Speaking of that - when I was a kid people still made Polish jokes in school. My family's bookshelf had tons of Polish joke books. We didn't take any of that stuff seriously, it was like "Oh! A polish joke book! I'm polish! Cool." And now today - can you image a black family having a black joke book? Do they even make such a thing? Can you image the [fake] outrage over such a thing?
When I was in the first grade (1982) we had a "joke day" during show and tell and I got up and told a racist black joke:
"Why are there no black ballet dancers ? Because they all stick to the floor."
The gym class P.E. teacher was subbing that day and buried his face in his hands and laughed his ass off. The rest of the class was like, "What ?" (They didn't get the joke and everyone made fun of me for telling a stupid un-funny joke that they didn't get.
I didnt get the joke so I typed in ‘why are there no black ballet dancers’, hoping it would link me to a joke site... but then I was bombarded by people complaining about how ballet doesn’t change to accommodate black people...
Blacks used to be referred to as "tar babies". Get it ? They melt like tar and stick to the floor. It is a stupid joke and I only recited it because I was goaded to do so by my uncle, who thought it was funny that a 6 year old was telling racist jokes.
Gotta Snope you on this one. A tar baby is a sticky situation that gets worse the more you mess with it. Examples: The VietNam war turned into a tar baby for LBJ.
Having said that, do not make the mistake I made and actually use the phrase to describe such a situation. You will get hounded.
Yes, because OF COURSE that very old traditional European dance form should just throw out all its rules, everything that made it BALLET in the first place cuz some non-whites can't do it well. Imagine if white people went around stomping our feet and demanding people in Africa and Asia change anything they came up and have been doing a certain way since thousands of years because we couldn't do it well ...
Speaking of that - when I was a kid people still made Polish jokes in school. My family's bookshelf had tons of Polish joke books. We didn't take any of that stuff seriously, it was like "Oh! A polish joke book! I'm polish! Cool." And now today - can you image a black family having a black joke book? Do they even make such a thing? Can you image the [fake] outrage over such a thing?
What’s the difference between a pizza and a black man?
A pizza can feed a family of 4.
Wait that wasn’t an invitation for black jokes?
How come you never see black people on cruise ships?...they ain’t fallin’ for that one again.
How come you never see black people at Ed Buck's house?
Well, you see them come in, you just don't see them come out.
What did the black kid get for Christmas?
Your bike!
What's the definition of confusion
Father's Day in East St. Louis
What's something positive about the black community?
HIV
"That's na'cho cheese!"
Ha! That was my go to joke from 3rd grade through 8th grade!
We also told Bohemian and Pollack jokes. Nobody cared. Racism was dead back in the 80s and 90s.
When I was in the first grade (1982) we had a "joke day" during show and tell and I got up and told a racist black joke:
"Why are there no black ballet dancers ? Because they all stick to the floor."
The gym class P.E. teacher was subbing that day and buried his face in his hands and laughed his ass off. The rest of the class was like, "What ?" (They didn't get the joke and everyone made fun of me for telling a stupid un-funny joke that they didn't get.
Can you imagine that happening today ?
I thought the joke was supposed to be "how do you get black kids from jumping on the bed? You put Velcro on the ceiling. "
I didnt get the joke so I typed in ‘why are there no black ballet dancers’, hoping it would link me to a joke site... but then I was bombarded by people complaining about how ballet doesn’t change to accommodate black people...
Blacks used to be referred to as "tar babies". Get it ? They melt like tar and stick to the floor. It is a stupid joke and I only recited it because I was goaded to do so by my uncle, who thought it was funny that a 6 year old was telling racist jokes.
Gotta Snope you on this one. A tar baby is a sticky situation that gets worse the more you mess with it. Examples: The VietNam war turned into a tar baby for LBJ.
Having said that, do not make the mistake I made and actually use the phrase to describe such a situation. You will get hounded.
Yes, because OF COURSE that very old traditional European dance form should just throw out all its rules, everything that made it BALLET in the first place cuz some non-whites can't do it well. Imagine if white people went around stomping our feet and demanding people in Africa and Asia change anything they came up and have been doing a certain way since thousands of years because we couldn't do it well ...
.....I don't get it
Because the hair will stick to the velcro
... is there velcro on the floor in ballet?
......I still don't get it but now I'll stop asking.
In the 80’s my friend had Truly Tasteless Jokes that made fun of everyone. They were hilarious.
Spec: wow, surprisingly these aren’t banned. https://www.amazon.com/Truly-Tasteless-Jokes/dp/B001PBKDEG/ref=nodl_