Michael Reagan spent a March 22 Newsmax column whining about a movie:
Last weekend a film called the “American Society of Magical Negroes” opened to moviegoers. It’s a film by Focus Features.
According to Fox News: “The film centers around a young man who is recruited to be part of a ‘society’ where black people use their magical powers to make White people comfortable, so that they don’t hurt black people.
“In the trailer, protagonist ‘Aren,’ played by Justice Smith, learns he must put White people’s needs before his own so that the secret society maintains their magical powers.
“White people, when they are uncomfortable, are ‘the most dangerous animal on the planet,’ David Alan Grier’s character ‘Roger’ explains to Aren.
“That’s why we fight White discomfort every day. Because the happier they are, the safer we are,” he says in one scene that’s featured in a theatrical trailer.”
[…]This racist and provocative attack on white Americans wasn’t the equivalent of some 8mm movie shown on a small screen in a warehouse.
It opened nationally in 1,147 theatres.
The negative reviews weren’t because the movie was a lie and an unwarranted attack on whites. No, the movie got negative reviews because it wasn’t racist enough.
[…]Controlling American cultural institutions funded, created and marketed this black version of the 1915 D.W. Griffith film “Birth of a Nation.”
“American Society of Magical Negroes” is a movie designed to demonize white Americans.
It’s another wedge is U.S. race relations and another effort to tell the nation “white ain’t right.”
If a movie was made with the racial premise reversed, the outcry would be universal and include the White House, Congress, business and academia.
Unmentioned by Reagan: Years ago, Rush Limbaugh got right-wing plaudits for promoting a song called “Barack The Magic Negro,” designed to denigrate him. It was so well thought of in right-wing circles that in 2008 a candidate for chairman of the Republican National Committee sent out copies of the song to promote his chairmanship. We’re not aware of Reagan ever complaining about that; he did serve up a fluffy eulogy on Limbaugh’s death in 2021 that did not mention “Barack the Magic Negro” but praised “his humor, his irony, his mastery of the radio medium or his long-term appeal to millions of average Americans who did not live in Manhattan” and gushed, “For three decades he showed so many of us the way.”
Perhaps Reagan should weigh in on Limbaugh’s use of thatsong if he wants to comment further on this movie.