{"id":24997,"date":"2011-05-19T05:50:04","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T05:50:04","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-02-04T14:56:13","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T19:56:13","slug":"liberal_calls_obama_magic_negro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2011\/05\/19\/liberal_calls_obama_magic_negro\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberal Calls Obama “Magic Negro”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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RUSH: There\u2019s a fascinating story in the LA Times today. Get this headline. Who wrote this? David Ehrenstein is his name. He\u2019s LA-based, and ‘writes about Hollywood and politics.\u2019 The headline of his column: ‘Obama, the ‘Magic Negro.”<\/p>\n

I kid you not!<\/p>\n

‘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. But it\u2019s clear that Obama also is running for an equally important unelected office, in the province of the popular imagination — the ‘Magic Negro.\u2019 The Magic Negro is a figure of postmodern folk culture, coined by snarky 20th-century sociologists, to explain a cultural figure who emerged in the wake of Brown vs. Board of Education. ‘He has no past, he simply appears one day to help the white protagonist,\u2019 reads the description on Wikipedia. &hellip; He\u2019s there to assuage white ‘guilt\u2019 (i.e., the minimal discomfort they feel) over the role of slavery and racial segregation in American history, while replacing stereotypes of a dangerous, highly sexualized black man with a benign figure for whom interracial sexual congress holds no interest.\u2019<\/p>\n

The problem, Ehrenstein says, is he\u2019s not real. Al Sharpton\u2019s real, Snoop Dogg is real, but Barack Obama is not real. He\u2019s just there to assuage white guilt. In other words, the only reason Obama is anywhere is because whites are willing to support him because they feel so guilty over slavery. Now, before you reject this, Shelby Steele has written a great book about the whole concept of ‘White Guilt\u2019<\/a> and how it is allowing our society to become more and more passive about any number of transgressions that the country has made from its inception. Here\u2019s the close: ‘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\u2019t project all its fantasies of curative black benevolence on him.\u2019<\/p>\n

So, those of you white people out there who are supporting Barack Obama, you are racists. That is the point that David Ehrenstein is making. You\u2019re attempting to assuage all of your white guilt by supporting Obama, is worthless, because you\u2019re just exhibiting racism because you know he\u2019s not a ‘real black.\u2019 As Biden said, he\u2019s ‘clean,\u2019 and ‘articulate.\u2019 What else did he say? Good-looking, articulate, one of the first. But he\u2019s not real. This is more of the drivel and the bilge that we get from the Drive-By Media. In order to be a real black, you gotta be a Sharpton or you\u2019ve gotta be a Snoop Dogg. You gotta be a Ludacris or something like that. Obama can\u2019t possibly fill this role because nobody knows anything about him and we don\u2019t want to know anything about him. The only thing that matters is he\u2019s black and he sounds good and it allows you white racists to assuage your guilt. There is white racism out there, much of it is on the left where the plantation mentality still resides.<\/p>\n

<\/a> ‘Now, let me ask you a question. The term ‘magic negro\u2019 has been thrown into the political presidential race and the mix for 2008, and the term magic negro, as applied to Barack Obama, has been done by an LA Times columnist David Ehrenstein. Do you think, if I keep referring to Obama as ‘the magic negro\u2019 from this day on, I will eventually get the credit and\/or heat for this? Magic negro. It is a term, and it\u2019s exactly as described here. Its purpose is to allow whites the guilt-free support. But in Barack\u2019s case, it\u2019s only because he isn\u2019t a ‘real black.\u2019 The LA Times, by the way, is not first with these types of columns. The LA Times has two or three columns like this: ‘Is Barack Obama Black Enough?\u2019 And so forth. So there\u2019s a racist component out there on the editorial page of the LA Times that\u2019s obsessed with the race of Barack Obama — and as with all leftists, while they are obsessed with race, they\u2019re accusing everybody else of being racists.<\/p>\n

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So, those of you white people out there who are supporting Barack Obama, you are racists. That is the point that David Ehrenstein is making. You\u2019re attempting to assuage all of your white guilt by supporting Obama, is worthless, because you\u2019re just exhibiting racism because you know he\u2019s not a ‘real black.\u2019 As Biden said, he\u2019s ‘clean,\u2019 and ‘articulate.\u2019 What else did he say? Good-looking, articulate, one of the first. But he\u2019s not real. This is more of the drivel and the bilge that we get from the Drive-By Media. In order to be a real black, you gotta be a Sharpton or you\u2019ve gotta be a Snoop Dogg. You gotta be a Ludacris or something like that. Obama can\u2019t possibly fill this role because nobody knows anything about him and we don\u2019t want to know anything about him. The only thing that matters is he\u2019s black and he sounds good and it allows you white racists to assuage your guilt. There is white racism out there, much of it is on the left where the plantation mentality still resides.<\/p>\n

Now, let me ask you a question. The term ‘magic negro\u2019 has been thrown into the political presidential race and the mix for 2008, and the term magic negro, as applied to Barack Obama, has been done by an LA Times columnist David Ehrenstein. Do you think, if I keep referring to Obama as ‘the magic negro\u2019 from this day on, I will eventually get the credit and\/or heat for this? Magic negro. It is a term, and it\u2019s exactly as described here. Its purpose is to allow whites the guilt-free support. But in Barack\u2019s case, it\u2019s only because he isn\u2019t a ‘real black.\u2019 The LA Times, by the way, is not first with these types of columns. The LA Times has two or three columns like this: ‘Is Barack Obama Black Enough?\u2019 And so forth. So there\u2019s a racist component out there on the editorial page of the LA Times that\u2019s obsessed with the race of Barack Obama — and as with all leftists, while they are obsessed with race, they\u2019re accusing everybody else of being racists.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: This piece by David Ehrenstein in the LA Times today, ‘Obama the ‘Magic Negro,” it\u2019s just infuriating. It is the left that continues to besmirch these people. It\u2019s the left that continues to question their so-called authenticity. These people are all human beings. I don\u2019t care if it\u2019s Sharpton or if it\u2019s Reverend Jackson, these people are all human beings. Some of them are in the race business, I understand that. But look at who it is that keeps focusing on whether they\u2019re authentic enough, authenticity based on skin color. Who is it doing this? It\u2019s the left. I got a suggestion for of those at the LA Times. Let\u2019s cut to the chase. Go get an old-fashioned auction block and put it in the town square, put it somewhere where it looks like it\u2019s real, and just bring all these black people up there and auction them off and find out who it is that sells for the highest price.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s essentially what you\u2019re doing with all of these nonsensical categorizations: Obama is not black enough. Obama is not down for the struggle. Obama doesn\u2019t have a legitimate civil rights background. Obama\u2019s ears don\u2019t look like a black person\u2019s ears. They\u2019re too big. Obama doesn\u2019t sound like a black person. He\u2019s clean and articulate. It\u2019s the left saying all these things. Now he\u2019s the ‘magic negro,\u2019 which is just a convenient trick for the LA Times to blame a bunch of white people for being racists. Okay, just get an auction block and grab as many blacks as you want to put \u2019em up there and let\u2019s start the sales, LA Times, and let\u2019s see who it is that fetches the highest price. Isn\u2019t that essentially the way they\u2019re approaching this? These human beings are simply commodities, and they are there for some purpose other than their own human existence. If you doubt the racism and the groupthink and the superiority of the leftists in this country, you\u2019d be making a grave error.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Guess what just happened? I just got a note from H.R., trusty chief of staff up in New York. The BBC called, and I\u2019ll just read the note to you rather than paraphrase this thing. ‘We just got a call from the presenter on one of the BBC shows, would like to use a ten-second sound bite of something you said about Obama from a while back in concert with clips from all sorts of other radio shows in the US.\u2019 Now, we declined because we know what they\u2019re doing. Ten seconds of all the things I\u2019ve said about Obama? For example, today, you could take ten seconds of me saying, ‘Obama is the magic negro,\u2019 and make it look like I said it, rather than the fact I\u2019m repeating it from an LA Times column today. So the BBC is getting ready — and we declined their permission to use us in that regard. We said, ‘If you want to do just on Rush and we\u2019ll send you a compendium what\u2019s been said.\u2019 ‘No, no, we\u2019re not interested in that.\u2019 So they\u2019re doing a hit piece on talk show hosts in America the way they\u2019re talking about Obama, which is precisely my point.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the LA Times and it\u2019s Joe Biden and it\u2019s all these other people who are raising questions about his authenticity. In fact, there was an honest story, but even it — and I forget where. It was last week. Might have been a blog. I forget. The person writing this story begrudgingly admitted that even Rush Limbaugh is saying there\u2019s something to this Obama guy, and so he\u2019s not being overly critical of Obama. But then the snide follow-up was, that\u2019s because so many people on the left are being critical of Obama for one reason or another that Limbaugh is not being genuine in his respect that he\u2019s showing for Obama, of course it can\u2019t be, obviously. Things are 180 degrees out of phase here. LA Times today referring to Obama as the magic negro.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m going to keep referring to him as that because I want to make a bet by the end of this week I will own that term. By the end of the day. The broadcast engineer is shouting at me over the IFB. (People ask, ‘What is an IFB?\u2019 It\u2019s an intercom. It\u2019s a private earpiece. You can\u2019t hear it. I have people chattering at me all the time. It\u2019s a television term, but we use one here. It\u2019s just closed-circuit loop.) He\u2019s shouting, ‘You\u2019ll own it by the end of the day if you keep referring to Barack Obama as the ‘magic negro.” We\u2019ll give it a shot. We\u2019ll see what happens with this.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Ted, Pocatello, Idaho, welcome to the EIB Network.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes. I wanted to make a comment about your comment that you made about Senator Barack Obama, who is a black man. I don\u2019t think they should refer to him as a ‘negro,\u2019 even though we are negroes. I am a black man myself, and I don\u2019t think they refer to us as negroes, but if they do, then I guess that\u2019s okay. But I don\u2019t think they should say that to Senator Barack Obama, a Democratic presidential candidate who —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait, wait, wait. What did I say?<\/p>\n

CALLER: You said that they quoted in the Los Angeles Times that they said something to Barack Obama, said he was like the miracle negro.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Magic. No, no, no. They said, ‘magic negro.\u2019<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, magic negro, us blacks aren\u2019t ashamed to be negroes but okay just like when they threw that al-Jazeera —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Why are you calling me? I didn\u2019t say it. You need to be calling a guy named Ehrenstein at the LA Times who came up with the colorful description of Barack Obama as a ‘magic negro.\u2019<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay. The only reason I should do that is because I\u2019m listening to your program and I\u2019m an avid listener of your program, and I know that Senator Biden made some kind of comment like he\u2019s the cleanest out of all and them and everything else. Those aren\u2019t really potshots, you know? If it goes national, you gotta say something.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Are you Democrat or Republican?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m Democrat.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, it\u2019s Democrats saying all these things. Do you know that?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Are you saying I shouldn\u2019t repeat them?<\/p>\n

CALLER: No because that\u2019s radio talk show, but I was saying that makes the black community —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait a second. Radio talk shows somehow get denigrated because we repeat what liberals say, in this case the ‘magic negro\u2019 about Barack Obama. So somehow we\u2019ve descended to a new low by quoting what\u2019s in the LA Times, but LA Times is excused for this?<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, what I\u2019m saying is that maybe you should take the position to maybe defend that and maybe say, quote, unquote, they are not negroes. These are black people.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I didn\u2019t say it in so many terms, but I pretty much excoriated them. I hope you heard that. These people are racists. You know, the racists in our society, Ted, are these white liberals. They\u2019re the ones that notice your skin color before anything else, and they\u2019re the ones deciding whose skin color is dark enough and therefore who\u2019s authentic enough and who\u2019s been down for the struggle. It\u2019s those people doing this. It\u2019s not me. It\u2019s not ‘talk radio.\u2019<\/p>\n

CALLER: True. True.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: They only do that to the blacks that are moving up.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s right, because they represent a threat. The civil rights coalition\u2019s prescription is that you can\u2019t move ahead in this country are because of racism.<\/p>\n

CALLER: But I think us blacks have moved on and we can move on, and I think Barack Obama may very well be the 2000 [sic] Democrat nominee for president of the United States and I don\u2019t think they should refer to him as that. I mean, if I lived in Los Angeles —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait. Don\u2019t forget the purpose the LA Times wrote this piece. They say that he is the ‘magic negro\u2019 because a bunch of people — who are white, who are supporting him — are only doing it because they have a bunch of white guilt and they think by supporting a ‘magic negro\u2019 that they can assuage their guilt. In essence he\u2019s saying that the white people that support Obama mostly are racists, that they don\u2019t know anything about him because there is nothing to know. That\u2019s what this guy wrote in his column. There\u2019s nothing to know. He\u2019s not been around long enough. People that support this guy, obviously have to support him because he\u2019s black. It makes them feel better. So they are racists. The guy who is racist here is the author of the column. It\u2019s as though there\u2019s a death wish for black candidates. No matter who the black candidate is, if there\u2019s any white support, it\u2019s not genuine. It can\u2019t be, because whites are racist. In this case, Obama has gotta be the ‘magic negro\u2019 because nobody knows anything about him so there\u2019s no reason to support him unless you have white guilt and you want a black guy to make you feel better.<\/p>\n

CALLER: But there\u2019s other points to support him, and even though they may take him for reparations and all this stuff that you said before, they have to look beyond that. I mean but we can\u2019t control the United States, and I did not read the article. I was just going by what you said on your talk show, and I\u2019m not really saying anything bad about you. I just said, ‘Why repeat that phrase?\u2019 I heard you say, ‘I\u2019m going to own that phrase by the end of this day,\u2019 or something like that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, I\u2019m glad you asked that, because my point is that the LA Times raised it — he LA Times columnist, Ehrenstein writes about it — and I simply said, ‘If I refer to Obama the rest of the day as ‘the magic negro,\u2019 there will be a number of people in the Drive-By Media and on left-wing blogs who will credit me for coming up with it, and ignore the LA Times did it simply because they can\u2019t be critical of the LA Times,\u2019 but they can obviously be critical of talk radio. It\u2019s such something beneath us all. I\u2019m just making the point out there, Ted that. I don\u2019t ‘own\u2019 the comment. I don\u2019t own the phrase. The LA Times does, but by the end of the did I if I keep using it they\u2019ll say I do own it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay. I was just going to say that that columnist probably is a Jew.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, wait a minute! On what basis are you making that supposition?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m making the assumption just on his name. I would say he\u2019s a Jew, and there is a lot of racism in Los Angeles out there that probably goes on, but we have a strong NAACP chapter out there that will probably handle that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: We\u2019ll see.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Look, the LA Times has run two other pieces on Obama, the most recent in the past month or so, on Is he black enough? — and the answer is no.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, but they always ask questions like that. I mean, why would that question arise? Why would that even arise when they aren\u2019t black people? They don\u2019t know what black is. We can always say stuff like that. They want to say, ‘Is he black enough?\u2019<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know, this is what\u2019s crazy, that only certain people are allowed to know what black is. That\u2019s absurd, and it\u2019s the LA Times and the left that\u2019s raising questions about the authenticity of who\u2019s black enough. It is dehumanizing, it is demeaning, and it is racist — and your buds at the NAACP did not go to the LA Times and say, ‘What is this Is Obama black enough business?\u2019 They didn\u2019t. They stand mute out there. They\u2019re liberals and they\u2019re not going to criticize each other. They are liberals first. I don\u2019t care whether they\u2019re feminists or they\u2019re actors or actresses, or whether they are liberal Jewish people, or liberal black people. The NAACP, are liberals first and everything else second. Ted, that was a great call and a great conversation. I\u2019m glad you got through, but I have to run because of the constraints of time.<\/p>\n

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