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RNC chairman condemns controversial Obama song

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RNC chairman condemns controversial Obama song - CNN.com

Cudos to the Rep. Chairman for condemning this. Incredible that saltsman actually thought it could help him. Almost as incredible as the fact that this song has been played on conservative talk shows for some time already.

There are plenty of people that consider the Republican Party to be the place to be if you have racist tendencies. That's something the GOP needs to get away from, IMO. This doesn't help.
 
RNC chairman condemns controversial Obama song - CNN.com

Cudos to the Rep. Chairman for condemning this. Incredible that saltsman actually thought it could help him. Almost as incredible as the fact that this song has been played on conservative talk shows for some time already.

There are plenty of people that consider the Republican Party to be the place to be if you have racist tendencies. That's something the GOP needs to get away from, IMO. This doesn't help.

I haven't heard the song, but I am just guessing that anything titled "Barack the Magic Negro" would likely be racist on some level. However, from the article, the song's defenders are saying that the song is about how Obama supposedly appeals to whites who wallow in racial guilt. If that's all the further the song goes, then I can't see racism. While I strenuously disagree, I don't see how it necessarily requires a person to be racist in order to think it.

On the other hand, if the song claims that that is Obama's only, or even major, appeal, I would have to start wondering. I mean, if a person can't see Obama's intelligence and leadership level charisma even if you hate the fact that he has those things because you disagree with him, then that person is blinded by something.
 
Gee....I wish they would quit playing this "racist" song on the radio.


Santana:Black Magic Woman

"Got a black magic woman
Got a black magic woman.

I got a black magic woman
Got me so blind I can't see
That she's a black magic woman
She's tryin' to make a devil out of me.

Don't turn your back on me baby
Don't turn your back on me baby.

Yes, don't turn your back on me baby
Stop messin' 'round with your tricks
Don't turn your back on me baby
You just might pick up my magic sticks.

Got your spell on me baby
Got your spell on me baby.

Yes you got your spell on me baby
Turning my heart into stone
I need you so bad - magic woman
I can't leave you alone. "
 
Gee....I wish they would quit playing this "racist" song on the radio.


LOL, Comrade. The woman is NOT black (at least the song does not give any indication of race), but she does perform "black magic."

Can't wait to get your interpretation of "Back in Black" and "Paint it Black." :doh
 
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I haven't heard the song, but I am just guessing that anything titled "Barack the Magic Negro" would likely be racist on some level. However, from the article, the song's defenders are saying that the song is about how Obama supposedly appeals to whites who wallow in racial guilt. If that's all the further the song goes, then I can't see racism. While I strenuously disagree, I don't see how it necessarily requires a person to be racist in order to think it.

On the other hand, if the song claims that that is Obama's only, or even major, appeal, I would have to start wondering. I mean, if a person can't see Obama's intelligence and leadership level charisma even if you hate the fact that he has those things because you disagree with him, then that person is blinded by something.


I'd be totally fine with this had the Democrats come up with "Dubya, the Dumbass Redneck," but alas, they didn't. :2razz:
 
Maybe this will put some light on it....





Obama the 'Magic Negro' - Los Angeles Times

Well, if that article is half true, I think both the song and the article point to something Rush Limbaugh doesn't expect: That the election of Obama doesn't really prove much.

Here it is: I have seen many well meaning liberals and alot of responsibility avoiding conservatives touting the election of Obama as proof that America has put it's racist past behind us. In fact, if Obama appeals to anyone as a "Magic Negro" it is the conservatives who don't want to hear anymore about racism, and see Obama's election despite their objections as a way out of it.

But, the fact remains that only a majority of Americans need to be non-racist in order to elect a black president, and they don't even need to be the Americans who hold the keys to personal advancement.
 
RNC Chairman has no balls, it's a HILARIOUS song...

This is why the GOP Brand is dying, it's run by goofs like this turd bucket.
 
I mean, if a person can't see Obama's intelligence and leadership level charisma even if you hate the fact that he has those things because you disagree with him, then that person is blinded by something.
I present the inverse: That someone who sees such things when examining such a non-entity is probably delusional at best.

I am hardly blinded, I just look at what is really there, in this case very little.
 
LOL, Comrade. The woman is NOT black (at least the song does not give any indication of race), but she does perform "black magic."

Can't wait to get your interpretation of "Back in Black" and "Paint it Black." :doh

O.K. how about the stupidity of lefty`s interpretationg this song.


Black Betty
by
Ram Jam
Album: Ram Jam Released: 1977
US Chart: 18 UK Chart: 7



Songfacts: You can leave comments about the song at the bottom of the page.

This is a traditional song that Folk singer Leadbelly popularized before his death in 1949. He recorded a lot of songs that otherwise might have been lost, including "Goodnight Irene" and "Midnight Special." Leadbelly's version is a cappella and commonly sung by laborers to pass the time while working.

Ram Jam were a short-lived band from New York City, and this was their only hit. While the lyrical content is pretty standard Folk/Blues material - about a black woman from Alabama who has a "wild" child, Ram Jam took some heat because some civil rights groups felt the lyrics were disrespectful to black women. While the lyrics can be deconstructed, Ram Jam's version is driven by the powerful beat and aggressive tempo, making it one of those songs that gets your heart beating faster. The song is commonly played at sporting events to pump up the crowd.


This was produced by Jerry Kasenetz and Jeff Katz, who were architects of the Bubblegum Sound, producing groups like The Ohio Express and the 1910 Fruitgum Company.

The Australian band Spiderbait recorded this in 2004. It was their first single to reach #1 on the Australian charts. (thanks, Lynne - Sydney, Australia)

A remixed version of this song is used in the 2002 movie Kung Pow: Enter The Fist when the main character fights the villain. (thanks, Frankie - Sarch, IN)
 
Glad to see the RNC chairman doesn't support racist idiots. Too bad the same can't be said for the other conservatives and Republicans.
 
Glad to see the RNC chairman doesn't support racist idiots. Too bad the same can't be said for the other conservatives and Republicans.

Most Conservatives don't. Just a few in the lunatic fringe, such as Rush.
 
Paul Shanklin and Rush Limbaugh aren't racist. But it's fun to watch the PC sensitives cry about things they say and do.
 
Huh....Spike Lee the black director.......






Magical negro
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The magical negro (sometimes called the mystical negro or magic negro) is a supporting, often mystical stock character in fiction who, by use of special insight or powers, helps the white protagonist get out of trouble. The word negro, now considered by many as archaic and offensive, is used intentionally to suggest that the archetype is a racist throwback, an update of the "Sambo" and "savage other" stereotypes.[1] Spike Lee popularized the term, deriding the archetype of the "super-duper magical negro" in 2001 while discussing films with students at Washington State University and at Yale University.[2][3]
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hahaha...

Nice job condemning a song months after the election and a year after it was actually first thought up. Real good.

Espicially love the people blaming Limbaugh in this thread, when it was a term used about Obama by a news paper editorial, comparing Obama to the "magic negro", which is an established theatrical character of older films and newer (Legend of Bagger Vance is an example of a newer "magic negro" story).

Condemn the song if you want, no problem, but it'd be nice if people actually got pissy about **** with some actual factual knowledge rather than just being bigots themselves by instantly thinking "My god he said negro, RACISTS RACISTS!"
 
OMG a conservative made a song about a "magic negro?" WTF ZOMG RACIST!

That's the basis of this story. The real story is the cowardice of the RNC chair.
 
For those that haven't actually HEARD the damned song, here it is. The "video" is fan made, it's just a full copy of the song.


Yeah, this is just a "racist" song... really.

YouTube - Barack the magic negro
 
For those that haven't actually HEARD the damned song, here it is. The "video" is fan made, it's just a full copy of the song.


Yeah, this is just a "racist" song... really.

YouTube - Barack the magic negro

That's hilarious. A white conservative sings a song about how racially inauthentic Barack Obama is, like he is the authority on who is or isn't racially authentic. The song is absolutely racist. The fact that you don't see it makes you a partisan hack. The fact that the RNC chairman is suddenly offended by it makes him a political strategist, and not a very good one. If someone is going to have the balls to make a racist song in the first place, they should at least have the balls to admit that they are being racist.
 
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Well I just listened to the song and I don't think it is racist, just a pretty lame parody. I will say it is no worse than anything I saw on "In Living Color" or even some SNL skits.

Some people just playing politics again.

It is OK for someone to make a song parody "I Can Do Whatever I'm White" but "Barrack The Magic Negro" is racist? Hypocrisy at it's finest.
 
Yeah. It's not racist, it's just juvenile. It sounds like that guy wrote the lyrics in 5 minutes.

Paul is da bomb, I have all his albums
 
Of course I did, I'm not a thief!

Have you heard some of his other work?

YouTube - Al Gore--Ball of Fire!

LOVE this one.
and that other wasn't Shanklin...

Parody songs are rarely ever that funny to begin with and in those rare instances that they are, the novelty wears off quickly. To make them politically motivated drags them even further into unfunny territory.
 
It just makes me shake my head and chuckle when ignorant PC junkies throw hissy fits over something they don't even understand. They just hear "negro" or "black" and start caterwauling their racism rants.

Too funny.
 
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