Fox News ticker: 'Let's hope the magic negro does a good job'

This is why I love this board. It gives me a good laugh sometimes. All the whining over Fox News, yet the phrase, at least with regards to Obama, originated with none other than the liberal LA Times back in 2007.

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[edit on 2-1-2009 by vor78]

Surprise! racist jokes make the news again, and this time it is linked to a right wing media news outlet.

Texts and the internet are liberating the hidden racists, if it wasn't so damned pathetic and predictable it would be funny.

Wasn't is a liberal black writer for the LA Times who first coined the phrase Magic Negro in reference to Obama. I see the comments about Magic Negro coming from conservatives as just pointing out the ridiculousness of the liberals.

reply to post by vor78

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I was laughing the entire time I was reading this thread. You beat me to it, Vor.

The term "magic negro" was used by the very liberal LA Times in 2007.

But, of course, it's Fox News that is biased, right?

When used in the manner that it was, it is very disrespectful. The people who submitted the ticker called Obama the "magic negro," to reinforce the conservative's ridicule of Obama being viewed as a "Messiah" figure that will end all of the world's problems.



I already stated that in my previous post. Just like the word "whitey" means white, when you call someone "whitey" just to single them out based on their skin color, it because offensive.



When have people ever referred to Caucasians as "blanco" to show disrespect? Here is what your same exact example would be like if someone were to show their intolerance based on McCain's skin color:

"I'm sure if John McCain were elected and someone sent in "HAPPY NEW YEAR AND LET’S HOPE THE MAGIC WHITEY DOES A GOOD JOB. LOVE JEN AND JOHN C."

or how about:

"I'm sure if John McCain were elected and someone sent in "HAPPY NEW YEAR AND LET’S HOPE THE CRACKER DOES A GOOD JOB. LOVE JEN AND JOHN C."

Cracker, as you know, refers to the food, but when it is used to refer to the skin tone of a person, it becomes offensive, just as how "negro" was used.

reply to post by kyred

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That's ALL it is, Kyred. They're just throwing some of the more ridiculous praise the liberals have heaped upon him back in their own faces with these comments.

In any event, the complaints in all of these cases give me a good laugh. Bush has been called far, far worse, even back in the 2000 election cycle and his first year in office. Of course, Clinton was as well. Every president is going to be called a few offensive names from time to time. If Obama can't take it, he's in the wrong line of work. And his supporters? I'm not sure they're ever going to make it through the next four years, because they're as thin-skinned regarding this type of thing as I've ever seen.

I'm sure someone got fired for that mistake.

To everyone saying negro isn't offensive, walk up to the next black person you run into and call them a negro, see how he or she reacts.

Then lets see if you don't think its a big deal.

I for one am very disturbed that this got so many people's attention in the first place. That those many people had to spout their two-cents means this subject is still alive, and living high on the hog - that's what disturbs me.

If this board's reaction to this one single line of text is any indication to how their ratings went up...one becomes seemingly unable to blame Fox for putting it up, for it's been nothing short of good for business since the second it went by the first person's vision.

I guess it is truly a disgrace to put something like this on TV, I don't know really, I've never been involved in, nor have I grown up around anything so divided as racism. The whole idea is idiotic on both sides. IMHO no single word in history should have this kind of impact on ANYONE, let alone one certain section of humanity.

I honestly can not figure out anyone here (to have given this one line of text so much credence in the first place seems wrong), but I for one will never let something so trivial as a person's skin color determine who I am willing to save or who I am willing to have save me when the time comes, and anyone who can look through a keyhole with both eyes like this will never have an ounce of my respect or caring.

It is the narrow-minded racist that should be the only "type" of person who deserves prejudging and no other, but giving this kind of so-called news any credence at all (thus allowing fox to profit horrifically) only adds fuel to the fire. It simply indicates what kind of society we STILL live in. This should have been utterly ignored and given absolutely NO credence from its inception, for this is the only way to prove something unimportant, useless, and unprofitable. As long as this subject is on our minds, period, it will remain an issue.

It's very simple: If someone is behind me, pointing a gun at me, and I don't see them getting ready to kill me, I couldn't care less who saves my bacon.

[edit on 2-1-2009 by lagnar]

You know, if he were white.....
And someone made a similar statement; it would be laughed at and then ignored.

I think people are making WAY too much out of it.

Was it stupid of republicans to make and distribute it, yes?

Is it that big a deal, no.

In the US, people in "the public eye" are always made fun of. (Don’t think so, what about all the jokes about Bush)

What makes him so special that he can't deal with the same.

"IF" he is so sensitive about that, he had better leave office, seriously.

reply to post by Mdv2

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Freedom of Speech doesn't mean that all speech you hear will be Intelligent it just means any moron can spout off and say what he wants...

Usually this only makes the SPEAKER look as moronic as he is to the rest of us!!!

Non the less I support their Right to use any word they would like o describe Obama, did not we endure 8 years f people calling Bush anything they liked? Did we not endure 8 years of people calling Clinton anything they liked? Reagan? Carter? Nixon? Johnson? Kennedy? Etc. Etc...

I for one and happy that we have freedom of speech in America still, this is the BEST way to detect morons you don't want to associate with, if we shut them up how will we know which morons to avoid???

I've seen number of interesting comments concerning this topic, yet I've to see my question to be answered which was the essence to post this in the first place:




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I am sorry but a great percentage of the people you consider black today are about the same mixture as Barak Obama racially especially with caucasian slavemaster force breeding with their female slaves or even numerous documented instances of living with and mixing with Indian tribes if they escaped for example the seminoles, a great majority of African americans are exactly the same diverse mix as he is so he is African American or Black, not half, quarter or whatever you like to call it, certainly back in the Jim Crow south if he were to try and sit on the front of the bus, the driver wouldn't say, oh you're ok you're not like the other negroes you can sit anywhere you want, your daddy came from Africa on his own free will as a student/immigrant, he wasn't forcefully brought here as a slave as everyone else so that makes you a little different.





[edit on 2-1-2009 by phinubian]

Come'on people lighten up it was funny. Sheese, get a sence of humor, if it were a black making fun of a white person there'd be none of this "outrage".

I don't know, I've been called every name in the book chances are names most people have never heard of, some I never even heard of and I could care less.

If an individual gets so upset over a stupid name then they have personal issues they need to deal with on a personal level.

Just because some incoherent idiot likes to name call due to the fact they can't intellectually engage the individual in constructive criticism and needs to resort too name calling to up their self esteem it just points out how primitive that individual is.

All it is for is to boost the self esteem of the person doing the name calling to make them look "cool and/or brave" in front of friends who may or may not be equally insufficient in their own self perception. Kind of feel sorry for them actually seeing as how they're that depressed to resort to that.

Correct me if im wrong but he is a negro right? So whats the problem?

It's not just one line on Fox News that people are concerned about. The RNC has already released a CD called "The Magic Negro" (title song sung to the tune of "Puff the Magic Dragon"). It's the association of the term with the whole Republican party that adds insult to the injury.

Yes, it's racist. There's a lot more that could be said that would be more offensive, that's true, and I'm sure Obama is called a lot worse by some people in private.

If McCain were called "the magic white man" it would not be as racist, though it's very unusal in our society for Caucasians to point out the color of one another's skin (it's just assumed that a person is white unless otherwise specified, it's like a cultural default setting).

The majority of the population of the country is caucasian; if they call each other names based on the color of their skin it would not be a threat in the same way that a slur against a minority group would be. There is little danger white people are going to discriminate against each other the way we have historically discriminated against African Americans. There's a long and ugly past associated with racial sterotyping and that is why the dominant majority has to be especially vigilant about it now.

There are ways to make jokes about Obama that do not refer to his race. It's probably true that it is thin-skinned, but the RNC should know better.

I just sit here and shake my head that people actually took offense to something so trivial. There will always be racist, hateful people who base their opinions of your skin color, culture, and enviroment. But to throw a fit over something like this just makes you look like a thin skinned sissy. Let it go already and start enjoying 2009 and the life you got for god's sake.

Lets not forget the most important "racial issue" either. A record number of blacks turned out this election to vote for Obama...why? BECAUSE OF HIS SKIN COLOR...THAT should also be considered racist right?????? You should be more pissed off that they voted for someone "like" skinned then for the BEST candidate...but of course anything done by the NON white folk is NEVER racist...its always considered justified in our society because apparently everyone other then "whites" have been oppressed and have no real opportunities!!!

Its just stupid. The man is now president...call him any name you want, refer to him however you want (just like many did to Bush) and lets sit back and see if he can work the "magic" he promised!!!!

So if skin color is no big deal then why even make a thread about someone else commenting on it?

Just a thought.

Why are so many obcessed either way. I imagine it doesn't even make Obama blink and I could care less about that article. " Sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me". The guys stupid for saying it but why get mad at an idiot?

[edit on 1/2/2009 by Solarskye]