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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This comment is unrelated to this particular story and more of a general comment- you should consider that perhaps when (some) white people find certain jokes about black people/experiences funny and (some) black people don't, there's a reason for that. Maybe when you're the group a joke targets, you don't find it as amusing as people who do not and will never have no connection to it.

I'm not going to call Jewish people humorless if they don't find a story about kids having to play concentration camp funny. Maybe I would find the hypothetical story humorous, but I would understand that as a non-Jew that just don't have the same perspective about it.

Then again, perhaps I should not have bothered to respond to your post since you seem a bit troll-like. And if not troll-like, a bit ignorant. [/quote]

While I don't think it's appropriate for anyone to make light of the horrors of slavery or the genocide, that's not what this guy is doing.  This is an instance where a black guy is relating a story about an inappropriate event he experienced, he is deliberately using humor that a broad audience finds funny, not just just white people.  If humor were not his objective, he would have been angry and offended by the reaction he was getting from his audience - which doesn't find his story funny because they're white, they find it funny because they're human and aware. Did you ever see Life is Beautiful?  How about the Producers?  There's nothing funny about the Holocaust but there is humor in situations, particularly ridiculous situations like the cotton picking field trip.   You don't have to be black to have a 'connection' with slavery.  We all belong to mankind and what hurts one hurts us all.  And, if that's not good enough for you, there are enough mixed race people that it's going to be hard for you to determine who is entitled to a 'connection' and who isn't.[/quote]

Did you mean to quote my comment? Because in the very first line (you didn't include that line when you quoted me) I said the story was amusing. In the second paragraph, I mentioned that the comments I was going to make were completely unrelated to the story in the OP.

Your comment is out of place in relation to what I said. Additionally, I am mixed race, so you don't have to inform me of how mixed people will change things.

Why are so many people having reading comprehension issues in this thread? Do they just want to rant without regard to who/what they're responding to?[/quote]

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