Re: "If Obama is President will we still call it the White House?"



On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 03:39:06 -0700 (PDT), the q is silent
<james.c.wagner@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Jun 19, 5:12 am, Joe <obri6...@xxxxxxx> wrote:

Well, bottom line is, the joke is funny.

It's really not, though. Not in this format, anyway. And you can tell
that it's racist at its core because of the clunky, disingenuous use
of "African American." If the bumper sticker weren't afraid of making
the joke, and making it funny, they'd do what The Onion did and use
"black guy."

-Jyqm

So you're saying that:

"Brarack Obama, not the first Black to ask for change"

is funny

but

"Brarack Obama, not the first African American to ask for change"

Isn't?

Jerry
.



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