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Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/living/columnists/leonard_pitts/13688506.htm

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And now, here's this week's episode of Great Moments In Black History.
The year is 1979. Carter is in office, disco is on the radio, and Ron Stallworth has just joined the Ku Klux Klan.
We are indebted to the Deseret Morning News of Salt Lake City for revealing this in an article earlier this month commemorating Stallworth's retirement from the Utah Department of Public Safety. Since then, the story has made MSNBC, the Canadian Broadcasting Company, and blogs from here to eternity.
And if you're wondering why the fuss, well ... it's not every day a black man becomes a Klansman.

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Here's the kicker: After a year, Stallworth's Klan contact called with the news that he, too, was being reassigned. He asked Stallworth to lead the chapter ``because I had been a loyal and dedicated member.''

I don't know whether to chuckle or not. I mean, it's not funny that there are people out there with these views, but it is grimly ironic, at the very least, when they can't distinguish, over the telephone, between a white man and a (supposedly markedly inferior) black man.

Posted by Beren One Hand (Member # 3403) on :

For a moment there I thought this was about that Dave Chappel skit (warning: use of "n" word and other offensive stuff).

Posted by Kitsune (Member # 8290) on :

Yeah, I thought of that too. The Dave Chappelle thing, I mean.

[Frown]

Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :

I never saw Dave Chappelle before.

Based on the link, it would seem that every skit of his is about racism. Is that an accurate assessment?

Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :

It's not 100% correct, but it's not much more than 1% incorrect. [Smile]

Posted by erosomniac (Member # 6834) on :

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Based on the link, it would seem that every skit of his is about racism. Is that an accurate assessment?

No, although many of his skits have racial humor tied in.

Other predominant themes are living with poverty, drugs and perverting social norms.

Posted by Verily the Younger (Member # 6705) on :

[Sleep]

<-- Me, watching comedy that is about racism, drugs, and perverting social norms.