Magic Negrogate Across The Pond

By Kleinheider Posted on December 31, 2008 at 11:38 am

Michael Tomasky on the Chip Saltsman fiasco:

The natural reflex is to assume that these folks know that a parody song called “Barack the Magic Negro” is racist on its face, but they just don’t care. But that is not the problem here. The problem is that they genuinely don’t see it as racist on its face and don’t understand why the rest of us do.

Because it’s just a “joke.” And it’s an okay joke for them because, by and large, many of them don’t have much contact with people unlike themselves. At the GOP convention, I walked a full circle around the concourse counting the black faces. I think I got to 18 — which is more than, you know, two, but remember that was out of 20,000 or so people in the hall.

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