Remember the "Magic Negro" term laid on Obama by the gay black male writer in the LA Times OpEd ?
Later made infamous by Rush Limbaugh.
By David Ehrenstein writes about Hollywood and politics.
March 19, 2007
AS EVERY CARBON-BASED life form on this planet surely knows, Barack Obama, the junior Democratic senator from Illinois, is running for president. Since making his announcement, there has been no end of commentary about him in all quarters — musing over his charisma and the prospect he offers of being the first African American to be elected to the White House.
But it's clear that Obama also is running for an equally important unelected office, in the province of the popular imagination — the "Magic Negro."
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/...,3391015.story
Seems the 'Negro' has lost his 'Magic'
Aug 25, 2011
Gallup tracks daily the percentage of Americans who approve or disapprove of the job Barack Obama is doing as president. Results are based on telephone interviews with approximately 1,500 national adults; Margin of error is ±3 percentage points.
Approval 38
Disapproval 55
http://www.gallup.com/poll/113980/Ga...-Approval.aspx