All Fun and Games

I love watching Republicans and Fox News discuss whether or not calling the President of the United States a Magic Negro is a racist term. It's probably no worse than calling George Bush a Rich Cracker, which is something Fox News or the head of the RNC ever did. But, to me, the two have about the same connotation. I remember a time not too long ago, let's say...last year, when insulting and/or not supporting the president was viewed as unpatriotic and anti-American. It was completely impossible, Republicans argued, to support the troops but not the president. So to minimize our Great and Patriotic Leader, George W. Bush, was to minimize our glorious nation. I remember those days vividly. Of course now they are long gone as the next head of the RNC, the leading opposition party in America, distributes compact discs with show tunes calling our newest president a Magic Negro. And lest we forget one of the leading cable news channels bends over backwards to fully support any Republican's decision to use the phrase.

I fail to see how calling Barack Obama a Magic Negro is not derogatory even if it's not racist. This is what the Republican Party has succumbed to. All throughout John McCain's campaign with Sarah Palin at his side, Obama was called many worse things by gleeful and angrily violent crowds. And now we have that same realm of support passing along CD's entitled "We Hate America." How mature and progressive the RNC must be. As the country gets ready to swear in its first Black president, a president Americans overwhelmingly elected while simultaneously rejecting the intolerant, war crazy, Hooverist economists on the right, we can clearly see exactly what the GOP views as being important to this nation.