Letters to the Editor
Issue date: 3/27/09 Section: Opinion
Christy and the members of the class chose not to respond to such passive aggression, figuring that someone who caught the last sentence of a three-minute joke before taking it out of context was not worthy of a response.
So, Wednesday, we open the paper, and there she is, determined to find a fight.
"Perhaps I sucker punched the culprit and am now looking for another university" was irresponsible, and far more offensive to me than a joke that you only heard 10 percent of at best. Was that your attempt at humor, Celia?
For the record, the joke was about the "Cracker Barrel" being a very Anglo-centric destination, one of the few restaurants left in America where one can get both chicken fried steak and a hat with a Confederate flag on it.
Christy, who feels uncomfortable eating around the flags of those who oppressed her ancestors, made a remark that perhaps there might be a separate establishment called the "Negro Box."
To those who were actually present for the entire joke, it would have been apparent that the joke was actually a play on the word "cracker," and yes, Virginia - er, Celia - it was funny.
Larry Mitchell
Graduate student
Playwriting
So, Wednesday, we open the paper, and there she is, determined to find a fight.
"Perhaps I sucker punched the culprit and am now looking for another university" was irresponsible, and far more offensive to me than a joke that you only heard 10 percent of at best. Was that your attempt at humor, Celia?
For the record, the joke was about the "Cracker Barrel" being a very Anglo-centric destination, one of the few restaurants left in America where one can get both chicken fried steak and a hat with a Confederate flag on it.
Christy, who feels uncomfortable eating around the flags of those who oppressed her ancestors, made a remark that perhaps there might be a separate establishment called the "Negro Box."
To those who were actually present for the entire joke, it would have been apparent that the joke was actually a play on the word "cracker," and yes, Virginia - er, Celia - it was funny.
Larry Mitchell
Graduate student
Playwriting
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Jeremy
posted 3/27/09 @ 6:56 AM CST
Sadly the joke is not quite has funny now that I know the full context, but it is still funny and is the word play and stereotype, not race, joke I expected. (Continued…)
Norman Farrell
posted 3/27/09 @ 2:51 PM CST
Abel Tomlinson commented on UA Police deploying Tasers. In Vancouver Canada, a formal inquiry under Judge Thomas Braidwood is being conducted to examine the death of Robert Dziekanski. (Continued…)
naffel
posted 3/27/09 @ 4:47 PM CST
I must say; my ancestors never owned slaves, but they did live under the confederate flag. To them, it was a symbol of the south, not of slave owners. (Continued…)
Alioth
posted 3/27/09 @ 5:39 PM CST
The drama department? Hmm, well they are generating drama...
Get it? ...
...
I hate you all.
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