<![CDATA[Barack Gets It Right On Limbaugh's "Barack The Magic Negro" Parody]]>

1.0 link 48186 <![CDATA[Barack Gets It Right On Limbaugh's "Barack The Magic Negro" Parody]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/karen-russell/barack-gets-it-right-on-l_1_b_48186.html "I don't mind folks poking fun at me."

That's how presidential candidate Barack Obama responded when Paul W. Smith with Detroit's WJR Radio asked him about the Rush Limbaugh's parody song "Barack the Magic Negro".

The song refers to on op-ed piece written by African-American writer David Ehrenstein in the Los Angeles Times. Ehrentstein wondered if the "Illinois senator lends himself to white America's idealized, less-than-real black man?":

"But it's clear that Obama also is running for...

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