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Tampa - A Republican leader says the CD's he gave as Christmas gifts were a parody but many are calling them racist. In the CD's the once popular song "Puff The Magic Dragon" has been given some controversial new lyrics.
The song "Barack The Magic Negro" has been playing on conservative talk radio for months. Click here to listen.
It's from Paul Shanklin's "We Hate The USA" CD. Shanklin is a conservative, political satirist. The lyrics are sung by an Al Sharpton imitator and it references a Los Angeles Times column by the same name. You can read the article by clicking here.
Former Tennessee GOP leader Chip Saltsman enjoyed the song so much that he sent copies of it to other Republican National Committee members for Christmas. Saltsman ran Mike Huckabee's presidential campaign and hopes to become the chairman of the Republican National Committee.
We showed the clip to people in Tampa. Robert Sword says he can't believe Saltsman is defending his position to send it out. He laughed as he said "He needs Jesus. There's just so many things with the internet. I mean it gets the message across really fast. I think people need to wake up."
Melissa Wadley says "Magic Negro. I don't like that personally. I don't like that term anyway just because they're making it seem like it's something special for a black person to be able to speak articulately or win the presidency."
The head of the NAACP for Hillsborough County wasn't amused by it either. Curtis Stokes is African-American and a member of the Republican Party. "Things like this make it more difficult to recruit African-Americans and other minorities to the Republican party. But we can't allow the actions of a few people to taint the party."
This isn't the first time Republicans have been accused of distributing offensive materials. You may remember back in October right before the presidential election David Storck, the chairman of the Hillsborough County Republican party, was criticized after admitting to forwarding an email titled "The Threat" which was written by a poll worker.
The worker wrote that he was upset about seeing "car loads of black Obama supporters coming from the inner city to cast their votes for Obama." It went on to say "This is their chance to get a black president and they seem to care little that he is at minimum a socialist and probably Marxist in his core beliefs. After all he is black - no experience or accomplishments but he is black."
Storck later apologized and eventually stepped down.
His replacement Deborah Cox-Roush could not be reached for comment on Monday evening. But Jim Greer who is the Chairman of the Republican Party of Florida released a statement
calling the song racially insulting.
He says the CD only serves to divide and distract the party. "In Florida we have worked hard to reach out to ALL citizens to promote the Republican Party's principles and values while ensuring that our commitment to African Americans, Hispanics, and other minority communities is sincere and credible. Actions such as the distribution of this CD, regardless of intent, only serves to promote divisiveness and distracts us from our common goal of building our party."
The song "Barack The Magic Negro" has been playing on conservative talk radio for months. Click here to listen.
It's from Paul Shanklin's "We Hate The USA" CD. Shanklin is a conservative, political satirist. The lyrics are sung by an Al Sharpton imitator and it references a Los Angeles Times column by the same name. You can read the article by clicking here.
Former Tennessee GOP leader Chip Saltsman enjoyed the song so much that he sent copies of it to other Republican National Committee members for Christmas. Saltsman ran Mike Huckabee's presidential campaign and hopes to become the chairman of the Republican National Committee.
We showed the clip to people in Tampa. Robert Sword says he can't believe Saltsman is defending his position to send it out. He laughed as he said "He needs Jesus. There's just so many things with the internet. I mean it gets the message across really fast. I think people need to wake up."
Melissa Wadley says "Magic Negro. I don't like that personally. I don't like that term anyway just because they're making it seem like it's something special for a black person to be able to speak articulately or win the presidency."
The head of the NAACP for Hillsborough County wasn't amused by it either. Curtis Stokes is African-American and a member of the Republican Party. "Things like this make it more difficult to recruit African-Americans and other minorities to the Republican party. But we can't allow the actions of a few people to taint the party."
This isn't the first time Republicans have been accused of distributing offensive materials. You may remember back in October right before the presidential election David Storck, the chairman of the Hillsborough County Republican party, was criticized after admitting to forwarding an email titled "The Threat" which was written by a poll worker.
The worker wrote that he was upset about seeing "car loads of black Obama supporters coming from the inner city to cast their votes for Obama." It went on to say "This is their chance to get a black president and they seem to care little that he is at minimum a socialist and probably Marxist in his core beliefs. After all he is black - no experience or accomplishments but he is black."
Storck later apologized and eventually stepped down.
His replacement Deborah Cox-Roush could not be reached for comment on Monday evening. But Jim Greer who is the Chairman of the Republican Party of Florida released a statement
calling the song racially insulting.
He says the CD only serves to divide and distract the party. "In Florida we have worked hard to reach out to ALL citizens to promote the Republican Party's principles and values while ensuring that our commitment to African Americans, Hispanics, and other minority communities is sincere and credible. Actions such as the distribution of this CD, regardless of intent, only serves to promote divisiveness and distracts us from our common goal of building our party."
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