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Obama is Magic

Here's the LA Times article that led to the parody song "Barack the Magic Negro," which led to a current controversy that will surely hurt the GOP in the long run.

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.

Ugh. What nonsense.

But what *idiocy* to make a parody song out of the article's title, easily taken out of context, add questionable race-baiting content, and then distribute it. Seriously?

Full post as published by Expressio Unius on December 29, 2008 (boomark / email).