I guess commonly referring to the president as the magic negro isn't racist one bit.
I think it was that bastion of PC liberalism, The Los Angeles Times, that made the first widely circulated reference to Obama as "the magic negro." We could look it up, but it seems to have occurred during his first campaign to become POTUS, and was supposed to be part of his campaign appeal and strategy. Seems to have worked (twice).
"Barack the Magic Negro"[2] is a song by American political satirist Paul Shanklin who wrote and recorded it for the Rush Limbaugh Show as satire after the title phrase was first applied to presidential candidate Obama by movie and culture critic David Ehrenstein in a Los Angeles Times op ed column of March 19, 2007.
The Magical Negro is a supporting stock character in American cinema who is portrayed as coming to the aid of a film's white protagonists.[1] These characters, who often possess special insight or mystical powers, have been a long tradition in American fiction.[2
Excerpt from the Times column 03/19/07:
Like a comic-book superhero, Obama is there to help, out of the sheer goodness of a heart we need not know or understand. For as with all Magic Negroes, the less real he seems, the more desirable he becomes. If he were real, white America couldn't project all its fantasies of curative black benevolence on him.
Doesn't sound one bit racist in that original context, does it?
