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RNC Candidate's Obama 'Negro' Song Raises Brows

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NEW YORK (CBS)
Tennessee politician Chip Saltsman, currently running for chairman of the Republican National Committee, sent a controversial collection of songs to members of his party as a Christmas present, but one song in particular is garnering a lot of attention.

The 41-track CD, titled "We Hate The USA," pokes fun at President-elect Barack Obama in a song called "Barack the Magic Negro."

Saltsman defended the song as just a joke. "I think most people recognize political satire when they see it," he told CNN.

Other songs in the collection also target prominent figures from this year's presidential campaign, including John Edwards. Tracks include "John Edwards' Poverty Tour," "Wright place, wrong pastor," "Love Client #9," "Ivory and Ebony" and "The Star Spanglish banner," according to The Hill's Web site.

The song, penned by Saltsman's friend Paul Shanklin, uses the music of "Puff the Magic Dragon" and is in reference to an opinion article by David Ehrenstein published in 2007 by the Los Angeles Times.

"Barack the Magic Negro" is performed as if black activist Al Sharpton were singing it, reports the Washington Post.

According to the Washington Post, lyrics include:

"A guy from the LA paper said it made guilty whites feel good, they'll vote for him and not for me cuz he's not from the hood... Oh, Barack the magic negro lives in DC, the LA Times they called him that because he's black but not authentically."

Rush Limbaugh originally played the song on his radio show in 2007.

In the L.A. Times opinion piece, Ehrenstein writes that The Magic Negro is seen as a figure of postmodern folk culture. "He's there to assuage white "guilt" (i.e., the minimal discomfort they feel) over the role of slavery and racial segregation in American history, while replacing stereotypes of a dangerous, highly sexualized black man with a benign figure for whom interracial sexual congress holds no interest," Ehrenstein explains in the article.

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'Magic Negro' Satire, RNC Candidate Says

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(Dec. 26) -- A candidate for the Republican National Committee chairmanship said Friday the CD he sent committee members for Christmas -- which included a song titled "Barack the Magic Negro" -- was clearly intended as a joke.
The title of the song about President-elect Barack Obama was drawn from a Los Angeles Times column.
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Chip Saltsman, a candidate for the Republican National Committee chairmanship, defended his choice of including the song 'Barack the Magic Negro' on CD mix he sent to committee members. The song refers to a 2007 Los Angeles Times column. "I think most people recognize political satire when they see it," Saltsman said.
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"I think most people recognize political satire when they see it," Tennessee Republican Chip Saltsman told CNN. "I think RNC members understand that."
The song, set to the tune of "Puff the Magic Dragon," was first played on conservative political commentator Rush Limbaugh's radio show in 2007.
Its title was drawn from a Los Angeles Times column about President-elect Barack Obama's appeal to those who feel guilty about the nation's history of mistreatment of African-Americans. Saltsman said the song, penned by longtime friend Paul Shanklin, should be easily recognized as satire directed at the Times.
The CD sent to RNC members, first reported by The Hill on Friday, is titled "We Hate the USA" and also includes songs referencing former presidential candidate John Edwards and the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, among other targets.
According to The Hill, other song titles, some of which were in bold font, were: "John Edwards' Poverty Tour," "Wright place, wrong pastor," "Love Client #9," "Ivory and Ebony" and "The Star Spanglish Banner."
Saltsman was national campaign manager for former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee's presidential bid in 2007 and 2008. Before that, he held a variety of posts, including a number of positions under former Sen. Bill Frist of Tennessee


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December 28, 2008

G.O.P. Receives Obama Parody to Mixed Reviews

By JASON DePARLE

WASHINGTON To the issues that divide the Republican Party, there comes one more. Some Republicans find humor in the song Barack the Magic Negro. Some most definitely do not.

The debate was joined last week after a candidate for party chairman from Tennessee, Chip Saltsman, distributed the parody, which was broadcast on the Rush Limbaugh radio show last year and questions President-elect Barack Obamas racial authenticity.

Speaking to The Hill newspaper on Friday, Mr. Saltsman, a longtime Republican operative, described it as a light-hearted gift that would be received in good humor by members of the Republican National Committee.

In a party that had big losses this year among minority voters, not everyone took it that way.

I am shocked and appalled, Mike Duncan, the current party chairman, said in a statement released Saturday. Mr. Duncan is competing for a second term against Mr. Saltsman and four others.

This is so inappropriate that it should disqualify any Republican National Committee candidate who would use it, Newt Gingrich, a Republican former House speaker, said in an e-mail message. Referring to Mr. Obama, Mr. Gingrich said, There are no grounds for demeaning him or for using racist descriptions.

Saul Anuzis, the chairman of the Michigan Republican Party and another candidate for party chairman, said, This isnt funny, and its in bad taste.

There are two black candidates for the post, J. Kenneth Blackwell, a former Ohio secretary of state, and Michael Steele, a former lieutenant governor of Maryland. On Saturday, Mr. Blackwell dismissed the fuss as hypersensitivity.

All competitors for this leadership position are fine people, he said in an e-mail message.

The dispute illustrates a larger Republican challenge in the months ahead: how to oppose the first black president without seeming antiblack. There are no black Republicans in Congress, and a party spokesman could name only 2 blacks among the 168 members of the national committee. Katon Dawson, the chairman of the South Carolina Republican Party, resigned from an all-white country club in preparing for his campaign to be party chairman.

The parody is sung to the tune of Puff the Magic Dragon by a character meant to be the Rev. Al Sharpton, the civil rights advocate and sometime political candidate. The character laments that white liberals vote for Mr. Obama while shunning his brand of more confrontational racial politics.

Barack the Magic Negro, the character says, made guilty whites feel good/Theyll vote for him and not for me/Cause hes not from the hood.

The song was written by a parodist, Paul Shanklin, whose work frequently airs on Mr. Limbaughs show, and Mr. Limbaugh has defended it against critics who called it racist. Mr. Limbaugh said that it was inspired by an opinion column in The Los Angeles Times by a black writer, David Ehrenstein, who likened Mr. Obama to warm and unthreatening black figures like the actors Sidney Poitier and Morgan Freeman.

Mr. Saltsman distributed the song in a compilation of works by Mr. Shanklin, whom he described to The Hill as a longtime friend. Mr. Saltsman did not return phone calls on Saturday.



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