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Fox Attacks Black President While Defending Magic Negro

Written by Casey Gane-McCalla, Lead Blogger on January 25, 2009 4:47 pm

Recently, Fox News, Michelle Malkin and Bill O’Reilly have attacked Jay Z for his song ‘My President is Black’, originally a Young Jeezy song but Jay Z made his own version. The rappers were called high profile supporters of Barack Obama,  the song was called racist, Jay Z was accused of bigotry and Obama was asked to denounce Jay Z.
To, me Jay-Z’s version of My President is Black is uplifting song of sentiment of pride of the black community. There is nothing racist about it. While Jay Z’s lyrics have at times been materialistic, violent and misogynist,  it seems as if Barack Obama has had a very positive effect on Jay Z and he has turned to making positive, uplifting music for the time being. Barack Obama had previously said he liked Jay Z’s music, but was troubled by its materialism and misogyny and worried about the effects it might have on his daughters. Has any Republican other than Michael Steele publicly spoken out against Limbaugh’s racism?

Bill O’Reilly and Dennis Miller also bashed Jay Z and Young Jeezy for My President is Black. This is funny because just a few days earlier Bill O’Reilly was defending the Rush Limbaugh for his Barack the Magical Negro Parody. Miller and O’Reilly criticized the song as being vulgar. While Young Jeezy and Jay Z might have some profanities, it was far more benign than O’Reilly’s off camera outbursts or his graphic sexual harassment of co-workers.

Fox News also had resident bigot, Limbaugh on for a benign interview with co-bigot, Sean Hannity. Did Hannity question Limbaugh at all about his racism? No. It was a very friendly interview in which Limbaugh was allowed to further promote his racist agenda.

Why doesn’t Fox News call on the GOP to condemn Limbaugh, if they are calling for Barack Obama to renounce Jay Z for his ‘racist’ song “My President is Black” Shouldn’t they call on the GOP to renounce Limbaugh. Their defense of satire might be acceptable if it was Borat singing Barack the Magical Negro or if Rush was an actor playing a bigot, but Rush’s long history of mean spirited racism whether humorous, degrading or both shows his real intentions.

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Rush Limbaugh’s ties to the GOP are way stronger than Jay-Z’s ties to Barack Obama. Fox attempted to connect Jay Z to Obama by mentioning that he was an invited guest to inauguration because his wife, Beyonce, performed. Limbaugh, however was one of Bush’s last guests to the White House, Bush has appeared several times on his show, as has Sarah Palin, Condoleeza Rice, Clarence Thomas, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and several other high profile Republicans. Limbaugh’s ties to the GOP are strong enough that Obama has asked them to stop listening to him.

We are in a new era. If Fox wants to criticize Hip Hop, they must also criticize Limbaugh. Limbaugh has said that he wasnts Obama to fail, meaning he wants America to fail with Obama. Isnt that America hating, Hannity? Shouldn’t you call out the lynch mob, O’Reilly? If being proud to have a Black President is racist, isn’t demeaning our president as a Magic Negro racist too? I have already outlined why the GOP must denounce Limbaugh, now its Fox’s turn.

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    It’s just another way for them to say Yea we can be racist but you can’t. How dare you be proud and embrace having the first Black president in history. They are such a joke. I wonder what Oprah has to say about this. I live in Pennsylvania and we have drive by racisim out here. Its pretty hilarious cause now adays they are scared to call you a n****r to your face.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/SanMarcosEric/ SanMarcosEric

    Again, you really need to get your information straight; maybe even go the extra mile and doc**ent some of your sources. You attack Bill O’Reilly for playing Rush Limbaugh’s “Barack the Magical Negro Parody.” Would it kill you to do a little research before you spew this stuff on the internet? First of all, it was not Rush Limbaugh’s parody. It was a parody by a comedian named Paul Shanklin. And Paul Shanklin was not attacking President Obama, he was making fun of Al Sharpton who has been complaining that President Obama is getting all of the credit for being the leader of the Black community, but has done nothing to warrant it, other than get elected. Apparently, Al Sharpton feels that he has put in the effort and more rightfully deserves that role.
    All of this, including the phrase “Barack the Magic Negro” came from a Black LA Times reporter, named David Ehrenstein, in his article: “Obama the ‘Magic Negro’: The Illinois senator lends himself to white America’s idealized, less-than-real black man.” The article was written during the campaign, March 19, 2007:

    http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-ehrenstein19mar19,0,3391015.story

    The actual term “magical negro,” as Ehrenstein points out, “is a figure of postmodern folk culture, coined by snarky 20th century sociologists.” He is a fictional device in literature, in which a black side-kick or supporting character is imbued with great insight who saves the bungling white protagonist of the story, who, typically, has gotten himself into trouble by not listening to the advice of the “magic negro” in the first place. A character, according to Ehrenstein, alive and well in Hollywood today.
    The point that Ehrenstein was trying to make was that Obama’s popularity had “little to do with his political record,” because he has none. According to Ehrenstein, Obama was and is the answer to Whitle, Liberal Guilt: The nagging guilt felt by many Whites over slavery and the post-slavery treatment of blacks.
    Bottom line: This is exactly what Al Sharpton has been playing upon for years and he has expressed his resentment over an upstart, like Barack Obama, stealing his spotlight. Hense: Paul Shanklin imitating Al Sharpton complaining about “Barack the Magic Negro.”

    There is plenty of racism in America. It is unfortunate that much of it now comes from the Black community. Nonetheless, there is still plenty of White racism. Furthermore, there is injustice and wrongs that need to be righted. When you repeat such silly and easily swatted attacks on Rush, Bill O’Reilly, Hannity, etc., while at the same time making excuses, or ignoring actual, unapologetic racism from Rev. Wright, Louis Farakhan, or some of the recent outbursts by Ludicris or Jaime Fox, you are belittling the reality of racism and making it easier for real racists to justify their behavior. You cannot spend eight years laughing and applauding hate-filled jokes at the expense of President Bush, but now take offense when comments of that exact same nature at being launched at President Obama. That makes you a hypocrite. And to concern yourself with this trivia ignoring the serious realities makes you a fool. What is worse:

    • Rush playing a comedian’s spoof about Al Shaprton, or the fact that in many cities, African-American kids have a fifty percent drop out rate?
    • Did Sean Hannity ask soft-ball questions of Rush Limbaugh during their interveiew, or the fact that young Black men are the most at-risk demographic group in the nation?
    • Whether or not Fox New is bias to the Right, or the lack of education and opportunity for inner city Black kids?

    Maybe it is time to reassess your priorities and change direction. You have a popular web site that could actually do some good in the Black community, and for Americans in general. But you don’t seem to take your own news reporting seriously, and you certainly to not take the issues you blog about serious. Everything about this site is about half-truth and lies. It seems that the only purpose is to provide a place for similarly hate-minded people to vent their hatreds. Have you read some of these comments? The racism and hatred in there far outweighs anything on which you’re reporting.

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