http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/magicnegro/ en-us Tue, 8 Dec 2009 17:39:37 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2402959/posts An interesting comment from CPR: I can't speak for all white people, but I think white people want the Magic Negro because they want forgiveness. Obama's election and some of the incredibly weird things I heard some white people say about it made me realize that there is a fundamental injury that all americans carry with them (slavery and its aftermath) that has never been addressed adequately, and on the white side of the street, there is more unexplored/unexpressed guilt (which morphs into defensiveness or fear pretty easily) than I ever would have guessed. So in an archetypal way, the... The Atlantic http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2402959/posts#comment Tue, 8 Dec 2009 17:39:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2362246/posts Ever since it was learned that radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh was attempting to buy a share of the St. Louis Rams NFL franchise there has been a steady drumbeat to prevent this. The approach of those who oppose this is fairly predictable. They use race-baiting. There is a certain element in the United States – and you can add Western Europe – that labels as racism any criticism or parody of any issue or person who is African-American or Hispanic-American. Occasionally, this accusation is justified. Most of the time it is not, it is simply a smear tactic... Tea Time Blog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2362246/posts#comment Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:07:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2355702/posts NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - The United States is the most admired country globally thanks largely to the star power of President Barack Obama and his administration, according to a new poll. It climbed from seventh place last year, ahead of France, Germany, the United Kingdom and Japan which completed the top five nations in the Nation Brand Index (NBI). "What's really remarkable is that in all my years studying national reputation, I have never seen any country experience such a dramatic change in its standing as we see for the United States for 2009," said Simon Anholt, the founder... Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2355702/posts#comment Tue, 6 Oct 2009 03:35:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2322274/posts The White House hired a private communications company based in Minnesota to distribute mass e-mails, helping to shed light on how some recipients received e-mails in support of President Obama's health care plan without signing up for them, FOX News has learned. Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2322274/posts#comment Sat, 22 Aug 2009 22:05:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2274498/posts Morgan Freeman, 72, has allegedly been carrying on an affair with his step-granddaughter, E'Dena Hines, 27, according to the National Enquirer. The report alleges that the affair began when Hines was in her teens. Examiner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2274498/posts#comment Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:48:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2224883/posts Turkish Flash T.V. MOCKS U.S President Obama LiveLEak http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2224883/posts#comment Wed, 8 Apr 2009 15:39:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2201957/posts Barack Obama is a great pretender. He constantly says he's doing things that he isn't, and he relies on his powerful rhetoric to obscure the difference. He has made "responsibility" a personal theme, and the budget's cover line is "A New Era of Responsibility." He claims that the budget begins "making the tough choices necessary to restore fiscal discipline." It doesn't. If Obama were "responsible," he would be leading a candid conversation about government's size and role. Who deserves support and why? How big can government grow before higher taxes and deficits harm long-term economic growth? Although Obama claims to... Newsweek http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2201957/posts#comment Sun, 8 Mar 2009 17:04:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2174712/posts Chip Saltsman, the candidate for national Republican chairman who came under fire for distributing a holiday CD with the parody song “Barack the Magic Negro,” dropped out of the contest Thursday night. Mr. Saltsman, who is the Tennessee Republican chairman, sent an e-mail message to members of the Republican National Committee announcing his decision. The message made no mention of why he was dropping out, but Republicans have said for days that Mr. Saltsman was struggling to collect enough signatures to qualify for the ballot. The vote is on Friday in Washington. Mr. Saltsman was always viewed as something of... NY TImes Politics Blog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2174712/posts#comment Fri, 30 Jan 2009 03:51:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2167725/posts "There is such excitement in this town, with millions coming in," gushed Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who was accepting an arts award Monday from the U.S. Conference of Mayors. "All these people coming in to see me get this award, it makes me ecstatic," the governor joked to the mayors at the Capitol Hilton, with inaugural crowds filling the streets outside. Schwarzenegger was given the award for public leadership in the arts because of his support for art and music programs in the schools — programs that face cuts because of the state's budget crisis. The governor talked about the painting,... Mercury News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2167725/posts#comment Tue, 20 Jan 2009 00:08:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2158676/posts Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich doesn't have many friends these days, particularly among the lawmakers who will decide whether to throw him out of office. Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2158676/posts#comment Sun, 4 Jan 2009 22:45:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2158058/posts The distribution of a song titled "Barack the Magic Negro" by a candidate for chairman of the national Republican Party has created an unnecessary distraction as the party rebuilds, Virginia GOP chairman Jeff Frederick said yesterday. "There's a lot of things we need to be fighting about, and this isn't one of them," Frederick said in an interview. On another matter, Frederick complained that critics of the Republican Party use a double standard when judging political outreach to minorities. Tennessee political operative Chip Saltsman, one of six candidates for the GOP's national chairmanship, mailed a CD last month to members... Richmond Times-Dispatch http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2158058/posts#comment Sat, 3 Jan 2009 14:49:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2157950/posts Here's a debate that strikes a familiar chord. When do song lyrics that are meant to be entertaining hit a sour note and become offensive? Many conservatives think rap music crosses the line. In 1992, the rapper Ice-T released an album featuring the song "Cop Killer," which President George H.W. Bush called a threat to police officers. After law enforcement associations boycotted his record label, Time Warner, Ice-T pulled the song from the album. During those skirmishes in the culture wars, you would hear liberals defend the creative process, praise the First Amendment, and dismissively tell anyone who was offended... Sacramento Bee http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2157950/posts#comment Sat, 3 Jan 2009 04:22:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2157377/posts The Republican Party paid a steep price for race-baiting in the presidential campaign. Remember the ferocious backlash against the California Republican group that produced a racist newsletter depicting Barack Obama on a food stamp, surrounded by images of fried chicken and watermelon? Then there were those two congressmen who were rightly excoriated for condemning Mr. Obama’s candidacy in the language of the Jim Crow South — one describing him as a “boy” and the other as “uppity.” We thought after all that — and, oh yes, losing the election — everyone in the Republican Party leadership would have figured out... The New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2157377/posts#comment Thu, 1 Jan 2009 23:37:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2157156/posts I’m afraid I must disagree with the great conservative writer Larry Elder, whose January 1 column (“Barack the Magic Negro-gate”) on the controversy surrounding would-be Republican National Committee chairman Chip Saltsman misses the point about why Saltsman’s actions were so misguided. Elder correctly notes that it was a black liberal writer, David Ehrenstein, who originally started the “Magic Negro” controversy with a March 2007 Los Angeles Times piece attacking Obama as a candidate whose hopes for victory depended upon exploiting white guilt. “The article produced virtually no outcry,” Elder writes. “Conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh then aired a [Paul... Human Events http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2157156/posts#comment Thu, 1 Jan 2009 14:27:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2157093/posts This is how the whole thing started. David Ehrenstein, a writer who happens to be black and liberal, wrote an opinion piece in March 2007 in the Los Angeles Times called "Obama the 'Magic Negro.'" He argued that whites, according to sociologists, stereotype blacks as "dangerous." But whites consider Obama accessible, likeable and "benign." This, according to Ehrenstein, explains Obama's "crossover" appeal. The article insults a) Obama, by virtually ignoring his effectiveness as a candidate, b) whites, by accusing them of voting for Obama merely to assuage their own guilt, and c) Sidney Poitier, the brilliant, groundbreaking actor, for ascribing... IBD Editorials http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2157093/posts#comment Thu, 1 Jan 2009 06:01:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2156760/posts Here's a debate that strikes a familiar chord. When do song lyrics that are meant to be entertaining hit a sour note and become offensive? Many conservatives think rap music crosses the line. In 1990, Republican officials in Broward County, Fla., declared obscene an album by the group 2 Live Crew and sheriff's deputies arrested members of the group after a performance. In 1992, the rapper Ice-T released an album featuring the song “Cop Killer,” which President George H.W. Bush called a threat to police officers. After law enforcement associations boycotted his record label, Time Warner, Ice-T pulled the song... San Diego Union Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2156760/posts#comment Wed, 31 Dec 2008 16:36:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/2156272/posts NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Democratic House Speaker Jimmy Naifeh is calling on Tennessee Republican leaders to renounce former state GOP leader Chip Saltsman in the wake of a music parody of President-elect Barack Obama. . . . He sent committee members a CD this Christmas featuring a 2007 song called "Barack the Magic Negro." The parody is sung to the music of "Puff, the Magic Dragon." AP via Boston Herald http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/2156272/posts#comment Tue, 30 Dec 2008 19:15:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2156045/posts The media created controversy surrounding a comedy CD distributed by Republican National Committee chair candidate Chip Saltsman has not torpedoed his bid and might have inadvertently helped it. Four days after news broke that the former Tennessee GOP chairman had sent a CD that included a song titled “Barack the Magic Negro” to the RNC members he is courting, some of those officials are rallying around the embattled Saltsman, with a few questioning whether the national media and his opponents are piling on. “When I heard about the story I had to figure out what was going on for myself,”... Mlive http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2156045/posts#comment Tue, 30 Dec 2008 11:43:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2155656/posts AS EVERY CARBON-BASED life form on this planet surely knows, Barack Obama, the junior Democratic senator from Illinois, is running for president. Since making his announcement, there has been no end of commentary about him in all quarters — musing over his charisma and the prospect he offers of being the first African American to be elected to the White House. LA Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2155656/posts#comment Mon, 29 Dec 2008 18:28:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2155649/posts The GOP has once again shown why it is the stupid party. Chip Salsman wants to run the GOP, so he plied potential voters with a Paul Shanklin CD that included the song "Barack the Magic Negro." It is a political parody based upon an LA Times opinion piece of the same name. The leadership was caught flat-footed and red-handed, and is now scrambling, crab-like, to defend itself. Here's part of the hollow, vacuous statement from flaccid, ineffectual party chairman Mike Duncan: "I am shocked and appalled that anyone would think this is appropriate as it clearly does not move... Nietzsche is Dead http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2155649/posts#comment Mon, 29 Dec 2008 18:17:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2155648/posts Parody author defends 'Barack the Magic Negro' December 29, 2008 12:35 EST MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- The Memphis author of the musical parody "Barack the Magic Negro" says he isn't surprised the song has gotten some people upset. Author Paul Shanklin describes the song as political satire and says it's supposed to be provocative. The song, which is sung to the tune of "Puff the Magic Dragon, has drawn attention and criticism since Chip Saltsman -- the former head of the Republican Party in Tennessee -- sent out a CD with the song on it as Christmas presents. Saltsman managed... WZTV-Fox 17 Nashville http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2155648/posts#comment Mon, 29 Dec 2008 18:16:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2155002/posts The chairman of the Republican National Committee said he was "appalled" by a song called "Barack the Magic Negro" on a CD distributed by one of his political rivals. "The 2008 election was a wake-up call for Republicans to reach out and bring more people into our party," RNC Chairman Mike Duncan said in a statement reported Saturday afternoon by Politico. "I am shocked and appalled that anyone would think this is appropriate, as it clearly does not move us in the right direction." Chip Saltsman sent RNC members the parody CD "We Hate the USA" for Christmas, which includes... cnn http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2155002/posts#comment Sat, 27 Dec 2008 23:23:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2155644/posts The chairman of the Republican National Committee said he was "appalled" by a song called "Barack the Magic Negro" on a CD distributed by one of his political rivals. "The 2008 election was a wake-up call for Republicans to reach out and bring more people into our party," RNC Chairman Mike Duncan said in a statement reported Saturday afternoon by Politico. "I am shocked and appalled that anyone would think this is appropriate, as it clearly does not move us in the right direction." Chip Saltsman sent RNC members the parody CD "We Hate the USA" for Christmas, which includes... CNN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2155644/posts#comment Mon, 29 Dec 2008 18:12:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2155577/posts Being right on the merits doesn't make Saltsman any less of an idiot Two days ago, we suggested that a potential GOP leader is severely tone-deaf, hitting Chip Saltsman for his foolish decision to include the "magic negro" song on the CD his people sent out.We were not saying Saltsman was a racist, or commneting on the merits of the song. We were saying he should have seen this firestorm coming.Frances Rice, chairman of the National Black Republican Association, just sent out an email defending Saltsman on the merits. Included therein is the following: If it were not so hypocritical,... Modern Conservative http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2155577/posts#comment Mon, 29 Dec 2008 15:58:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2155568/posts An offensive, racially tinged song entitled Barack the Magic Negro has become an issue in the battle for the leadership of the Republican party. The song was included in a CD distributed by Chip Saltman, who is seeking to be elected the next party chairman. Saltman, former campaign manager for Mike Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor who fought unsuccessfully for the Republican presidential nomination this year, sent out the CD as a Christmas present to party members. It is a compilation of songs critical of liberals entitled We Hate the US. He defended his move, saying that anyone listening to... Guardian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2155568/posts#comment Mon, 29 Dec 2008 15:28:53 GMT