re: #349 Occasional Reader

I was definitely born a stupid white male. For one thing, I was completely illiterate. Hell, I couldn’t even feed myself at the time.

i was born a poor black child….
/steve martin, the jerk

I’m always struck by how comedians in the 70’s and 80’s were able to have a more honest discourse on race. Look at Eddie Murphy on SNL with Mr Robinson’s Neighbourhood, or the famous Richard Pryor/Chevy Chase sketch where a racist white employer gives a black applicant a word association test.

Those skits were all bitingly funny and offered real social criticisms, and many of them couldn’t be made now.