Unbah.

As someone who, according to this article, has a lot of white guilt...I really don't know what to say about this. I find it remarkably offensive, to say the least. It's stunning for a few reasons (due to space and Clipmarks limits, the below is a mere snippet...click on the story for the whole LATimes debacle).

What's really stunning to me is that the other so called magic negroes this douchebag refers to are...just about EVERY famous black man who isn't an athlete. (Oh, sorry...he included Magic Johnson too, but likely just because of his nickname.)

So (and this is hardly news) black people can't win here. Either they are "too angry" and can't let the sins of slavery go (something I can't hear without envisioning a "rebel" flag flying from their rooftop)...or they are somehow 'fake black,' a 'magic negro' that isn't real...

Disgusting. How do people like this get to write for national newspapers?

clipped from www.latimes.com

Obama the 'Magic Negro'

AS EVERY CARBON-BASED life form on this planet surely knows, Barack Obama, the junior Democratic senator from Illinois, is running for president. Since making his announcement, there has been no end of commentary about him in all quarters — musing over his charisma and the prospect he offers of being the first African American to be elected to the White House.

But it's clear that Obama also is running for an equally important unelected office, in the province of the popular imagination — the "Magic Negro."

As might be expected, this figure is chiefly cinematic — embodied by such noted performers as Sidney Poitier, Morgan Freeman, Scatman Crothers, Michael Clarke Duncan, Will Smith and, most recently, Don Cheadle. And that's not to mention a certain basketball player whose very nickname is "Magic."

But the same can't be said of most white Americans, whose desire for a noble, healing Negro hasn't faded. That's where Obama comes in: as Poitier's "real" fake son.