Barack Obama has become the earliest presidential candidate to receive secret service protection.\u00c2\u00a0 This is just as well, considering how front-loaded the process is.\u00c2\u00a0 Mind you, Hillary Clinton has secret service protection, but that is by dent of her status as former First Lady, which solves one of the odd riddles:\u00c2\u00a0 The reason Barack Obama is so kill-worthy is that he is black.\u00c2\u00a0 In the battle to see whether the undercurrent of fear and hatred of the prospects of a black president or a female president, the test of threat assessment to arrive at Secret Service Protection has been mooted.<\/p>\n
Pondering the imponderables, our friend Rush Limbaugh<\/a>, in his usual coy way to “expose liberal hypocrisy” (if you say so) has adopted a theme song for Barack Obama.\u00c2\u00a0 “Barack the Magic Negro”.\u00c2\u00a0 It is by way of an LA Times editorial, with his assertion that “the drive by media” and “liberal bloggers” will claim Rush created it. For Rush, it really is just an excuse to throw around the term “negro”.\u00c2\u00a0 He will be picking up any leftover editorial comment and flogging it in a “What me worry?” manner.\u00c2\u00a0 I do not know if he termed “Halfrican”, but I do know he can claim to have picked up the idea of “not too black… not too white” from the political ether, and… well, if he wants to, subtley toss the Jeffersons theme song when discussing any number of black politicians.<\/p>\n I will say this in passing.\u00c2\u00a0 I have noticed an uncomfortable ease with which the word “negro” is being used, generally with an understated quotation marks around the word.\u00c2\u00a0 Michael Richards notwithstanding, nobody white says “nigger” — at least not in my presence.\u00c2\u00a0 (The “behind closed doors in the privacy of their own country club” scenario will have to play out somewhere else.)\u00c2\u00a0 It is almost as though we’ve quietly shuffled from that to the other “n” word.\u00c2\u00a0 But what’s in a word? — I don’t know… Truman would have used that term and not had the faintest idea what an “African American” is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Barack Obama has become the earliest presidential candidate to receive secret service protection.\u00c2\u00a0 This is just as well, considering how front-loaded the process is.\u00c2\u00a0 Mind you, Hillary Clinton has secret service protection, but that is by dent of her status as former First Lady, which solves one of the odd riddles:\u00c2\u00a0 The reason Barack Obama […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nSure, why not?\u00c2\u00a0 If it’ll get me mentioned on the show, than by all means: Rush Limbaugh created the term “Magic Negro”.\u00c2\u00a0 Weeeee!\u00c2\u00a0 Fun.
\nI suppose this is a teaching moment.\u00c2\u00a0 It is important that the word “negro”<\/a> be used in the term as a reference to our uncomfortable compact to our racial attitudes of the past, and continuation into the present.\u00c2\u00a0 Frankly, I have come to understand all or most presidential candidates as people who are waffly enough that we project stuff onto.\u00c2\u00a0 We could not really get a handle on George W Bush in 2000.\u00c2\u00a0 Or Bill Clinton in 1992.\u00c2\u00a0 It is sort of why John Kerry wasn’t successful against a weakening incumbent.\u00c2\u00a0 Obama just adds a racial dimension to the mix.<\/p>\n