Barack the Magic Negro

[coffeegyrl]

*Caution: you may find this deeply offensive.* I'm not kidding...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvXz2xaLNMQ

You might have already seen/heard this but I just stumbled upon it today. I love reworked lyrics and I thought this was hysterical! I had to listen to it twice because I was laughing so hard the first time through.

[Mary6906]

Too late.... it's been removed.

[Ginny]

This video just seems dumb to me. However, I actually enjoyed seeing the photos of black leaders, many of whom worked very hard to get Barack Obama into office.


P.S. Guess I'm one of the "privileged few" to have viewed this video. :rolleyes:

[DaveM]

Apparently the song has been around for a while and was promoted by some bigwig Republican and played on the air by Rush Limbaugh (who, of course, still has a job). Rather nice to see that someone turned it back on its original distributors, though apparently YouTube did not get the joke.

[Randy & Betty in Pa]

Welp.... my opinion is that at best its in very poor and bigoted taste... More typical republican negative attack strategy hidden under the guise of humor... Had race been left out of it completely I might have found some humor... Occupational humor is good... Lawyer jokes, politician jokes, etc etc.... but race, sexual preference and blonde jokes cross the line... Oh and lets end those damn elephant jokes... elephants have feelings to you know...:mad:

"Sooooo why did the repubican senator from Tennessee cross the road? I have no idea but neither did he....":(

Best to all

R. from Pa.

[Wildflower Fever]

I don't even have to watch the video on this one. All I need to see is the word "negro." Although I'm liberal, I'm not on the side of the PC police every time, but how could using the word negro not be crossing the line? Although it's not quite the "N" word, it is a word that is no longer wanted by the people it used to describe, like "colored." How about Rudy The Magic Dago Guiliani? Or, Lech The Magic Poloch Walesa? John The Magic Mick Catholic Kennedy? What the hell is STILL wrong with people? If I get my way, and Barack serves two terms, I'm already bracing for the worst of us out there to show their f---ing ugly faces...:rolleyes:

[hoops]

WF, you just named my entire family ...please laugh...i truely am irish italian and polish and i'm laughing my face off.
peace
hoops

[Wildflower Fever]

WF, you just named my entire family ...please laugh...i truely am irish italian and polish and i'm laughing my face off.
peace
hoops

So you like perogi's, marinara sauce, and you drink Guiness with shots of Jameson?;) "Noel The Magic Dago Poloch Mick Hoopster"?:D I've gotta come up with one for myself...I'm part German, Swiss, Dutch, and Native American...:p
My father is 100% German, and my mother brings the rest of the ingredients to the soup...

[coffeegyrl]

WF--it's "Puff the Magic Dragon"

[DaveM]

People could of course call me Dave The Magic Bohunk, or Scandihoovian, or Kraut, or what have you. None of those has ever been used as a racial epithet--"Kraut" was an epithet during WWII but that was a long time ago and it's just become another word. And it's a common joke in my family that with the rather mixed genetic heritage, none of us know whether to be ill-tempered, hard-headed, alcoholic, depressed, or all of the above. But let's face it--assorted distinctions between those of European ancestry tend to get a pass, largely because of the manner in which they've been used over the centuries.

When you start throwing around the likes of "Negro", it does get uncomfortably close to "Nigra" or that other word that starts with "N". And none has much of a history as a term of endearment.

As I said before, I admire the effort of those who took what started as a low blow and tried to turn it back on its creators. In the end, though, we're just left with another example of today's pseudo-conservatives trying to pull others down to their own level. And no matter what they may call any of us, I hope no one's going.

[Oak Kitten]

The whole brouhaha is emblematic of the GOP's total tin ear when it comes to comprehending modern (defined here as post - 1954) society. Let them keep digging their hole deeper.

Oak

[hoops]

good point davem
peace
hoops
btw i'm not going

[DaveM]

Well, Hoops....how do you feel about being a Pollack? Since Lech Walesa, surely it's a term with some pedigree.

And after all, not matter which European country our ancestors were kicked out of, it could always be worse. We could be Finnish.

Oak--am I the only one who finds it strange that the Republican Party c. Dwight Eisenhower seemed to be an optimistic and all-embracing group (it's a bit hard to be sure because that was pre-Civil Rights Act)? The present crop do not appear to be even the Republicans of the Nixon era....or of any other that I am aware of. I think they're just a bunch of frustrated malcontents who stole the party name and, since now one else seems to want it any more, have managed to hold onto it for 30+ years.

[Oak Kitten]

DaveM,

As someone of Finnish ancestry, I resemble that remark. I used to say I was half Finnish, but got tired of people asking me when I would be completely finished.

Eisenhower supported policies that allowed for the firing of federal employees who were gay. In fact, during his administration the government actively pursued and prosecuted/persecuted gays because of course, as we all know, if you were gay, you were probably a Commie, too. Ike was no great advocate of civil rights too, because you know, those civil rights agitators were under the influence of the gay Commies. And on and on it goes. . .

Oak

[hoops]

davem, it's kinda like being gay, i didn't choose it, i've always been this way and i'm a pretty good person so it's all good!
peace
hoops

[DaveM]

Oak--you're quite right....Ike at least had the partial excuse of having been President 55 years ago. I have no idea what sort of excuse the current crop might have.

Eisenhower was of course in the White House while Joseph McCarthy was doing his thing, and to my knowledge, never said a word about it. That's always seemed among his worst sins to me.

I would really like to know why, seeing as there is one "n" in Finland, the people from there are not called Fins.

A large segment of the population of Finland seems to have settled in this area, I suspect because they didn't like it, and they continue to remind all who will hear of the fact. Nonetheless, they'll be the folks out ice fishing on a day like today, when the mercury is not going to get above zero.

Some years ago, Twin Cities Public Television did a series of pseudo-documentaries on "The Finnish Miserables", starring two guys who went on for literally hours about how and why no one from Finland could ever be happy. Subtle humor and stretched a bit thin, but worth seeing if it ever resurfaces somewhere.

[Oak Kitten]

Dave,

Yep, Minnesota and Central Massachusetts (specifically my home town of Fitchburg) hosted a large influx of Finnish immigrants. They braved hardship and adversity to leave their inhospitable homeland and cross an ocean to resettle in America - in the very places that reminded them most of their inhospitable homeland. Fitchburg still has a Finnish language newspaper, although the first generation Finnish population has dwindled significantly over the years.

I would love to see that program you mentioned. I will have to try and track it down.

Oak

[DaveM]

As I recall, the program featured supposed bits of Finnish newsreels (scratchy and in black and white), "authentic" Finnish music (some of which was for piano and bassoon), and lots of hilariously dreary back and forth between the two stars, for example:

Finn #1: "When a man in Finland is out walking in the forest, he has many high, swinging thoughts".

Finn #2: "Like hanging himself in a tree".

Come to think of it, one of the network news magazines did a segment on a major Finnish fad of a few years back: the tango. You might be able to find something about that online. The major thing I recall was the explanation offered when the reporter asked what the songs were about (very impassionate lyrics in Finnish which sounded like something profound indeed). The reply was, "mostly they are about a man who loves a girl, and, on losing her, he makes away with himself".

I believe the Swedes still hold the record for suicides, mind. Certainly my mother's side of the family was born depressed and is proud of it.

[hoops]

My family left poland during wwi after my great grandmother and her sisters were raped and dragged behind the horses of the kosacs(sp?) my grandmother was 14 years old at the time they arrived in NY in the hull of some ship after aprox 3 weeks at sea. all 8 of her family survived the trip. she her two parents and 2 aunts and 3 siblings. my grandmother married my grandfather 2 years later and my father was born when my grandmother was 17. my grandmother had 2 more brothers born around the same time as her wedding and the birth of my father. her three older brothers signed up to fight in the war...two died in the war one of influenza. My great grandmother reverted to the mental age of 5 when she had a forth son die of influenza as a baby in her arms. I met my great grand parents but i don't remember as they both died in 1969. my polish grandmother was convinced she was dying as long as i knew her and died at 72 after her body gave out from insisting on having dozens of unneeded surgeries. not the happiest of memories comes with my polish background.
my grandfather was italian ...these were dads parents
mom's parents were irish half from the bailey's as in bailey's irish cream, the other half were corrigans a poor but happy group.
they came over in the hull of a ship too, only drunk and singing all the way. they are still that way today
peace
hoops