• ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    edit-2
    24 days ago

    The joke:

    The post to his Facebook page shows a picture of President-elect Donald Trump speaking to former President Barack Obama at last week’s funeral for Jimmy Carter. A caption above the photo reads: “Do you realize, by the time I’m sworn in I’m going to be a felon that worked at McDonald’s? I’m blacker than you.”

    I think there is both a racist and an anti-racist interpretation of this, but I also think that someone laughing at the anti-racist interpretation would probably know better than to post the joke publicly without context.

  • ZeroCool@feddit.org
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    24 days ago

    Umm… Yeah, there’s no way to read that “joke” as anything other than blatantly racist. But I’d expect nothing less from Wyoming’s GOP Vice Chair.