Human Canoe

[Fakhereddine Berrada]

I personally don't think your "joke" is funny. I don't need to quote
Fanon, Freud, or E. Said to make the point that racist stereotypes are
constructed through "innocent" jokes and the like. I'll just refer you to
V and GR. Try to read the signs on the back of the Bondel behind whom
Mondaugen is riding, or even more specifically try to locate these words
and/or phrases in GR: Marvy's "niggers", Frans' "unfaithful" and "the
Beast," Pudding's "brute African", Old Tehitcherine's "sultry native
wench", Weissmann's African "monster", Sir Marcus' "black animals", the
"Komical Kamikazes", the "nonsensical Nips", the "Juicy Japs", the "Yellow
Peril", etc. all of them ethnic and cultural stereotypess that GR 
undermines beautifully and quite unambiguously. I am not reacting simply 
because I happen to be a native of "that Darkest Continent", but because 
I have love and respect for the spirit of TRP's work, and your joke 
sounded -at least to me- totally out of place.

fakhereddine berrada On Tue, 8 Apr 1997, Andrew S. Chesnick wrote:

> A Frenchman, an Englishman and a New Yorker were captured by cannibals.
 "So much for your canoe you stupid &%#%#*@!"