RACIAL COMEDY

Racial Jokes and Racism in Comedy

Racial Jokes and Racism in Comedy

Introduction

Racism is belief that classifies a particular race to be superior or inferior to other and the fact that a person's social and moral traits are predetermined by their inborn biological characteristics, it is a belief that inherent differences amongst the human races determine their cultural or individual achievement. Racism essentially is a belief that different races should remain isolated and segregated from each other.

The extent to which race still matters is relevant to determining the extent to which racism is a serious problem in the United States, whether racism is institutionalized in society and culture, whether affirmative action programs should be pursued, and what, if anything, needs to be done about racism. The concept of 'racism' has received a great deal of attention in recent years and attempts to define it have focused on racism as practice (institutional and 'everyday' racism) and racism as prejudice or belief (individual and psycho-social racism), even theorizing the idea of the authoritarian personality, prone to racism. The paper aims to discuss racialism in comedy and analyze how sensitive are comedians to racism.

Discussion

Evading other methodologies to racism, comedy is emerging as a disguised weapon for some people to support their agendas to racism since it's an effective way to say anything and criticize any culture, race, values and so on in the guise of funny insinuation, but fun remains no more when you are under attack. While someone may be accused of crimes that are stated in the legal laws but who can be accused of these ignorant and prevalent crimes. Comedy at present is becoming more and more crooked and is coming out of its actual shell to encourage racism and mistreatment of populaces' values. Comedy in the present state of affairs is closely linked with a notion that fun and joy in comedy comes from criticizing or abusing a particular race, person, morals, or value. There remains no point in cracking jokes for dead babies, disabled rather than inviting hatred in the face of humor.

Globally racism was unacceptable after 1945, largely because of the Holocaust. International opinion, arguing that no person must be discriminated against on the grounds of origin and skin color, successfully prevailed in the postwar period. The fall of the apartheid regime in South Africa marked the end of a period of formal institutional racism in the capitalist world. Subsequently, explicitly racist positions were shunned by all major parties in Europe.

Racism is still an issue in English schools, with teachers and students expressing racist activities, comedians' research suggests. For instance, Amy Tan reveals in her essay “Mother Tongue” that since her mother didn't have English as her first language, her mother experienced much racism. However, extreme right-wing groups, whether informal or politically inclined, existed in Europe after World War II despite the defeat of the Fascists, the Nazis, and the Axis pact. Most of those groups were regarded as marginal oddities in the cultural, social, and ...