RNC candidate uses racism to win acceptance by GOP. Stay classy Republicans!

RNC candidate Chip Saltsman’s Christmas greeting to committee members includes a music CD with lyrics from a song called “Barack the Magic Negro,” first played on Rush Limbaugh’s popular radio show.Saltsman, a personal friend of conservative satirist Paul Shanklin, sent a 41-track CD along with a note to national committee members.

“I look forward to working together in the New Year,” Saltsman wrote. “Please enjoy the enclosed CD by my friend Paul Shanklin of the Rush Limbaugh Show.”

The CD, called “We Hate the USA,” lampoons liberals with such songs as “John Edwards’ Poverty Tour,” “Wright place, wrong pastor,” “Love Client #9,” “Ivory and Ebony” and “The Star Spanglish banner.”

Several of the track titles, including “Barack the Magic Negro,” are written in bold font.

The song, which debuted on Limbaugh’s show in late March 2007, latches onto an opinion column in the Los Angeles Times of the same title. That column, penned by cultural critic David Ehrenstein, argued that Obama could serve as a balm to whites who felt guilty about past treatment of African Americans.

“See, real black men, like Snoop Dogg, or me, or Farrakhan, have talked the talk, and walked the walk, not come in late and won,” one verse in the song says.

Hey look I love to laugh. Ask anybody.

And I don't mind if the jokes are a little politically incorrect or bawdy. But this is not simply "politically incorrect" this is hate seeking the camouflage of humor.

If this parody were done featuring Hillary Clinton, or Laura Bush, using sexually denigrating references instead of racial ones, the women of this country would burn this guy at the stake. If he were lucky.

The truly insulting thing about this, even more so then actual recordings themselves, is the fact that these racists are hiding behind the fact that the article, which first referenced the "Magic Negro" conception, was written by a black man. (You can see Rush frantically trying to do just that in this link.)

In the same way that closet racists love to listen to rap songs in their cars because they believe that since the "N" word is part of the song it gives them carte blanche to sing it at the top of their lungs, these assholes want to make the case that you cannot be angry at them unless you are also willing to vilify David Ehrenstein for bringing the term into the current nomenclature. (I guess these guys have never heard of Spike Lee.)

However the point that Mr. Ehrenstein was trying to make, and the one that was clearly lost on Rush Limbaugh, Chip Saltsman, and this Paul Shanklin jerk, is that the idea of the "Magic Negro" is in and of itself racist. By trying to hide behind the phrase these three individuals have simply allowed their white sheets to be seen even more clearly.

However what most Barack Obama supporters have come to understand, and admire, is that Obama is not the "magic negro". He did not suddenly appear from nowhere just to sacrifice himself for the hapless white man. He ran for President of the United States to help America. ALL of America, white, black, Hispanic, Asian, and every other ethnicity one can imagine.

And besides EVERY President gets the ideals of the voters projected on them. You don't think that those bible thumpers convinced themselves that George Bush was the second coming of Christ? They are still doing that very thing to Sarah Palin.

So this Chip Saltsman may think he is fooling people by hiding behind these "humor" CD's, but he is not fooling anybody. We can smell that faint odor of burning crosses from here.

P.S. By the way just in case you think I may have exaggerated the offensiveness of the song in question I hesitantly provide this link, so that you can listen to it for yourselves. Don't say I didn't warn you.