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Better Than CNN / News Archives / Crap Talk: December 4, 2002 |
(Note from Jimm McShane: The views expressed by Kellen Berg are solely his own, and do not reflect the views of the rest of the Better Than CNN staff. Don't sue us.)
Friday night-8:30 p.m.
You're flipping through channels and you run through some stand up comedy. You stop to watch, since it's probably the only good thing on right now. There is an African American man on the stage. He's tall and has a mustache. You hear him just yelling out jokes left and right.
Then, he whips out the white jokes.
"The white man's bringin' me down!"
Everybody on the show laughs, even you laugh. Then the man leaves the stage. Out comes a different comedian. He's caucasian, short, fat, with dark hair. He starts talking throwing out jokes to the crowd.
"Has anybody ever seen a black man with a hockey stick in their hands?"
The crowd kind of stops and thinks to laugh or not.
That's what this edition of Crap Talk is about. Not racism, but jokes on races. How come when an African American person says a white man cannot jump, everbody's laughing, even white people. When a white person says a joke about African American people, nobody really laughs. The African Americans seem to think it's wrong to say jokes about them. See it's funny to everyone when African Americans say it, but when you reverse it around...jeez did you hear what that guy said. It's sad, comedy is meant to be funny for all races. This article is not meant to piss off any African Americans, but a message to everyone to think about how we should treat each other, and comedians should come up with new jokes.
Shout out to you Chris Rock.
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by Kellen Berg |
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