I have a question.
You work in an office with two managers named Joe, one of whom is white and the other one black. You don't quite have a handle on the black guy's last name yet and the phone rings and you pick it up. It's for Joe the African-American. If you say on the intercom "black Joe pick up line 2" is that considered racial? Conversely you can also say at another time "white Joe line 1" OR do you just say "Joe pick up line..." and let them both pick it up?
Things that make you go hmmmm.
ReplyDeleteOf course in a less pc age you might do this just for kicks and Black Joe would laugh, there'd be no danger of losing your job so don't try this at home folks, leave it to the professionals and have Chris Rock come in and do it.
ReplyDeleteOf course you can have a 3rd Joe who's gay, "gay Joe line 3",
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Nowadays people have this thing about what they call cultural stereotyping like when Fuzzy Zoeller said if Tiger won the tournie he'd get to pick the menu for next year and would go with the collard greens and fried chicken and so he's been pilloried for life over it. You know though it ain't real cultural stereotyping at all as African-Americans have their own lifestyle foods as the rest of the groups and I happen to dig soul food anyway so what's the big deal? So the cat's out of the bag and they're big on fried chicken and ribs like the French are into wine and souffles, hell I'll eat chicken and ribs any day. There's an old joke too you can't say anymore (except here of course as long as Lee ain't the mod): "How do we know Adam was white? Ever try to take a rib away from a black man?"
ReplyDeleteOK I said it now DEAL with it.
Are black people the only thing you think about?
ReplyDeleteDo you think Black people are capable of anything good?
Why are white people so racist?? You REALLY need to stop being stereotypical. It's time you got past Amos and Andy.
You REALLY need to stop being so racist
Oh I get it, you're parodying the pc person, gotcha.
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But here's a Polish one anyway. Seems 3 guys were going to the electric chair, an Italian, a Jew and a Polish guy. The chair didn't work for the Italian so they gave him a reprieve, same thing for the Jew so it was the Polish guy's turn and he goes "you forgot to plug it in."
ReplyDeleteHonestly though I hardly know any black jokes at all, I mean is there some "101 Black Jokes" out there that I'm not aware of? I do know a good gay joke that I'll leave for now because there's really no way of cleaning it up but it's funny as hell and interestingly enough it was told to me by a hardcore liberal Dem who is very pro-gay and absolutely hates everything Republican but at least he ain't politically correct and has a sense of humor, I like that it's healthy. A fellow liberal co-worker of mine upon hearing it said "the best jokes are not pc."
ReplyDeleteGood Lord, I like my coffee plain but when asked at a restaurant how I like my coffee I am afraid to say "black" because I don't want to offend anyone.
ReplyDeleteAnd if you think Z only talks about blacks maybe you should read a bit more here, he has a wide range of topics he discusses. Unless Storm you are incapable of scrolling down.
I'm not that big on Jewish jokes which pretty much boil down to punchlines about greed but Amos and Andy have nothing whatsoever to do with if you have a fried chicken and rib place in town a good proportion of your customer base will be African-American. I mean let's say you're an entreprenurial type and plan to open up an eatery in a mostly minority community, heck let's say most people there are Hispanic you're gonna go with your beef empanadas, quesadillas and tacos I would think. Now a person like stormie, being pc to the max, would probably open up a French cuisine place so as not to offend but the folks would see he's fronting.
ReplyDeleteComing back from a funeral this week took me through neighborhoods I never have been, and I swear I saw an store called African-American Grocery Store, amd I'm thinking WTF if there was a WASP Grocery Store you'd hear about that from Jesse (when he's done cutting Obama).
ReplyDelete& the Irish don't drink. Like my list of Stranded from A to Z care for a list of Irish pubs and taverns in my neck of the woods? I might get the carpel thing just typing it all out.
ReplyDelete(just at this very moment some Brian guy trolling cyberspace just read this and is preparing to post a comment under an assumed name like "wisteria said...")
You know Beth in looking over my blogging history from time to time I've noticed that I probably talk about things like only one day off a week more than black people, then again if I had that 2nd day off I could blog more about black people.
ReplyDelete(that's a joke Ted)
stormie is just talking smack.
ReplyDeleteDon't worry Z, the best are always underestimated in their own time.
ReplyDeleteI was just re-watching this DVD, "Body Double" directed by Brian de Palma and in the special features section he made the point that the movies that have stood the test of time always got bad reviews and attention when they first came out. Well anyway maybe people will see our blogs in a different light in 20 years time, can you wait that long?
ReplyDeleteI'm typically not that patient, you?
ReplyDeletePut it this way, patience is definitely not my strong point, my forte and I gather a good number of people are the same way. You have a bad boss let's say and most would say ship the bastard out to another branch already, what's the holdup? Do you feel patience is a virtue? Many times it is but other times people who say to be patient are advocates for the status-quo and it's really code for they don't believe in change themselves. Patience? me? you're driving behind somebody going slow in the fast lane, how is this a virtue? You know you blogged recently why doesn't Obama, a one-term senator, wait a few years before running for president, what's the big hurry? and I still hold to my point, he ain't the patient type. When you're on fire with ideas (right or wrong depends on your viewpoint and isn't really relevant to my point here anyway) you feel the moment is NOW. I'm not that big on patience. You could be patient waiting for something positive to happen and get hit by a beer truck. Life is short, who has time for patience?
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