This is exactly what the right was afraid would happen after the election, and you've got to give to them, their basic instinct was right; if you give black people an inch, we will take 4o acres and a mule. Case in point: Diddy delivered the following quote to MTV News while promoting his new I Am King fragrance:

"I know in [MI6] they have some black agents. I know there's some black people that can save the world. White people aren't the only people that can save the world. My variation, I would come from the New York agency. I would actually be working with James Bond. And he would get kidnapped, and I would have to come get him and save the day. It's a natural thing. It's organic. I think it would be a tragedy for the next James Bond not to be black, and I think the next Superman should be black. We are like the coolest creatures on the face of the Earth."

Wow. If that last "coolest creatures on the face of the Earth," comment and the fact that he wants to show up and save the main white character didn't play into the magical negro concept enough, Diddy is pitching himself as the vehicle for all of this cinematic black progress. In a short made to promote his fragrance Diddy portrays, not James Bond, but a Bondesque secret agent.

"I'm out there promoting myself." Diddy said. "And I said it's for the fragrance, y'all check it out for that. But also, you directors out there, see that your man does his own stunts. Check out the swag and all that. It was more like something I said, something I felt like. I didn't make it as the audition tape [for the Bond films], but I don't want people [in Hollywood] to look at it."

Well, James Bond isn't black, and he's certainly not Sean Combs, so we'll have to do with Black Dynamite in the meantime.

[MTV News]