Ted, I've got news for you.
The guy who wrote that "extremely racist" paragraph wasn't George F. Will. It was the columnist from the LATimes, David Ehrenstein:
For someone whose been around, you sure don't act it sometimes. This is what the author also said in that same article:
Though he started small, using the ruse to get into Studio 54, Hampton discovered that countless gullible, well-heeled New Yorkers, vulnerable to the Magic Negro myth, were only too eager to believe in his baroque fantasy. (One of the few who wasn't fooled was Andy Warhol, who was astonished his underlings believed Hampton's whoppers. Clearly Warhol had no need for the accouterment of interracial "goodwill.")
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Now what do you think? Racist or not?
Its a racist view......that's why the author calls it "a baroque fantasy" and "an accouterment of interracial "goodwill"". You really don't understand, do you?
He also says stuff like this:
"Like a comic-book superhero, Obama is there to help, out of the sheer goodness of a heart we need not know or understand. For as with all Magic Negroes, the less real he seems, the more desirable he becomes. If he were real, white America couldn't project all its fantasies of curative black benevolence on him."
Why is "less real" more desirable? Why is that a racist statement?
I bet you don't even know the author is black, do you? |
