Thursday, April 30, 2009
Blog #9
many of us like making jokes but when the joy or prank goes to far thats when its starts getting in to a situation that no ones likes. a great example is that of cotati city councilman man who painted his face black and posted a picture of it on his blog. he expected evyone to fing it funny and amusing but the truth is that it may actually have done the total opposite. i was reading some of his responds i saw that many people where actually telling him that they support him but their was actually many who said that their town is know viewed as a racist town. the nnap actually told him that they were going to so eveything possible so that he is out of office an expreessed them selves that since they were african-americans they know what was racist and that the picture sowed racism. what i think is that all who are african-americans will find it racist while thoes of differnt color will find it funny. the reason why i say this is because we as humman beings tend to find everything racist of hatred when it comes to being something that has to do with our race but when we see that its asomething that has to so with a race thats not our then thats when we start to see the funny side of it.
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I agree with you, we do tend to think things are racist when it comes down to our own race. But when the joke is on anoother race then it is funny. Personally I still dont think him doing that was right especially since he is someone of power.
ReplyDeleteYou made a really good point about how things are funny until the joke is on us. If someone is making fun of your race, then you will tend to get offended. While if it is a joke of another race you will take it as a joke. I don't think the councilman was trying to be racist, i think he was trying to be funny and make a joke. He made a mistake by not thinking about what could happen if people didn't think it was funny.
ReplyDeleteOne of the main things about being funny, is that if people don't know you very well (especially a politician, where you always have to act professional) than trying to act funny will come off the wrong way or not be funny at all. And the cotati politician managed to do just that. Taking this "joke" as far dressing up as a black man really makes wonder... why???
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