Barack, The Magic Negro

On March 19, 2007, David Ehrenstein of the LA Times wrote a column about Hollywood and politics. The headline of his column: "Obama, the 'Magic Negro.'" Then on March 21, 2007 the Rush Limbaugh show aired a parody produced by Paul Shanklin, imitating the Rev. Al Sharpton singing, "Barack The Magic Negro."

LA Times article

Sometimes, the truth hurts.

Nancy Pelosi's First 100 Days

A Big Deal

Today is the 60th anniversary of the day when Jackie Robinson first played in a major league game. He was the first African-American to play in the major leagues.

Major League Baseball is pulling out all the stops to honor him, declaring today Jackie Robinson Day. His number 42 has already been retired by every major league team. Today, over 200 players are wearing number 42, including several entire teams.

ESPN has been promoting this non-stop for a week. Normally, I believe ESPN blows everything way out of proportion. I get really sick of their hype machine. But, I really don't mind this. This sea of acclaim is coming about 35 years too late.

Jackie Robinson paved the way for African-Americans to play and excel, not just in baseball, but in the NFL and NBA as well. Baseball was a really big deal in 1947, and race relations were not good. Jackie Robinson broke a lot of stereotypes and took a lot of heat as a pioneer.

This is a big deal.

Two addendums: This ceremony at Dodger Stadium is becoming a circus. First, they have a black church choir sing a re-written version of the gospel song "O Happy Day". Instead of saying "when Jesus washed my sins away", they sang a line about Jackie playing baseball. It's not necessarily sacreligious, but it sounded really cheesy.

And, Jesse Jackson is there tonight in his role as President of Black America. I'm sure Jason Whitlock is happy about that.

Someone Who Gets It

Jason Whitlock is a sports columnist for the Kansas City Star and for AOL. He formerly appeared on ESPN.com and on ESPN's The Sports Reporters (he was the big black guy that wasn't from the East Coast).

Jason always has hot opinions. I don't always agree with him, but he always makes his point well.

I doubt if I agree with him much politically. However, he hits the nail on the head with this AOL article:

Time For Jackson, Sharpton To Step Down

I don't think this is merely a case of some young hip-hop guy wanting to take over the civil rights movement. He is, however, exposing Jackson and Sharpton for what they are: race hustlers.

Jason is going to be catching a lot of heat in the next few days, especially in the black community. He gets paid to give hot opinions. I think he has a lot of support out there, though.

Enough, Already

The past week has brought a manufactured firestorm, thanks to the Revs. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, and the guilty politically correct liberals that run ESPN.

Radio talk show host Don Imus and his producer had a really stupid and offensive conversation over the air last week. In that exchange, he referred to the Rutgers women's basketball team as "nappy-headed hos". It was a very ignorant remark. You don't say things like that about anyone in public and in a professional atmosphere, especially over the air on the radio and on TV.

I've always wondered what the big deal was about Imus. I always thought he was an overrated blowhard, but the media elites always liked him and kept his show going.

These comments didn't go unnoticed. Our favorite race hustlers, Jackson and Sharpton got into the act, and fanned the flames of racial tension, as they tried to defend the Rutgers players. Jackson has experience in offending other ethnic groups, having referred to New York City as "Hymietown" in the 1980's. Sharpton had Imus on his radio show over the weekend, and got the embattled host to apologize for his comments.

Today, though, the Rutgers ladies had their own press conference. It took up an hour of airtime on ESPN. I'm glad I was at work, and I'm also glad I wasn't recording World's Strongest Man or whatever on the DVR, or else I would have missed it. The Worldwide Leader In Political Correctness has made sure to give this as much airtime as possible.

Imus's stupidity has been blown way out of proportion. He was wrong to call the Rutgers team what he called them. However, I'm tired of seeing the victim card played here. Imus is the stupid one here. Not the Rutgers team.

Imus plans on meeting with the Rutgers team in the near future. The team has not decided if they will accept Imus' apology. And, so what if they do or don't.

Enough of the race card. Enough of the victim card. Imus looks really ignorant, and he doesn't need the help of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton for that.

Beware The Clintons

They're trying to get back into the White House. If you thought Bill Clinton was bad, wait until his wife becomes president. They've gotten away with every crime known to man, and can't wait to get back for more.

Beware, and be afraid.

This video sums it all up.