"White People Problems"

"White People Problems"

Didja hear the one about the black friends who got all perturbed because they had to sit next to David Duke on a Greyhound? How about the black welfare queen who was upset over the size of her check? Or the joke about the black couple arguing over who was the real father of their kids?

You think saying such things isn’t funny, that they’re racist, that they should be condemned by the mainstream media, and the home of whoever articulated such insensitive remarks should be picketed by Al Sharpton? If so, you’re right because they are racist.

However, if someone spouts comparable venom on network television, they’re applauded–as long as the butt of the jokes are white people.

Former NBA star Charles Barkley hosted “SNL” last Saturday and appeared in a sketch titled, “White People Problems.”

According to Barkley and the “Saturday Night Live” writers, the “problems” of white people consist of friends irritated because they weren’t seated together on an airline, “a caucasian crisis” occurred when an annoying white customer at Arbys questioned the clerk as to whether Arbys’ chickens are raised on organic farms, and when a nasty white couple was confronted with the dilemma of disinviting friends from their 5-bedroom summer home.

Interspersed throughout the skit are a shot of “nursery school applications,” Barkley’s comment that the airline couple’s issue is just “white noise,” his dismissing the Arbys’ incident as ”awkward . . . a white people word that can be applied to every situation,” and blowing off the disinviters with, ”That problem is so white it should go snowboarding. . . .
(Read more and see the video at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=12090.)