Change. Except in that way. That way probably won't come for a while.
This week’s poor life decision to read other states’ news takes us to Mississippi where mayors are not seeking re-election for all sorts of depressing reasons and unemployment is near 10% so the state newspaper of record made a severely funny-looking graphic to cheer everybody up.
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Yeah, screw Mississippi. I’m tired of Mississippi. It’s just too damn depressing and exploitable.
Instead, let’s go back (as much as I don’t want to) to The Foul Parallelogram to the North, better known as Tennessee, where a poll shows that apparently a lot of people like to make racist jokes about Barack Obama:
More than two-thirds of Tennessee residents polled — 70 percent — said they had heard or read jokes about the new president’s race. One out of six admitted to cracking a racist joke themselves. Only 15 percent said they thought such jokes were funny.
‘Those results don’t make a lot of sense,’ said MTSU Poll Director Ken Blake. ‘Two-thirds of the people say they’ve heard these jokes, but most say they aren’t telling them and most say they don’t enjoy them. Then where are the jokes coming from?’
Just a guess, but maybe white Republicans?
Blake was inspired to add the joke question to the survey after a series of high-profile cases of politicians whose attempts at race-oriented jokes at the president’s expense fell flat. In one case, former Tennessee GOP Chairman Chip Saltsman made headlines after he circulated a song entitled [sic] ‘Barack the Magic Negro’ to members of the Republican National Committee. The resulting furor effectively torpedoed Saltsman’s bid for the RNC chairmanship.
He should have encouraged an economic Armageddon. That goes over pretty well with the GOP rank-and-file these days, it seems.
But it gets better.
Okay, people. When I wrote the article about racist Obama jokes circulating in Tennessee … that was not meant as an invitation to call me and leave racist Obama jokes on my voice mail.
No, really.
I’ve now officially heard them all. The one about this being the United States of Africa? Heard it. The one about what the NAACP really stands for? Heard it. if I hear the one about how we’re going to have to repaint the White House one more time, I’m personally going to skew the curve of the next MTSU poll.
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Well, there you go then.
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