Racial Jokes That Aren’t Funny / Stereohyped

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Because it's what they do, the New York Post has compiled a list of the 50 best (their word) jokes of the last 12 months, a feat that accomplishes little more than to confirm everyone's assumptions: the Post can never be intentionally funny.

Of the greatest 50 quips in the world today, at least 40 are completely void of humor and hackneyed, two or three are not jokes at all and seven mock either African Americans or women (four for the ladies and three for the blacks). All in all, we think the whole exercise was just the Post endorsing Obama in the only way it knows how.

"Jokes" are after the jump.

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Apr 9, 2008 · posted by Cord Jefferson · Link · 11 Responses

Minority Report

Magic Johnson's steps to becoming a business mogul: Number 1 -- be really, really good at basketball...

Tufts University needed a panel to tell them that editors at a conservative student journal harassed blacks when they printed this "parody" Christmas carol. [SCT]

Magic Johnson offers young entrepreneurs the tools he used to succeed in business, but I'm not sure things will sail as smoothly for people who haven't already racked up millions in the NBA. [OS]

Lucille Clifton is the first black woman to receive the Ruth Lilly prize — one of the highest poetry honors. [CBC]

Black Lawyers for America are boycotting the Jamestown 2007 festivities because they say it "whitewashes" the event that brought colonialism to America. Isn't this what I've been saying? [IHT]

Human resources employees at Cisco Systems need some diversity training, says the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. [SFEx]

May 11, 2007 · posted by Lauren Williams, Stereohyped · Link · 1 Response