Steele agrees with caller: Obama ‘is the magic Negro.’
Steele agrees with caller: Obama ‘is the magic Negro.’
During the January campaign for chairman of the Republican National Committee, Michael Steele slammed his opponent Chip Saltsman’s distribution of a CD with a song called “Barack the Magic Negro.” “It doesn’t help at all,” Steele said. “Absolutely, it reinforces a negative stereotype of the party.” However, while hosting Bill Bennett’s radio show this morning, Steele laughed when a caller called Obama the “magic negro” and seemingly agreed with the characterization:
CALLER: It’s just like the LA Time said last year or two years ago: He is the magic Negro.
STEELE: Yeah he — [laughing]. You read that too, huh? [still laughing]
CALLER: Oh yeah. I read that too. Even when things go wrong, he still manages to come out smelling like a rose.
STEELE: Well, yeah.
Listen to it:
As Steele is facing an internal power struggle, he may be trying to shore up his radical right-wing credentials. Though he earlier refused to call the president a “socialist,” this week he declared Obama was “moving towards a collectivist socialist approach to government.”
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Steele might just be a self loathing racist.
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May 1st, 2009 at 2:01 pmSteele said. “Absolutely, it reinforces a negative stereotype of the party.”
Virtually everything Repukes do reinforces negative stereotypes…it what they do.
Fcuk the Republicans
May 1st, 2009 at 2:02 pm…and Michael Steele has proven himself again for the umpteenth time that he is an Uncle Tom.
May 1st, 2009 at 2:03 pmMicheal Steele–helping ratchet-up the level of GOP tortured and rascist logic–one caller at a time. It really is possible for a man to be that stupid.
May 1st, 2009 at 2:04 pmDisgusting! When are you guys going to grow up?
May 1st, 2009 at 2:07 pmwow did the RNC find the perfect house negro in Steele
May 1st, 2009 at 2:09 pmAnd Mr. Steele is just a Negro, no magic, no sense, and no good. Sir when they finally kick you to “da curb”, you will called worse than that, if they’re not doing it now and your so scared to lose your “position” you just take it. Sad.
Black, Gay, Hispanic, Women Republicans= Stockholm Syndrome
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May 1st, 2009 at 2:10 pmSGT Stephen R. Sherman
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Oh God, not this again. Before this thread gets all kinds of stupid, let’s get a few things out of the way.
The phrase “Magic Negro” is used in literary criticism as a snarky term to point out stories that are being fundamentally racist:
Typically a white protagonist is helped out by a black supporting character who has extensive knowlede and/or abilities. “The Legend of Bagger Vance” is a perfect example of this form. The issue is, if the black guy’s so awesome, why isn’t the story about him? Why do we need to watch a show about the struggles of some white person they helped out one time?
Provided they’re using the term in that context, with that meaning, then it’s being used correctly. If you lift the term out of that context, then you’re being racist. Just because the NAACP still calls themselves the NAACP doesn’t mean you get to run around in the streets calling people “colored” willy nilly.
The L.A. Times article sort of bridged it halfway out of context. It was discussing the psychology of many white voters who pin their hopes on Obama and expect him to do superhuman things as being similar to that literary form. We have lots of problems, capable black person shows up, we expect him to fix all our problems.
That doesn’t mean wingnuts get to run around using it as a blanket excuse to say “negro” a lot and giggle.
May 1st, 2009 at 2:10 pmElBruce, the only thing in your response that is significant, at the end of the day, is your final sentence.
May 1st, 2009 at 2:12 pmBut it doesn’t sound like Steele is agreeing with the application of the term specifically. He’s just laughing and dancing around it there.
May 1st, 2009 at 2:12 pm.
Well, we do know that he’s been a (R)ushpublickin’ for some time…
… Maybe he swallowed too much Oxy sweat from all the teabaggin’
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May 1st, 2009 at 2:12 pmThis a@@h*le doesn’t even know his right from his left. He still hasn’t figured out that not only is he going to lose his cozy job as chairman of the RNC, but that he has been USED as the ‘face of the first African American’ to be put in a public position for the Republicans so as that people would hopefully start to ‘believe’ that the R party is comprised of more than just ‘old white men’. What a FOOL. He really is the poster boy for “Uncle Tom”!
May 1st, 2009 at 2:14 pm.
Because we all know, Limbaugh runs the (R)ushpublickin’ Party.
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May 1st, 2009 at 2:15 pmShorter GOP: “Waaah! We completely screwed up the country, but Obama isn’t getting any of the blame for it!”
May 1st, 2009 at 2:17 pmGreat Post ElBruce that is exactly it.
May 1st, 2009 at 2:19 pmPoor David Ehrenstein…I betcha he is sick tired of explaining that piece to morons who didn’t read it.
May 1st, 2009 at 2:21 pmWhen I was at a recent lecture by Howard Dean, he was asked about Michael Steele. Howard Dean said that Steele’s biggest flaw is his desire to please everyone.
May 1st, 2009 at 2:23 pmSince he’s going down that road, Steele is “The Toxic Negro”.
On a serious note, isn’t the phrase “Magic Negro” a derisive term for a certain Hollywood stock character who is, usually, an elderly black man who helps a, usually, young, white lead but isn’t the focus of the movie? Morgan Freeman has made a career out of that character. (no knock on Mr. Freeman, he has to take what he’s offered)
President Obama is not the “Magic Negro” he’s the handsome lead every woman wants and every man wants to be. Steele is the villan’s toady.
May 1st, 2009 at 2:24 pmWhat’s next? Is Michael Steele going to start going around in “black face”! He’s a disgrace.
May 1st, 2009 at 2:27 pmBut what would these people call President Obama if he happened to be white? And everything else about him the same?
They’d probably find some other label they could take out of context and attempt to hang on him, but it wouldn’t have anything to do with race. They’d make it about his being from Hawaii or something.
Michael Steele appears to have all the personal convictions of a flag in the wind. He’s desperately doing and saying anything to appear relevant.
May 1st, 2009 at 2:27 pmThe RNC Chairman, Mr. Steele, is a silly buffoon, and is very unmagicial. He is the anti-magician. He tries to pull the Goofy Old (Rubberstamp) Party out of its quagmire and just comes up with slime…
The GO(R)P has to apologize to the American people for many of their vile actions in the last eight years to be able to win votes again. The GO(R)P needs to apologize for the theft of the 2000 President Election, monkey business on 9-11, two illegal criminal occupations of foreign countries, torture, financial deregulation, electronic election rigging and theft in 2002 and 2004, the failure to fund levee protection in Louisiana and the resulting flooding of New Orleans, their rubberstamping of the Bush regime, and, well, you get my general drift here…
May 1st, 2009 at 2:31 pmMichael Steele must have forgotten that this “Magic Negro” comment is one of the major reasons Chip Saltsman lost the RNC chair position in the first place. It wasn’t right to laugh at it.
Denounce it, Mr. Steele. Come right out and denounce it. If you want to reinvent the RNC, you need to denounce it.
May 1st, 2009 at 2:36 pmJeez flippin’ Louise, how does Oxybreath’s c*ck taste, Mr. Steel?
May 1st, 2009 at 2:38 pmBecause, we do know who you are pandering to.
We know indeed.
This man is unbelievably stupid. Just keeps saying the dumbest things. And he keeps sliding back and forth in his ideology.
He was picked only because he was black. And the GOP, thought all blacks are interchangeable. They have so little respect for anyone other than white, rich, christian men, that they cannot judge anyone not of the same kind. They were shoring up their race credentials. So they picked him. And he, like Jindel is bound to disappoint. They have neither the intelligence or charisma to do the job. And the GOP deserves what they got.
Why anyone black would join such a party is beyond me. They are held in such contempt, and it is so obvious. The Republican party sets the entire human race back in the evolutionary scale. But since they don’t believe in evolution, they don’t see it.
With blacks like Steele, they must want to be accepted so badly, by the very people who dislike them the most, they are willing to accept second class treatment. To join the Rep. party they must think them some kind of elite party. And once in, they will prosper in some way economically or socially. You would have to want that delusion very badly to belong in the GOP.
May 1st, 2009 at 2:38 pmI am so embarrassed to be african american and see Michael Steele just go along to get along. Where are his core principals? I am sure his ‘mama’ raised him better than that.
Michael, haven’t you learned one thing from Barack Obama? He didn’t have to compromise any of his values to win the election and that is why he’s so respected. For you as a black man to sit there and snicker, while someone, i don’t care who it is, refers to the president of the US as a ‘magic negro’ is just downright shameful.
What’s next, you holding the match at the next lynching?
May 1st, 2009 at 2:46 pm@25
I don’t get it either. I don’t understand how anyone other than racist, rich, white men can be Republicans.
This man is sadly the token black guy elected to show that “hey they like black people too!”
The stupidity that spews from this man’s mouth just keeps getting worse. I’m telling you they’re trying to destroy their own party!
May 1st, 2009 at 2:58 pmSteele should have stand up if not for Obama for himself instead he simply laugh as if it was nothing.
May 1st, 2009 at 3:04 pmHow do you win over African-Americans like that?
Michael Steele is becoming a disgrace to his race. Not always agreed with his politics but thought he had ‘class’. In time he will prove to be less than an advantage to his party. His goal was to bring black conservatives aboard– widen the tent.
Now he moves to helps it collapse even further with his ‘ignorance’ on how to engage and reach out. How tragic!
May 1st, 2009 at 3:08 pmJust the sights and sounds at the tea parties would be enough to scare anyone even thing of joining the republican party, if you are black.
Steele should remember that he’s black first, then republican. He’s lost respect for himself, and the republicans have too, if they ever respected him in the first place.
Note to Steele, you can’t just come on morning Joe, and turn your hat backwards and think blacks are going to sign up. Call Obama what you will, but he’s never talked down to any segment of the population. He treats everyone with respect, even people he disagrees with.. you should learn from him.
May 1st, 2009 at 3:14 pmSteele agrees with caller: Obama ‘is the magic Negro.’
As opposed to a moronic one like yourself , Mikey ………..
May 1st, 2009 at 3:18 pmPoor Steele…no “swagga…”
May 1st, 2009 at 3:21 pmTalkDiva Says:
Michael Steele is becoming a disgrace to his race.
I thought he was more of a disgrace to humanity. Race has nothing to do with anything.
May 1st, 2009 at 3:23 pmSteele — helping to make the big little tent the big littler tent
May 1st, 2009 at 3:25 pmInterestingly, the Times piece was about African-American characters in movies who exist to help white people out of jams. Like Bagger Vance or Whoopi Goldberg’s Corrinna. In this respect both Obama AND Steele are “magic negroes” but Obama is the only one doing an effective job.
May 1st, 2009 at 3:28 pmCALLER: Oh yeah. I read that too. Even when things go wrong, he still manages to come out smelling like a rose.
Why yes, he is kind of like Reagan, in that way. Welcome to our world.
May 1st, 2009 at 3:31 pmbetter a “magical negro” in the WH than an uncle tom running the GOP. sorry, it’s time to start calling michael steele what he is.
May 1st, 2009 at 3:35 pmSo why cant Steele close the magic negro deal?
May 1st, 2009 at 3:38 pmI bet it just drives Steele nuts that Obama can seemingly do no wrong, while he himself, has the reverse-Midas touch. Everything he touches turns to crap!
May 1st, 2009 at 3:39 pmOne man of color is the leader of the free world (choke) and trying his damnedest to make things better.
Another is the titular head of the most conservative party on the planet and trying his damnedest to do a job no one wants him to do.
Riddle me this, Batman, why did I starteither comparison with the race thing? Even more to the point, why should it matter?
We have a long way to go, baby.
May 1st, 2009 at 3:41 pmMikey; your great white massa(Flush Limpdick) is on line 1.
May 1st, 2009 at 3:42 pmquestion for michael steele:
May 1st, 2009 at 3:43 pmwhere do you draw the line? is it when someone calls obama a ni**er in your presence? on a radio show you’re on?
And on top of this, Steele spent $18,500 to redecorate his TEMPORARY office [we can all take bets that he is going to be fired at some point]. He has to feel his ‘firing’ is coming. The R’s are b*tching about the money, but Mikey also stated that he included $3,500 on redecorating other parts of the place. They are also unhappy about the fact that several positions [press secretary, research director] need to be filled for which he has done nothing. Plus he fired Jay Banning, who worked 33 years as comptroller of the RNC.
The writing is on the wall, but Steele is too stupid to see it!
May 1st, 2009 at 3:46 pmIf Obama is the magic Negro, does that make Mitt the magic underwear?
May 1st, 2009 at 3:48 pm(I’m trying to be brief…)
michael steele has a rude awakening coming:
May 1st, 2009 at 3:49 pmhe’s the “fall man” for the recent gop implosion. wait until he gets a taste of his party member’s true colors…being called a “magic negro” will be tame in comparison.
Michael Steele, the magic door mat. You know, the one in front of the store that you step on and it opens the door.
May 1st, 2009 at 3:53 pmIt seems to me the republican party should change it name to the republican communist party, there like china and russia all they know is na na to anything to help the american people and our country. I think fits them well.
May 1st, 2009 at 4:27 pm1. How far is Steele ready to go ?
2. about the criticism of Obama, wasn’t Reagan known as the Teflon prez ?
May 1st, 2009 at 4:38 pmSteele has no sense of direction. He must be A-D-D.
May 1st, 2009 at 4:40 pmThe GOP has shot themselves in the foot so many times, you would think they would have no feet left. Keep it up Repubs, but aim higher, much higher.
May 1st, 2009 at 4:43 pmSteele is a downright embarrASSment to his race.
May 1st, 2009 at 4:48 pmhormiga brava chavez Says:
What’s next? Is Michael Steele going to start going around in “black face”!
Are we sure he’s not? Come to think of it, has anyone seen any documentary proof that this isn’t really a white guy in makeup?
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curious Says:
He was picked only because he was black. And the GOP, thought all blacks are interchangeable. They have so little respect for anyone other than white, rich, christian men, that they cannot judge anyone not of the same kind.
Yep, it’s exactly like them telling us Palin was an acceptable substitute for Hillary.
May 1st, 2009 at 4:53 pmSteele is just jealous. (I wonder what Harry Belafonte thinks of him…)
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May 1st, 2009 at 5:17 pmMaybe he’s just trying to pass for white….
May 1st, 2009 at 5:36 pmHe’s the President Mr Steele.
Something you’ll never be.
May 1st, 2009 at 6:47 pmRead what the caller states to Mr. Steele…let me guess, he’s a typical republican voter, uninformed and ignorant. Reminds me of bush jr.
May 1st, 2009 at 8:09 pmIt’s just like the LA Time said last year or two years ago: He is the magic Negro.
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Hey Obama, keep working your magic. I don’t give a F#%k what the Republicans call you!!!!!!
May 1st, 2009 at 9:53 pmHey Steele, how’d that NY 20 work out for ya ?
And he said this on Mr Virtue/gambling addict Bill Bennett’s
May 2nd, 2009 at 12:10 amradio show. Suprise suprise.
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May 2nd, 2009 at 12:41 amObama let the Republican Stevens go free. He is allowing a group of Republican war criminals to escape unscathed. He is doing nothing about Democratic Governor Don Seigleman’s fraudulent conviction by Rove’s buddy’s wife. Obama is allowing the torture scapegoats from Iraq to stay in jail while refusing to hold those accountable that actually created the illegal scheme.
Now we see Obama has apparently been attending too many public prayer sessions, and is backtracking on the gays in the military thing.
Obama continues to bow down to the big banks while forcing the domestic auto industry to deprive hard working Americans of their wages and benefits, when it is the crony trade schemes that make it impossible for them to compete.
I am just not seeing much “magic” these days. Obama seems like the Republicans’ best friend that is not allowed to hang out because he is black. He will keep trying though.
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Indeed, Obama ‘is the Magic Negro’and a hypocrite. I’m a U.S. born Black man with a clean record who is not alone in this assessment!
“As the entire nation tries to climb out of this deep recession, in communities of color, the circumstances are far worse. The black unemployment rate, as you know, is in the double digits. And in New York City, for example, the black unemployment rate for men is near 50 percent. My question to you tonight is given this unique and desperate circumstance, what specific policies can you point to that will target these communities and what’s the timetable for us to see tangible results?” by Andre Showell, BET Correspondent
“Well, keep in mind that every step we’re taking is designed to help all people. But, folks who are most vulnerable are most likely to be helped because they need the most help.
So when we passed the Recovery Act, for example, and we put in place provisions that would extend unemployment insurance or allow you to keep your health insurance even if you’ve lost your job, that probably disproportionately impacted those communities that had lost their jobs.
And unfortunately, the African-American community and the Latino community are probably overrepresented in those ranks.
When we put in place additional dollars for community health centers to ensure that people are still getting the help that they need, or we expand health insurance to millions more children through the Children’s Health Insurance Program, again, those probably disproportionately impact African-American and Latino families simply because they’re the ones who are most vulnerable. They have got higher rates of uninsured in their communities.
So my general approach is that if the economy is strong, that will lift all boats as long as it is also supported by, for example, strategies around college affordability and job training, tax cuts for working families as opposed to the wealthiest that level the playing field and ensure bottom-up economic growth.
And I’m confident that that will help the African-American community live out the American dream at the same time that it’s helping communities all across the country.” by President Barack Obama
“On Wednesday, April 29, 2009 I saw and heard a reporter from BET ask President Barack Obama “Blacks have always suffered the greatest unemployment. Black men in New York are 50% unemployed. How are you going to help them?” If I had closed my eyes when he answered I would have thought that the answer had come from the mouth of Bilbo, Senator Strom Thurman, Herman Tallmadge or some other white supremacists.” by Mrs. Esther Lofton, is an excerpt of a letter addressed to Robert Johnson, CEO of BET, dated May 1, 2009.
“Obama brings a unique piece of biography to the job of choosing a court nominee: his years as a community organizer. That line in his resume seems to be a big part of his thinking about what he would like to add to the current court, which for the first time is made up entirely of people who served as federal judges before their nomination. Obama said he would be looking for someone who “has a sense of what’s happening in the real world and recognizes that one of the roles of the courts is to protect people who don’t have a voice.”
“Cosby is the type of black man I hate. … Bill Cosby’s condescending attitude definitely will not help the black poor out …” by Michael Eric Dyson
Neither President Barack Obama, nor Bill Cosby is fit to condemn U.S. born Black men. On this issue, I agree with Michael Dyson, and rightfully so!
…..President Barack Obama condemned U.S. born Black men……
….while ignoring his sworn under oath of office and mandated by the U.S. Constitution duty to execute the Constitution for all law abiding U.S. citizens, remaining silent, ignoring valid petitions for redress from law abiding U.S. born Black men and women, serving or giving a free pass to illegal immigrants and/or special interest illegal immigration advocates!
President Barack Obama is sworn under oath and mandated by law to serve all law abiding U.S. citizens, law abiding U.S. born Black people being inclusive.
Since proof exists where President Barack Obama has been formally petitioned about serious atrocities where innocent Black men, women, and/or their siblings have been egregiously violated by the atrocities of government, and to date President Obama has not responded.
Sincerely,
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May 3rd, 2009 at 5:20 am