
if you laugh, you're racist!
i don’t know if you’ve been peeking at it or not, but each year here at the blog, i have what i call a Black History Month Extravaganza. this consists of made up black history month facts and fictional interviews with black celebrities (or their body parts). this year i took the party to the Twitterverse and some random tweets there led to this: a Little Known Black History Month Facts blog that i started on tumblr. again, made up black history month facts. all in fun.
not everybody found it funny, which was not surprising to me. humor is a very subjective thing, and my brand ain’t for everybody. i get that. i got a total of two angry comments left for me there, one of which was anonymous. the other had an email address associated with it, so after he (i am assuming this person is male given his name) left his initial comment, i reached out to him, thanking him for his comment, and encouraging any further questions or comments he may have. i don’t give a shit about pissing people off, but it’s not (always) my aim; and issues of humor and race have always interested me, so if he wanted constructive discussion, i was very up to giving it to him. i won’t lie: my first instinct was to be an asshole about it and fire off some smart-ass ‘satire, motherfucker, do you understand it??!’ response. but i’m civil sometimes. welcome to one of those times.
i want to share the exchange with you and welcome your thoughts and opinions on the matter. largely because the gentleman complaining demanded challenged asked me to. read his initial email here, my initial response here, and his reply to that response here. what follows is my response to his response. confused yet? lol. it’s kind of repetitive but…that sort of felt necessary. mayhaps you’ll see why.
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