Colored folks, this is a joke people, not being racist (Page 5/17)
avengador1 NOV 19, 01:45 PM
I don't know if I should comment about this "joke". I did post it in it's entirety as I received it. If I have offended anybody, I wish to personally apologize for hurting your feelings, it was not my intention. If you want, I will remove my post and I hope all others that reprinted it would do so too. I do not want to start a race war over something so stupid as a "joke". I am Caribe-Latino-American ( Puerto Rican by birth). I consider myself an American not any other hyphened pseudo nationality. Again, if I have offended anybody, you have my sincerest apology. I grew up the first sixteen years of my life out of the country, mostly in Latin America, and amongst several different races and cultures. I have always considered any one of them my equal and friends, no matter what their color, sex, religion, or country of origin. I didn't even know that people were "different" till I moved back to the states. I didn't live here during the race riots and had no knowledge about any of this till I moved back to the US. What I did find offensive is how people here want to be treated different based on what their religion or race is. I never saw this out of the country and I believe people got along better because of this. They had a live and let live attitude. I also lived in Arkansas for a couple of years. There actually people there who are still proud to say that so and so from their family was a klan member and you wouldn't believe how they treated the non White people there. I also was surprised that the non White people seemed to accept this treatment. I had asked a good friend of mine why he put up with this and his responce was that that was the way things were and it didn't bother him. I just couldn't believe it. It takes all kinds of people to make up a nation but I still believe that a little of the separate but equal still exist here now. We should be united and equal or as I prefer to call us: Americans. Again I wish to apologize to those I have offended.
GARY TUCKER NOV 19, 02:02 PM
Well I Have to go to work now, don't you guys offend anyone while I am at work...wouldn't want to offend anyone..LOL
got news for you all "BY GOD, WE ARE ALL AMERICANS" SORRY I am not too PC
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DRH NOV 19, 02:55 PM
wudman,

I think you're missing the point of the "joke". It's really more of a social commentary than a joke. The point is how silly it is for white people to call others colored. The point of using broken english is not to stereotype blacks, but to further make the point that if even the most uneducated black man can see it, why can't they? It wouldn't be quite as effective written to Yale standards.

At least that's how I see it.

Voytek NOV 19, 03:06 PM
 
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Originally posted by Wudman:

One has to love the anonymity of the net which is a world away from having this discussion in a group. I would ask who of you that enjoyed this so much would tell this in an ethnically mixed group?

If the ethnic group is as anal as you, then none of us. I think you just proved everyone's point.

My satellite has a channel called BET. Is that not Black Entartainment Television??

I am still waiting for WET but probably won't happen.

BTW, a Polack here (you're probably going 'no, not with THAT name ). My buddy used to have a BOOK of Polack jokes. I laughed my head off.

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Voytek NOV 19, 03:09 PM
 
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Originally posted by Wudman:

ChopTop, there is a thread floating around called "White Trash", should be back a page, in it, as I will do here again, I will state that those Blacks who refer to themselves using the "N" word as some sign of respect have lost their mind. I find it perpetrates the issues that many use to make excuses for their situation, regardless if they are Black, White or whatever. It rates as ignorant as any behavior that groups or individuals who use the word to disparge engage in. Moreover, those that use the word freely in music or hate actions are equally part of a minority group of losers.

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Then perhaps it would be more beneficial for you to start fighting derogatory statements within your own kind first.

Formula88 NOV 19, 03:14 PM
 
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Originally posted by Voytek:
I am still waiting for WET but probably won't happen.

That sounds like a pay p*rn channel.

frontal lobe NOV 19, 03:16 PM
Excellent point, DRH, as usual.

When my kids were 4-6ish years old and were describing a black child from their sunday school class, their physical description would be, "the brown skinned boy."

Black is inaccurate.
African-american is inaccurate as most have never been to africa. Many come via caribbean islands.
Colored is vague and imprecise.

I love the anonymity of the internet so we can have open discussions and NOT worry about race, social class, nationality, appearance, age, etc. Wudman, it never ONCE crossed my mind if you were black or not. Didn't matter. Don't care. Still don't. I care about what you think and your opinions.

Now Voytek, on the other hand... Kidding.

Butter NOV 19, 03:51 PM
You can please some of the people some of the time but You can't please all of the people all of the time.

Personally I find the joke offensively funny. Still funny though. Ain't near as bad as some Richard Priar jokes I've heard and I find them funny too. Even bought a couple of his tapes so some of us other "Rednecks" could get a good laugh.

Wudman
Some of us can look past the ethinticy of the joke and see the humor in it. Are You that thin skined that you take offense so easily?

Personally I don't care what flavor the joke is if its funny I laugh but if I can't see the humor in it I don't cry.

Phil NOV 19, 04:31 PM
Just as long as you don't making fun of us Martians
AusFiero NOV 19, 04:53 PM
I really don't care what colour you are Wudman. Apparently idiots come in all colours and shapes.

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