April 4th

Today in class we discussed and view d videos of comedians making jokes about races other than their own. The one video we watched was Gabriel Iglesis. He was making jokes that referred to the African American race. The problem that was brought up was the fact that he was Hispanic doing African American jokes. To many people that is not offensive, but to others this could be highly offensive. In his skit he played a joke on another comedian where he made a basket filled with stereotypical African American objects. So we broke up into groups and we were assigned a different race and we made a basket for that race. It was easy to see after going over the different objects of the baskets the amount of stereotypes that are portrayed with each race. i find these tings to be very funny, but i know when it is crossing the line.