Jim didn't play the race card in this thread. Kerryman and King Brown did, they're the ones that brought it up. Jim corrected Brown's false statement about Obama's race, and observed that Obama and many of his supporters DID misrepresent his race in this campaign. While I didn't find Jim's joke about a man that is mostly white performing in blackface particularly humorous, it isn't anything like as offensive as playing the race card, and Jim isn't the one that did so.
Thanks for the back up here 400 Nitro:
I'd hate to think of all the "Eyetalian" jokes I've heard over the years most of which I've laughed over. IMO You can tell when a group has been assimilated into society as a whole when ethnic jokes don't bother them. That's certainly true of the Italians,Poles,French,Irish etc. that I know and grew up with. My neighborhood had all these groups and more. I could swear in multiple languanges before I was a teenager.
Many of the famous Jewish comedians Myron Cohen,Shekie Green etc. made a living out of making jokes about their own race.
Now due to this abomination called Political Correctness the only group you can publicy make jokes about are whites and they'd better be white males.
Jim