It's usually only funny when it's meant to illustrate some bigger cultural issue, or when it's self-deprecating. It's funny when minorities make fun of majorities, but uncomfortable the other way around. The funniest racism jokes in existence are when somebody makes a racist comment and makes a total ass of themselves. For example, here's this lovely gem from "(The Customer is) Not Always Right..."
(Working at a sandwich place across the street from my college campus. One
of my Spanish professors enters, and we chat in Spanish as I make her food.
Another man comes in while we’re chatting, and stares at us.)
Customer: “What the hell? Don’t you dare coddle that
job-stealing Mexican!”
Me: “Sir, that woman is a Ph.D.
I can guarantee you, she did not steal your job. Oh, and she’s from New York.
Can I take your order?”
Customer: *storms out*
Wanna see something that's not funny? Emails from the Conservative Crazies about the "New Number for the White House":
The new number for the Black House (formerly the White House) will be:
(Foe Foe Fie) Nie Nie Sebin - Foe Sebin Foe Foe.
I won't lie, I chuckled. But it was an uncomfortable, self-conscious chuckle which was less about the joke being funny, and more about it being completely wrong. It's the kind of uncomfortable chuckle that you can't really control, and makes you feel instantly guilty.
I called Bush and Palin idiots based on idiotic things they did. These folks are calling Obama an idiot based on a racial stereotype that he has never embodied in any way shape or form. But the good thing is that it doesn't make Obama look bad, it makes the author of the joke look racist.
So keep it up, Mr. Racist Man. You keep using your energy to come up with pitiful jokes based on racial stereotypes, jokes that make your eyes twinkle and your lips curl up with glee. I understand that you're bitter and angry that a black man is your president. I understand that you're bitter and angry that the old man and the pretty one didn't win. You just keep on doing whatever makes you feel better, cause otherwise it's going to be a difficult 4 or 8 years!
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I have read extensively and exhaustively Your material, and Have come to a pretty favorable conclusion -You are A hater, a grudge is your best friend, You think much too highly of yourself and not highly enough of others-You're all mixed up inside because you know what is right and what is wrong but you want the right to go away so you can keep doing wrong but the right keeps pushing back and now you begin feelin the guilt,
But you don't want to feel guilt so you push back with more wrong stuff and then you begin to get angry at which point you begin to take it out on others who haven't done anything to you and so it goes in a continuous circle over and over and over-Right wrong, wrong right, right left, left right, and then the marching orders are given, and these by someone you know is even more wrong then you but you like doing the wrong stuff cause it feels so good even though you know it's wrong because your small little inside wanna do right self is telling you it's wrong only to be pushed back into submission once again cause you are arrogant and have way too much pride going on to admit that you could ever be wrong, so you take a turn to the left where there are a bunch more just like you hanging out on the corner, with nothing much to do but feel angry at everyone else too, because they are really angry at themselves and you take comfort in their company and now you can all be angry together each one convincing the other it's ok to be on the side of all that is wrong because what the heck who wants to to the right side of the thing anyway! So you stay on the left, and after awhile your right turn signal just won't work anymore because you never use it and then you forget how to use it and you keep on turning left until you become so lost that nothings fair it just ain't right. You got it Girl it just ain't right! Cause when everything you know is left, And the ONLY thing you know is left! Nothing will ever be right! You just keep makin those left turns baby! We'll all be cheering for ya even though we know you'll never make left, RIGHT! Because like it or not The equation is: (LEFT)=U+WRONG
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