I wrote this post in March of 2007. Given GOP candidate Chip Saltsman’s decision to distribute Rush Limbaugh radio show humor to colleagues, I thought ‘A magic negro?’ was worth revisiting. As always, I’d appreciate your comments.
Yesterday, the Los Angeles Times published a highly offensive, overly simplistic piece about Barack Obama. Titled “Obama, the Magical Negro”, it makes no difference that the author, David Ehrenstein, is African American. Ehrenstein doesn’t get it. The term ‘magic Negro’ was coined in the 1950’s to describe a particular kind of black presence in …