I wonder sometimes how otherwise thoughtful Christian people can even consider voting for a baby-killing far Left corrupt Chicago hack with "prince of light" charisma.
Here's one possibility:
But it's clear that Obama also is running for an equally important unelected office, in the province of the popular imagination — the "Magic Negro."http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-ehrenstein19mar19,0,5335087.story
The Magic Negro is a figure of postmodern folk culture, coined by snarky 20th century sociologists, to explain a cultural figure who emerged in the wake of Brown vs. Board of Education. "He has no past, he simply appears one day to help the white protagonist," reads the description on Wikipedia.
He's there to assuage white "guilt" (i.e., the minimal discomfort they feel) over the role of slavery and racial segregation in American history, while replacing stereotypes of a dangerous, highly sexualized black man with a benign figure for whom interracial sexual congress holds no interest.
