The original Magic Negro in politics was Colin Powell. But his magic wore off awhile back.
Is there a transcript somewhere? I don’t have sound on my PC.
Regards,
Shodan
And two of them were **BrainGlutton ** and elucidator, who long ago lost their “give anyone who has an opposing political viewpoint a fair shake” abilities.
So you’re saying this should be moved to GD? What a mean thing to do to the OP. 
You know, one of these days you are going to have to get something newer than that TRS-80 … 
If that’s true, it sounds like it’s OK for Chris Rock to say it but not Rush Limbag. I guess now you have to check your own skin before you open your own mouth.
I disagree with Ehrenstein. Yes, Obama is popular partially because there’s an excitement and mystique around the first Black man with a real shot at becoming president, but there’s a reason he was chosen over Sharpton or Jackson, and why he’s still holding his own over Hillary (the first woman with a shot, probably just as potent or more so): He’s the most charismatic politician I’ve seen in my lifetime.
If he was white, he’d by almost as exciting, and getting almost as much attention.
Rush knows this, and is attempted to drum up anti-Obama sentiment simultaneously among racists (by pointing out that he’s Black) and Blacks (by pointing out that he’s not really Black). It won’t work though. Obama is just too fucking charming.
And I would have to say that the woman in The Stand was the ultimate example. I mean, she led the forces of good in the Apocalypse from her rocking chair, fer chrissakes. Or possibly, for Christ’s sake.
Based on what? It doesn’t appear that there are waves of hatred being directed against Rush over this (as opposed to Don Imus, who said something legitimately racist and earned himself a media firestorm for it), so what’s the evidence for your claim? Or is it that you just want to jump on this increasingly tiresome anti-“PC” bandwagon and you don’t care whether reality is on your side or not? Not an uncommon phenomenon, but when you’re resorting to ignoring the truth in making an argument, shouldn’t that be a bit of a red flag that maybe your argument has some holes in it?
I agree with Excalibre, and will add that of course some people are able to say certain things without giving offense that other people cannot. This is called life.
There are certain jokesters here on the Dope that could make a rough comment, and everyone would assume they’re kidding around. There are other known assholes, and if they made the exact same comment in the exact same context, people would assume they’re being an asshole. And there are certain secular saints that if they made the same comment it would be taken as tough love. And so on.
Rush Limbaugh is a right-wing blowhard. I don’t think he’s particularly racist, but right wing blowhards don’t get cut any slack when they natter about racial issues, and the reasons this is true are obvious, given the last couple hundred years of race relations in this country. Chris Rock is, you know, a negro himself, and so people are going to assume that he’s not a self-loathing anti-black bigot unless he goes out of his way to prove it over and over again.
See how this works?
I think you’re right about that, and it’s a shame. Because all it does is extend the problem. If people are to be tied to artifacts of history and never allowed to escape those bounds, then I’d like to talk to some of y’all about those small pox blankets and whatnot. 
It might be minor, but one thing I just really don’t get about Ehrenstein’s column is this (bolding mine)
I don’t have any pictures to prove it, but I’d be pretty damn surprised if Magic Johnson hasn’t slept with a white woman or two.
Whoa – none of the above? I don’t have an opinion, I don’t have a dog in this fight, I’m not a fan of Rock, Limbaugh or even Imus. I’d rather have an ice cream cone than listen to either of them. I just put forward a point of view that needs to be considered. I don’t condone the actions of either party.
But what does frost my buttons more than anything is hypocrisy.
Having read Ehrenstein’s original column now, and having read long portions of Limbaugh’s response to it, the main thing that strikes me is Limbaugh’s complete lack of intellectual honesty.
Rush uses Ehrenstein’s column as a basis, first, to claim that Ehrenstein’s calling white liberals racists:
Find that in Ehrenstein’s column? I couldn’t.
Then he goes on to adopt the claim as his own:
Examples? Yeh, right.
Obviously, it would help to know if these other columns besides Ehrenstein’s exist. But Ehrenstein, who’s black and so has some standing to challenge Obama’s ‘authenticity,’ doesn’t do so but notes that others do.
How does Rush know this? He doesn’t say. He doesn’t have to.
Got that? The L.A. Times, which earlier in Limbaugh’s spiel was racist, is now blaming a bunch of white people for being racist.
It’s hard enough to read transcripts of this bullshit. If I had to listen to Limbaugh over the radio, there’d soon be one less radio.
But…but you told me years ago you were an Austrian!
Yeah, nothing tops The Stand. In fact, Mother Abigal so completely embodies this character type that it makes me wonder if she could have been written as a parody.
“And Ah still make me own biscuits.” Hello? Why do all the Magical Negroes have to talk like slaves, Stephen? You pulled the same damn stunt in The Green Mile. And The Dark Tower Series.
Mother Abigail == The Oracle from The Matrix trilogy.
Wait, that’s not right. Mother Abigail bakes biscuits. The Oracle bakes cookies. Never mind then.
I’m also a street car conductor and a brain surgeon.
Apologies to Jethro Bodine.
I never thought of it as “talking like slaves” but talking like down home. The characters spoke like other people would have from that same background. Mother Abigail was raised on a homestead. There are some black people who do still have that very home-y way of talking.
Several of the black women with whom I suffered through basics did, and they weren’t “talking like slaves”. I’m pretty sure they’d have been insulted if someone had said they did.
I thought it was comforting and sweet. A DAMNED sight better than that gangsta ghetto crap that half our young people use, regardless of whether they are black, white, or green!
Probably cause there aren’t any black people in Maine.
Oh Lord. I think my eyes have caught a sprain from rolling so hard.