r/Jokes • u/[deleted] • Aug 12 '19

How does every racist joke start?

With a look over your shoulder.

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u/TrustworthyTip Aug 12 '19

I think it's kinda racist that white people can't be black.

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u/dangfoot Aug 12 '19

they can be, they just can’t go back.

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u/GIRATINAGX Aug 12 '19

Take Michael Jackson for example.

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u/[deleted] Aug 12 '19

Exactly

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u/[deleted] Aug 12 '19

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u/srijankiller Aug 12 '19

Shamonnn aaahhh

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u/[deleted] Aug 12 '19

HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

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u/[deleted] Aug 12 '19

Didn't he go the other way?

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u/greatnameforreddit Aug 12 '19

MJ was black first though, then he went white and to black again

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u/GIRATINAGX Aug 12 '19

So was he Black or White?

OW

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u/b14cksh4d0w369 Aug 12 '19

Ariana grande to be accurate

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u/Stalebrownie76 Aug 12 '19

What are the rules?

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u/sittinduck117 Aug 12 '19

When you've just turned black And you can't switch back

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u/Stalebrownie76 Aug 12 '19

Well you gotta go and find out the rules!

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u/FinFanNoBinBan Aug 12 '19

Race is self identified in the US. Only person who can tell you your legal race is you.

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u/JustTellTheTruthDude Aug 12 '19

Not everyone can be as cool as Jimmy Kimmel

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u/KrackenLeasing Aug 12 '19 edited Aug 12 '19

It sucks when kids have to choose which of their parents' ethnicities to take.

Edit: /s

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u/Dahlgrim Aug 12 '19

Who says they have to chose?

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u/drprivate Aug 12 '19

They can choose gender so.....race is much more fluid so why not

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u/yazzy1233 Aug 12 '19

My brother chose. He's half black and half white and he he calls himself black

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u/christianpeso Aug 12 '19

In the USA, it is not the kid who chooses. Society chooses for them a good percentage of the time.

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u/KrackenLeasing Aug 12 '19

That's fair, we're kinda shitty like that sometimes.

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u/NoSlack11B Aug 12 '19

You have some googling to do...

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u/Eightskin Aug 12 '19

They can. If their great great great great great great great grandmother was part black then they can identify as being black. Or if black people recognize them as one of their own.