Funny?

[Cato]

It's a matter of geography. Unless they have been severerly sheltered, non-racist people in the U.S. will immediately understand the intent knowing that lynchings were an unfortunate and despicable fact of our history into the middle of last century.

As a means of demonstration, if the picture showed a scene from a Bar Mitzvah and the caption said something along the lines of "there's never a gas chamber around when you need one", would you claim that the only people that got the intent were those that are anti-semitic at least to some degree?

Addressing the OP: I don't consider this funny. I don't consider myself politically correct and am quite fond of tasteless jokes, even those that invoke the concept of death in some manner. (What do you call 13 lawyers at the bottom of the Ohio River?...A start).

If we replaced Obama with a white male in the picture, the caption becomes meaningless. What I would find hilarious is if the same caption was used in a picture of two black men giving a white man an honorary doctorate. In this case the butt of the joke would be the racist.

[Tiberius]

It seems like a joke where you have to be racist enough yourself in order to get it.

...what are you implying?

[Jaysyn]

It seems like a joke where you have to be racist enough yourself in order to get it.

Or just have slight knowledge of American history in the south.

[Oldandeasilyconfused]

I don't consider myself politically correct and am quite fond of tasteless jokes, even those that invoke the concept of death in some manner.

Oh, I guess you don't want to hear my Holocaust jokes ? (popular when I was a teen)

I happen to agree with George Carlin,who asserted you can joke about ANYTHING. That does not mean I will find it funny: Gee whiz,,in the last decade ,there has been ONE American TV show I have thought consistently witty, with a few chuckles and the occasional guffaw; "Boston Legal'

Oh, recently there WAS another: the short-lived "Dead Like Me"


PS a famous Australian cartoon, published at the end of the nineteenth century:

[Napoléon]

Or just have slight knowledge of American history in the south.

Yeah, well, being British I didn't immediately make that connection.

The first thing I think when I see a black man and a tree isn't lynching.

[MountOlympus]

I'm sure its funny to somebody. Is it offensive? If you don't approve of racism, then I'm sure it is.

But yeah, free speech. If I want to crack a joke about Pat Robertson getting caught doing auto erotic asphyxiation and dying, then its my right.

[Oldandeasilyconfused]

I'm sure its funny to somebody. Is it offensive? If you don't approve of racism, then I'm sure it is.

But yeah, free speech. If I want to crack a joke about Pat Robertson getting caught doing auto erotic asphyxiation and dying, then its my right.

Just so.

Hustler once published a cartoon showing Rev Jerry Falwell being given a blowjob by his mother in an outhouse,


The Rev sued and lost.

[jonb]

This is my problem, the Obama thing puts a bad taste in my mouth, but this makes me laugh.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMghvnqDh...re=related