The Shuffle President: The New York Times Just Stepped in it Big Time...

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Sat Jul-25-09 07:06 PM
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The Shuffle President: The New York Times Just Stepped in it Big Time...

The Shuffle President:

"Obama is the nation�s first shuffle president. He�s telling lots of stories at once, and in no particular order."

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/19/magazine/19fob-wwln-t.html

Black Humor from Slavery to Stepin Fetchit:

"Interest in minstrel shows began to fade near the turn of the century, as vaudeville shows became more popular. But, despite the gradual decline of the minstrel format, the black comedic image was not altered. Blackface and the familiar "shuffling coon" continued as the core of black stage presence."

"And even as the first "talkies" were being filmed, black roles were restricted to the standard servants and shuffling darky types.:

And on, and on...

http://www.aliciapatterson.org/APF0204/Watkins/Watkins.html

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Kind of Blue

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Sun Jul-26-09 09:49 AM
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1. I'm really not trying to be dense

Edited on Sun Jul-26-09 09:50 AM by Kind of Blue

but I read the article and I'm not connecting "shuffling coon" to it. My take, and I may be wrong, is that the article is talking about the president's wide range of legislative changes he's tackling all at once. Maybe the author should have used juggling. I'm not getting a direct feel of racsim. Is it the word, shuffle, itself? The word in the racist context does not match what the article says Obama is doing. But shuffle does match the article when I think of a deck cards and what Obama is doing.

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