Human Canoe

[rodney welch]

> Well, Fakhereddine, I couldn't disagree more with your thin-skinned
> response. You misread it completely; there's nothing racist about
> it. Take off those p.c. lenses and give it another chance. It's funny. I
> got a lot of mileage out of it all day.
> RW
> 
> Fakhereddine Berrada wrote:
> >
> > 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 &%#%#*@!"