Question:
Why do white people make racist jokes about other cultures in front of blacks and expect us to go along with it when we know they make jokes about us when we leave the room?

In one of the major towns near where I live, a 92-year-old black women [sic] was shot to death. Because she lived alone in a bad neighborhood, she had bars on her home and a gun for protection. The manager of the facility where I work was making racist jokes about the ghetto grandmother holding her gun sideways and taking out some cops. Why do white people think this kind of thing is okay? I truly don’t get it.

Answer:
Thank you for making this point. I don’t get it either.

Perhaps some people reading this will see themselves in the first paragraph and think about it.

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Question:
Why is it that when white people tell a minority joke, they all think it’s really funny, but when a minority tells a white joke right after they finished their minority joke, they don’t think it is funny … it seem to me that [they] can’t take it. Is that true?

Answer:
I think most people “can’t take it,” which is why racial jokes are cruel.

White people in the United States have very little experience being the object of a racial joke. When you combine that with the common white misperception that we’re “normal,” hearing a white joke is very disorienting for the average white person.

By the way, I am disappointed that I am in the distinct minority of people by not being amused by “Borat.”

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