LOL!!!!!!!

I'm sorry. I know it was done in bad intention and all, but goddamn this is some funny stuff.

Magic Negro LOL LOL LOL Never heard it before LOL

For those who aren't sure... yes, it was completely journalistically necessary to show a slide show of pictures of Obama, slowing zooming in, while the song describes him as a magic negro.

>> ^bamdrew:
You know who I blame for this? Dave Chappelle. Dave never understood how dumb/mentally-lazy so many Americans are, and just figured if he thought his confrontational and race-conscious, cultural-criticism comedy was funny that it was worth the odd inappropriate laugh. Well the genie is out of the god-damn bottle.
"Ooh, this racism is killing me inside!"


I disagree. That's like blaming racism on the reporters who report on a story that demonstrates racism exists in a campaign.

Just because a comedian jokes on a social construct in society, it doesn't mean he's responsible for it or even perpetuating it. Granted, there's a fine line between racism and comedic license, but making jokes on stereotypes and generalizations can be done with tact (e.g. Dave Chapelle) and without tact (e.g. Carlos Mencia). It's ultimately the listener's duty to take away from it what it is, comedy about a social construct, and not that it's encouraging that construct.

Even if you disagree with this argument, you couldn't blame this on Dave Chappelle, but would have to go back to comedians before him such as Richard Pryor or Andrew Dice Clay who also did comedy on perceptions about race.