What about the Daily Show’s Lion King bio, where Obama is the lion cub? That was funny (and cute), or another Daily Show bit where they covered him leaving the country during the election and the whole “Messiah has left the country” anxiety hit, or even SNL’s Obama super calm, the Rock (possible) mad Obama?

Obama humor can work, its just conservatives don’t get humor in general. Its not funny if somebody in a wheel chair falls down, or a woman gets raped, or a black person is forced to portray some 1930’s vision of life under slavery, but conservatives don’t get that. Conservatives just aren’t funny because their version of humor is just a continuation of bullying, not satire where you take shots at those on high or even make fun of yourself.

Peace

I think Chris Rock covered this pretty well:

CNN:Is it harder to make fun of Obama?

Chris Rock: He’s just one of those guys, you know, like Will Smith. There’s no Will Smith jokes. There’s no Brad Pitt jokes. You know, what are you going to say? “Ooh, you used to have sex with Jennifer Anniston. Now you have sex with Angelina Jolie. You’re such a loser.” What do you say? “Ooh, your movies are big. You make $20 million.” There’s nothing to say about Brad Pitt.

CNN: Why is Obama like that?

Rock: It’s like “Ooh, you’re young and virile and you’ve got a beautiful wife and kids. You’re the first African-American president.” You know, what do you say?

What little I’ve seen of SNL has been trying to do the “he’s just so calm and collected it’s funny” [eg, the “The Rock Obama” skit], but there’s not much you can really do with that.

I can’t read the article.  I keep staring at the cute kid on the right and his missing teeth and imagining his squeaky voice yelling out, “That’s racist!”

I will try to focus.

Okay.  I was finally able to read.

Actually, I think the problem is the right-wingers are stuck in grade school.  “He made fun of me, so I get to make fun of him!” is about where their mentality is.  President Chimp was fodder for jokes non-stop.  From his flubs in speaking basic English to his groping of foreign world leaders, he was a non-stop hit parade of jokes in the making.  Obama, meanwhile is more dignified and intelligent and there’s not a whole lot to pick on him for.  But the right-wingers don’t get that.  All they get is that Bushie was made fun of, and it was really funny stuff (I mean, come on.  Put his face next to a baby chimp’s.  Tell me they weren’t separated at birth).  They can’t understand that not everybody is walking joke fodder.

There really is a point that Obama is not the sort of person that jokes really stick to. Even the Daily Show stuff is more jokes about the way other people see Obama than about the man himself.

He portrays a level of personal dignity and seriousness that makes casual jokes - the standup one-liner kind - just really hard to apply. So most of the attempts seem pretty lame, or racist, because, really, they are.

Dan, I’d say that if you make a distinction between Obama humor and Obama jokes, the vast majority of anything remotely funny falls into the former rather than the latter.

Besides, Bush, and to a lesser but still real degree Clinton, made making jokes so damn easy that a lot of people either got lazy or developed a running format that just doesn’t lend itself to the new guy.

There’s a big difference between having fun with someone and making fun of them, and Obama simply (so far?) doesn’t lend himself to being made fun of.

It also doesn’t help that Obama himself is both funny and self-deprecating.  It takes the fun out of the mean-spirited humor that Republicans love so much.  But anyway, things that are funny about Obama?

* http://www.streetsblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/06_16/obama_bike.jpg he looks like the dad from Calvin and Hobbes when he’s riding a bike and wears seriously unfashionable jeans.

* He tried to shake hands when introduced to a 7-year-old and had to be patiently corrected by his daughter that this was not their social custom.

* He has somehow managed to raise kids that think Hannah Montana and the Jonas Brothers are the peak of musical achievement.

It’s not, you know, impossible to find jokes.  They’re just not as ‘funny’ to right-wingers since they’re not based on racial abuse.

* http://www.streetsblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/06_16/obama_bike.jpg he looks like the dad from Calvin and Hobbes when he’s riding a bike and wears seriously unfashionable jeans.

Well, to be fair, it’s impossible to look cool in one of those bike helmets.

Of course, there is something to this I-don’t-wanna-be-racist idea.

I don’t know if that’s the main impediment. Over the past 8 years, it was easy to make jokes about the President, because Prince Bush was clearly sub-par on so many levels. You can criticise Obama on a lot of issues (e.g. continuing the neoLiberal bailout strategy, his continued coddling of homophobes) but none of them really translate into good jokes for Leno or SNL. It’s liberal blog and New Yorker humour, not mainstream humour which relies on easy superficialities.

What little I’ve seen of SNL has been trying to do the “he’s just so calm and collected it’s funny” [eg, the “The Rock Obama” skit], but there’s not much you can really do with that.

Exactly. “Ooooh, he’s always so calm and collected—hardy-har-har.”

In the case of GWB, it wasn’t just the “dumb”.  It was the “dumb” AND “proud”, that brought Teh Funny.

There’s certainly no shortage of people with a lack of language skillz, who find it hard to express themselves coherently.  And it’s just not funny, except in a mean way.  But when they puff up their ego to galaxy-spanning proportions, well, that’s too big a target to pass up.  Cf. “Joe” the “Plumber”.

As for conservative “humor”:
Its not funny if somebody in a wheel chair falls down, or a woman gets raped, or a black person is forced to portray some 1930’s vision of life under slavery, but conservatives don’t get that.

Ah, but if a black woman in a wheel chair falls down while attempting to portray a slave, and gets raped while prone and helpless? Conservative comedy gold!

It’s liberal blog and New Yorker humour, not mainstream humour which relies on easy superficialities.

Well, you know, maybe mainstream humor will improve.

Ha Ha, sorry. What am I smoking?

Well, you know, maybe mainstream humor will improve.

You know, I think it really is improving. I doubt we’ll see a lot of policy-wonk jokes making it to network TV, but The Office and 30 Rock are worlds better than the usual “wackity-schmackity-doooo” sitcom, and still manage to pull in huge audiences (the bulk of which, I’ll acknowledge, misses the best jokes).

“It’s not, you know, impossible to find jokes.  They’re just not as ‘funny’ to right-wingers since they’re not based on racial abuse.”

Billingham, that is actually the funniest Obama joke I’ve heard so far because it rings so true.

There really is a point that Obama is not the sort of person that jokes really stick to. Even the Daily Show stuff is more jokes about the way other people see Obama than about the man himself.

That’s kind of the trend I see emerging too… the Obama-related humor out there that is pretty good is actually making fun of his biggest supporters more than the man himself.

A day or so after the election, The Onion released a video showing a bunch of depressed Obama volunteers not knowing what to do since the election was over, walking around like zombies who have lost all purpose in life.

The faintings at some of his rallies, the incredible celebrity-level worship some have for him, the whole “Messiah” thing - that’s the stuff where you see the most humor about him, and like I said, it’s really more about making fun of his biggest supporters than about making fun of the man himself.

Radio and Fox News Channel talk show host Glenn Beck, who kicks off a six-city stand-up comedy tour on June 1 in Denver…

I’m already laughing!

Aw, now I wanna watch an episode of Backwoods Quantum Leap. My favorite one is when Sam leaps back into the body of Byron de la Beckwith and is killed when Medgar Evers runs over him backing out of his carport.

A lot of others already made a good point.  For 8 years we had a president who made the comedians’ jobs too easy.  Even Clinton before him made it pretty easy.  So I guess the comedians got lazy.  Now we have a president who isn’t a doofus and not involved in any sexual scandals, so they have to work a little harder to find things to make fun of.  I remember all the comedians jokingly complaining when Bush left office.  There may be a bit of a race issue here, but basically Obama just doesn’t have much to make fun of.

The problem for conservative humorists is that whenever they see a black person their first instinct is to dig down into their bottomless bag of Sambo jokes.  Some of the smarter conservatives have finally gotten it pounded into their heads that Sambo jokes are beyond the pale (so to speak), so they have to come up with some other source of Obama humor; but it takes a constant effort of will not to slip back into “Sambo joke” mode, and that kills their concentration.  That leaves the field to stupid conservative humorists who just go with the Sambo jokes, and then complain about how they can’t even make a few innocent jokes being called racists.

Personally, I think this is hilarious.

I make jokes about Obama, with most of them being centered around the theme of how he’s a giant dork but no one seems to pick up on it, because he’s easygoing.

For those of you who haven’t seen it, check out Larry Wilmore, The “Senior Black Correspondent” on The Daily Show, complaining about how having a black man as president has ruined things for black comedians.

Overall, the folks at The Daily Show have definitely been having trouble getting traction on the current president. Later in the same program, during his interview with Doris Kearns Goodwin, Stewart actually resorted to using his Bush voice to make fun of Obama.

But it’s only been 100 days. As time passes, and as objective reality brightens, more opportunities for cheap humor at the president’s expense will arise, and we can all go back to normal.

How does one make fun of someone who is charmingly self-depreciating?

“How does one make fun of someone who is charmingly self-depreciating?”

Magis has unwittingly demonstrated the truth about the issue:  it’s more fun to poke fun at the hopelessly smitten Obama follower than Obama himself.

Potfry

Or, she’s just pointing out that self-deprecation is disarming rather than enraging, and requires a different, more complex form of humor than the anger-based humor that comedians became so good at during the Bush years.

by the way purpleshoes thanks for that magis link

Potfry has unwittingly demonstrated the truth about the issue: Part of the reason conservatives suck at comedy is that they’re so bad at knowing their audience.

“Or, she’s just pointing out that self-deprecation is disarming rather than enraging, and requires a different, more complex form of humor than the anger-based humor that comedians became so good at during the Bush years.”

True.  But my point remains:  the gushing, often mindless worship of the man—regardless of what he does—is comedy gold.  And Magis’ comment is a mild example of it.

Potfry, your comment with links to instances of gushing mindlessness from this site must have gotten caught in the spam filter. Maybe try submitting it again?

(And no, posts defending Obama from baseless attacks don’t count.)

Also, I really, really hope you’re a dissenting Democrat (or other non-Bush supporter) because if you’re a Republican, well, the irony is smothering.

“Potfry has unwittingly demonstrated the truth about the issue: Part of the reason conservatives suck at comedy is that they’re so bad at knowing their audience. “

When a liberal tells me I’m funny, Auguste, I’ll know I’m missing the mark.  That the left believes it’s got the intellectual capacity to judge all humor is just another example of its arrogance.

Funny how trols can’t tell the difference between “mindless worship regardless of what he does” and “dude has only been in office 100 days hasn’t done anything stupid so far.”  To my puny liberal brain those two positions are entirely different.

Ah, so you’re a conservative, and you’re leveling arguments of hero worship. That’s just fantastic.

Also, weird, the comment with the links still isn’t showing up. Try logging out and logging back in.

I, on the other hand, am apparently suffering from some sort of transitory aphasia. “Leveling accusations.”

So the lack of links means it’s not true.  I get it.

You can’t swing a dead cat without hitting a mind-numbling pathetic Obama worshipper.  I know you know that, so let’s just move on.

Now there is an example of something Obama could do to make me stop supporting him: he could hit me with a dead cat.

First of all, speaking of aphasia, I like “mind-numbling” as a neologism.

Second of all, the lack of links only makes me wonder why you’re bringing your dead cat in here? It smells, like the rotting corpse of your political ideology.

Did anyone else catch the Will Ferrell HBO show, “You’re Welcome, America”? I’m sure that Potfry wouldn’t find it funny (“Family Circus” is probably more his speed), but I was cracking up during the “abandoned mineshaft” routine (basically a psychodrama between Poppy Bush and his boys).

GumbyAnne wins the thread.

Potfry, if you want your statements about Obama worshippers to be taken seriously, rather than a sore-loser whining from someone on the Right, it helps if you can provide some evidence that that which you claim exists actually, y’know, <b>does</i>. Just saying.

True.  But my point remains:  the gushing, often mindless worship of the man—regardless of what he does—is comedy gold.

News flash!  This just in!  FOX News lied to you.  Nobody actually worships Obama, and there are plenty of non-humorous things to criticize him about.  Only Republicans worship their leaders without question.  Look up “projection” in a dictionary.

Remember when trolls used to read sites before commenting?

Well, no, neither do I.

I still giggle when I see the “The Rock Obama” skit.  They did such a great job taking advantage of The Rock’s physical and comedic gifts in that one.  Part of the joke was that people could not believe that somebody who was that physically impressive could also have the chops to carry an entire skit—including the fantastically funny Obama impression.  It really was very well done.

Here’s the Will Ferrell clip:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FI7REWenmbw

Sorry if it makes Potfry cry.

I still think that the funniest Obama sketch was the SNL one where Gen. Petreus is appearing before Congress and he and everybody else is acting as if Obama being President was going to be a foregone conclusion and everybody was already nodding toward the throne, as it were.

Part of the reason conservatives suck at comedy is that they’re so bad at knowing their audience.

It annoys me to no end that I look like I should be part of the audience for conservative comedy.  Explaining that I don’t care for bigoted horseshit (always immediately followed by having to explain that one needn’t be a member of a disadvantaged group to object to bigotry against those who are) gets dreadfully tiring.

I am a comedian and I would say its part this:

“There’s just something not that funny about a decent person trying hard, you know?”  - purpleshoes

And that he is self deprecating. Also, you don’t follow good jokes with less funny jokes. Bush was such a gift to comedy it is going to be really hard to make anything seem as funny in comparison for a while. A big part of that is the lack of outright and obvious hypocrisy. Until his blunders or shortcomings are so big we don’t have to really spell it out the whole way during the joke, it’s not going to be that funny.

Think about the last 3 presidents and the most famous ways shows like SNL made fun of them.

Bush 1: Dana Carvey made fun of the whole “read my lips, no new taxes” thing because he did in fact raise taxes. And no matter how often they made fun of Bush, that was always a part of it.

Clinton: Before Lewinsky they made fun of him for always being shown jogging, but not looking like one. Remember the Phil Hartman sketch where he stops at a diner while jogging and eats everyone’s food? They also made fun of him being a jazzy saxophone player/party guy while being a serious world leader. And then once Lewinsky happened, it was all about his denial since he was surrounded by proof of his lie.

Bush 2: Well, that we all remember clearly enough. You don’t have to explain why it’s funny that the man uses English words that aren’t real when his supporters are always freaking out about immigrants in part because they might not speak English. And more.

I saw some Obama jokes on Jimmy Fallon’s new show, and the only way the jokes made sense was if they purposely went out of the way to misunderstand whatever policy they are making fun of. And he is on TV so much explaining everything that it is hard to know it isn’t true. It doesn’t really work when they try to make fun of him just for the sake of it.

I concur that the best Obama related jokes I have seen are making fun of the way others react to him, good and bad. I have also seen a few bits about what he must be thinking when having to deal with some of the crazy, which works as well.

Where I said “like one” I meant to say “like a runner.”

I still think that the funniest Obama sketch was the SNL one where Gen. Petreus is appearing before Congress and he and everybody else is acting as if Obama being President was going to be a foregone conclusion

And the thing is that we were still in the primaries at that point.

I believe that the Chairman of the committee introduced Barack Obama as a “guest” from the Foreign Relations committee and invited him to ask questions, at which point McCain and Hillary Clinton interjected to the chairman, “You can’t do this! He’s not on our committee!” prompting the shrugging reply from the chairman as he turns to McCain and Clinton and says,

“Look, what can I do? The guy’s going to be the next President… no offense.”

Remember the Phil Hartman sketch where he stops at a diner while jogging and eats everyone’s food?

Secret Service Agent: Mr. President, does Hillary know about this?
Bill: We’re gonna do a lot of stuff that Hillary isn’t going to know about.

There’s also humor in portraying Obama as actually announcing the kinds of insane things his detractors claim he’s doing, but again, that’s making fun of them, not him.

He has somehow managed to raise kids that think Hannah Montana and the Jonas Brothers are the peak of musical achievement.

Now that is not funny, that is just sad.

There may have been more articles written about people not telling jokes about Obama than there have been actual jokes about Obama.

Do people not read The Onion?

A simple search on their website yields 10 pages of Obama jokes.
My personal favorite; Black Guy Asks Nation For Change

See also;
Obama Disappointed Cabinet Failed To Understand His Reference To ‘Savage Sword Of Conan’ #24

So..have the White people accepted that President Obama is BLACK yet?

The Onion’s twitter feed has a lot of hilarious Obama is a dork jokes.  Some of my favorites:

Day 95: President Obama furiously asks Cabinet who unlocked Sakura on his Street Fighter IV save file.

Obama Depressed, Distant Since ‘Battlestar Galactica’ Series Finale

Day 40: President Obama forwards the link to the new Star Trek movie trailer to the entire staff. Again.

See also;
Obama Disappointed Cabinet Failed To Understand His Reference To ‘Savage Sword Of Conan’ #24

That one was fantastic. I’m a little surprised that mainstream comedians don’t joke about his geekiness more, but then again anything that makes geeky interests seem normal, let alone the province of a popular President, is off-limits in the MSM.

Uhura, are you trying to tell us he’s coming nearer?

Well, you know, maybe mainstream humor will improve.

You know, I think it really is improving. I doubt we’ll see a lot of policy-wonk jokes making it to network TV, but The Office and 30 Rock are worlds better than the usual “wackity-schmackity-doooo” sitcom, and still manage to pull in huge audiences (the bulk of which, I’ll acknowledge, misses the best jokes).

The stuff I see on TV looks just as dumb as ever. I guess you need to have cable to see the better stuff.

So would the geek jokes be half Carlton from The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and half the computer lockbreaker employed by Hans Gruber in Die Hard?

I guess you need to have cable to see the better stuff.

30 Rock and The Office are on NBC—it’s about the only network TV I watch (or, more specifically, download). But in general you’re right—cable is where the quality comedy is.

The geek stuff does play well to audiences that are full of geeks themselves. As a geek, I love that stuff, but you won’t end up seeing it as much in late night or mainstream stuff because they tend to make fun of the geek, not have fun with the geeky.

The Onion bit about Obama being depressed since losing Battlestar was hilarious because it was pitch perfect if you loved that show too, which I did. But even then, while it acknowledges his geekyness, the real joke came from how that was the exact reaction of many Battlestar fans. Or the one about Star Trek fans that forwarding you stuff about the movie. It is already happening with my friends.

Just like how the joke about Black Man asking for change is less a joke about Obama and more a joke about people looking at black people and not seeing them as people but as “oooh black people”

He is the vehicle but the joke itself is less about him than something already established. And Letterman and Leno aren’t going to make those jokes and so we won’t see them covered on a large scale.

Bush was the set up and the punchline.

I make jokes about Obama, with most of them being centered around the theme of how he’s a giant dork but no one seems to pick up on it, because he’s easygoing.

Harlan Ellison made the news this week, refusing his guest of honor status at The Los Angeles Comic Book and Science Fiction convention upon hearing he would be sharing the honor with President Obama.
Ellison was quoted as saying he was not willing to accept an honor by any organization that would honor a socialist, but according to some event personell, the refusal only came after being informed that they would not be able to arrange for a custom chair, and that the author, age 74, was concerned with the disparity in height.
President Obama responded that he had been looking forward to meeting with the author and asking him to sign his copy of the 1995 computer game based upon Ellison’s work “I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream,” but that he would take the cancellation in stride, and that he looks forward to addressing the convention center on the challenges facing America today, such as the energy crisis, the dissolution of the marriage of Peter and Mary Jane Parker, and the continued threat posed by Cylons, adding “just because BSG wrapped up it’s last season does not mean the threat is gone. Have you seen Caprica yet?”

The best Obama joke I’ve heard was one Obama himself told. “Contrary to the rumors you’ve heard, I was not born in a manger. I was actually born on Krypton, sent here by my father Jor-El, to save the planet Earth.”

Other than that…nil.

And “beyond the pale” has no color connotations. It means beyond the fence made of pales, or stakes from the old Latin “palus” meaning stake. Same root as “impale.” Pale, the color, comes from pallere, the root of pallor.

Seriously, my first thought was the Onion, which has been hilarious.
DAY 22: President Obama asks aides to alert him immediately if the Mutant Registration Act is introduced in Congress.

Yeah, it isn’t nearly as easy as Clinton and Bush I & II had been, but isn’t it a Good Thing that we don’t have a president that is so-bad-you-have-to-laugh-or-cry?

But anyway, things that are funny about Obama?

* He has somehow managed to raise kids that think Hannah Montana and the Jonas Brothers are the peak of musical achievement.

Hmm.  Is it possible that Ward Cleaver went out and got himself a really really deep tan, and then… ?

Meh….there are certain people you can’t successfully make jokes about.

Off the top of my dome & in no particular order…
-Brad Pitt
-Mother Theresa
-Barack Obama
-Louis Pasteur
-The Curies

Anyone else have names to ad?

“Hey Karen, want to go out somewhere and not eat?”

St. Peter meets Mother Teresa at the Gates Of Heaven and says, “You were a good woman. I’m giving you a nice halo.” Mother Teresa is walking around Heaven when she sees Princess Di, and the Princess has a much bigger halo. Mother Teresa goes back to St. Peter and says, “St. Peter, I spent most of my adult life helping the poor and the sickly. Princess Di did nowhere near the amount of charitable work I did. Why does she have a bigger halo?” St. Peter says, “That’s not a halo. That’s a steering wheel.”

Meh. I didn’t even guffaw.

Being the target of successful comedy requires a certain something & Prez O just doesn’t have it.

“Marie Curie Aglow After Scientific Discovery”

Madame Curie loved Pierre,
And together found elements rare,
But they stood way to close,
And got quite a dose,
And suffered from falling of hair.

Yawn…

Coincidentally, I just heard a groaner today about him… it sounds better than it reads…

They said that a black man would be President when pigs get wings.
Now Obama is President, and after the first 100 days, look what happens…

...SWINE FLU (… errr, FLEW)

That joke has been floating around among BLACK people for awhile now.

And it isn’t about Obama directly - it’s about Swine Flu.

I just want to say that it’s really nice to have a pretty good President.  Things are lousy right now, and while I don’t agree with everything Obama’s done, I feel like almost all of it had some pretty good reasons behind it.  I know he’s doing a better job than I possibly would, and it really is reassuring.

Not that I won’t be pushing for my favored policies; indeed, since I know he takes public opinion and well-expressed ideas seriously, I will be pushing all the harder.  Just that I have this baseline level of trust that he is a serious and competent fellow who is trying to doing his job well.

That joke has been floating around among BLACK people for awhile now.

Make your point, Uhura, quit with the dancing around.

That joke has been floating around among BLACK people for awhile now.
And it isn’t about Obama directly - it’s about Swine Flu.

I find that hard to believe.

unless “a week” really constitutes “a while.”

As the Swine Flu strain making the rounds is only been in the news a very, very short time, and the joke literally makes no sense without that component.
KMac hearing a joke today doesn’t really put em substantially behind the times just because you heard it 10 days ago.

I could see if this somehow had been floating since November or something, but no, the first case was diagnosed on April 17.

This will doubtless make “her” angry, but I’m starting to believe Uhura is a white man pretending to be an angry black woman. A troll, trying to embody a strawman to upset discourse.
What nonsequituers in this thread. We discuss Obama’s general coolness and competence and she yells that whites don’t accept that he’s black. Huh, what?

And wouldn’t a supposed Star Trek fan have something to add to the “he’s a lovable geek” comments in this thread? Because all the fen(science fiction/fantasy fans) I know would be all over those. I love the Mutant Registration Act reference especially, since that is about Marvel universe politics.

Make your point, Uhura, quit with the dancing around.

From what I can gather (and using the vernacular of lazy comedians), her point amounts to something like: “WHITE people are racist like this ... and BLACK people are racist like this...”

This will doubtless make “her” angry, but I’m starting to believe Uhura is a white man pretending to be an angry black woman. A troll, trying to embody a strawman to upset discourse.
What nonsequituers in this thread. We discuss Obama’s general coolness and competence and she yells that whites don’t accept that he’s black. Huh, what?

1) I am a Black woman, but not “angry”.

To confirm my Blackness, please check my profile out…I believe I put my MySpace url in my bio. My MySpace profile is not public, but there’s a picture of me & my spouse on it as the current profile pic.

Seriously people - stop throwing out the “troll” label when someone says something you’ve never thought of… or heard of… or something you disagree strongly with.

2) There is a cadre of White people who are actually saying that the President is not a Black Man. I am serious! It’s comical, but it’s mostly annoying.

He’s Hawaiian, he’s this, he’s that…

Lookihere: White America came up with the One Drop Rule & the man falls solidly into The Black (no pun intended). It seems that in the USA, the definition of race mutates depending upon how highly esteemed / popular the individual is. A very rich or popular Black person isn’t really “Black” anymore.

And wouldn’t a supposed Star Trek fan have something to add to the “he’s a lovable geek” comments in this thread? Because all the fen(science fiction/fantasy fans) I know would be all over those. I love the Mutant Registration Act reference especially, since that is about Marvel universe politics.

No. I don’t talk about “geeks”. I was labelled that way when I was younger becaue I “talked white” & loved science. I don’t se the man as geeky anyway - Is any Black man who is not 50 Cent “geeky”?

Make your point, Uhura, quit with the dancing around.

Certain people: A day short & a $1.00 late LOL!

From what I can gather (and using the vernacular of lazy comedians), her point amounts to something like: “WHITE people are racist like this ... and BLACK people are racist like this…”

No need to translate for the Black Chick…especially since you obviuosly don’t understand how her mind works.

oops - typo