deceived between Uncle Tom and Sambo.
Uncle Tom was the good guy. He would not kneel down to his white master and his master whipped him to death. Another thing his master Simon Legree hated Uncle Tom Christianity. Simon Legree was a Barbarian and Demonic. Since you got a computer look it up and you'll see what I'm talking about. So please stop letting those words out of your mouth. If you believe what other people tell you, then you are a victim as well. So go to KEYWORD and type in Uncle Tom's Cabin and you will find a lot of information letting you know the truth. I once believed it myself until I started a search about 30 years ago.
so while i myself wouldn't use the phrase, it isn't nearly as taboo as say, using the "n" word in some circles.
They are saying, 'forget the night;
Come live with us in forests of azure;
Out here on the perimeter there are no stars;
Out here we is stone, immaculate'..."
(Jim Morrison, "Texas Radio and the Big Beat")
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