That's just plain wrong. Black people can ABSOLUTELY be racist, they can even be racist against black people.
http://videosift.com/video/Chappelle-Black-white-supremacist
Black people can even perpetrate institutional racism...just see 'blackpeoplemeet.com' who's policy is to exclude non-black people as proof they can do it.

Please note the actual definition of the word below, and that your limited definition is the secondary one, not primary. The primary definition describes the most common usage, the secondary one describes institutional racism, which is a side effect of the those in power holding to the primary.

Racism: noun
1. a belief or doctrine that inherent differences among the various human racial groups determine cultural or individual achievement, usually involving the idea that one's own race is superior and has the right to dominate others or that a particular racial group is inferior to the others.
2. a policy, system of government, etc., based upon or fostering such a doctrine; discrimination.
3. hatred or intolerance of another race or other races.

There is some dispute about the copyright status of "Happy birthday". World's most popular song is not under copyright, according to lawsuit http://gu.com/p/4b38k/stw

Attorneys have found a songbook from 1927 containing Happy Birthday, with no copyright notice – predating Warner Chappell’s copyright by eight years.

i think we just found out where @lantern works!
and also dave chappelles stunt double!
*promote

If you dress a certain way, you should expect that you may elicit certain responses.

I think David Chappelle says it best:
http://youtu.be/CD0-Zo4ZnrQ?t=3m42s

Proof that all black comedians are forced into drag as Dave Chappelle said after he returned from his self exile.

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Eh. Ultimately, satire can offend, but its goal is to enlighten people. If it's good satire, there should be a net positive societal gain.

I'm arguing that if you end up offending more than you enlighten, there's no net positive societal gain there. Especially if you offend a subset of the very group (targets of racism in this case) than you're trying to uplift with the satire.

It's got to be case-by-case, and it's often a very tough call. As I mentioned above, Dave Chappelle himself, by most accounts a comedic genius, struggled with it immensely in his material. And figuring all of this out is a tricky, ongoing process of discovery and dialog which requires a more nuanced viewpoint and empathy than you're showing a willingness to take on. Honestly it's a lot to process and I often wonder and question my own ability to navigate these issues.

Ultimately, I feel like you and many others just want win an argument and not really have to think about things like this anymore in the future. You want your racial satire and you want your rape jokes without talking about or thinking about any boundaries or grey areas for the purveyors of that comedy, and that's that. Black and white.

If something like this comes up again, welp, you already have an answer for that. You can just pull out your rubber stamp that says:
"It's satire people! Those offended don't get the context of the joke."

Colbert's character is a satire of just that kind of black and white way of thinking, so it's highly ironic for his viewership to mimic it.

Suey Park aside (she acts crazy), I personally believe many of you would be well served by thinking about this situation more critically before you jump on the defend Colbert bandwagon. Colbert is a funny satirist, but is not without flaw, and in my mind this bit on his show was at best a shitty joke and at worst completely unnecessarily racially insensitive (i.e. even as satire, it did not serve his point well). An article here talks about it in a more articulate way than I probably can:
http://www.blackgirldangerous.org/2014/04/colbert-white-racial-satire-dont-need/

This is somewhat tangential (I'll tie things together later), but based on my readings it seems Chappelle may have grappled with whether some of his skits were having net positive social impact, especially near the tail end of the show's run. From Chappelle's wikipedia entry (way more context there) --- "Chappelle said that he felt some of his sketches were "socially irresponsible." ... "According to Chappelle, during the filming of the sketch, a white crew member was laughing in a way that made him feel uncomfortable and made him think. Chappelle said, "It was the first time I felt that someone was not laughing with me but laughing at me."
--- For me, coming from somebody like Chappelle, that's pretty heavy stuff. if Dave Chappelle -- IMO quite brilliant both comedically and otherwise, and has personal experience being an oppressed minority -- struggles with what makes good socially responsible satire, that probably means it's hard. Really hard. Yet there are many people far less qualified than Chappelle in the area of satire creation and firsthand experience of racial oppression using "Colbert is satire, don't you know what [good, socially responsible] satire is?" (I'll answer that rhetorical -- No I don't, nor do probably most people) as a bit of a rubber stamp for Colbert being totally justified in doing this bit.
In my opinion, if there were ever a time for Stephen to totally break character for a second and just say "I'm sorry. Satire can be very difficult at times and we make mistakes. This was one of them. We've got to try harder.", now would be the time. As Chappelle pointed out, some people could be comfortable in laughing for the wrong reasons and not realizing it ... those people need a bit of a reality check. As the person everybody is rushing to protect, Colbert would be the best one to deliver it. In doing so, this could even more powerfully (than his satire) make people come around to the idea that racism is not just a switch you can turn off and be done with it (a la Stephen Colbert the *character*), it's a constant maintenance process like brushing one's teeth ( a la Jay Smooth -- Great talk here by Jay on just this topic ). "Wait.... even Stephen Colbert (the person) satirist master extraordinaire needs to think about race issues!? Hmmmmmmm..."

Suppose Chappelle has lost his allure as the "Flavor of the Week." Never expected it to be sifted(or embedded) or garner many views. I deliberately uploaded it to YT with no tags and an obtuse title because of Comedy Central and potential copyright warnings. Had an account banned from YT because of that before, a Chappelle segment was one of the "warnings" I got. The "New York Boobies" skit.

Still planning-on doing the cookie-cooking, looks like it's you and Lilithia. Remind me again which recipe you submitted, the chocky-chips or the one from orriteropo similar to his? BTW, I considered the cost of mailing two-dozen cookies to Australia and was gonna ask Dag if he might wanna give him a T-Shirt instead, me paying for the cost of the shirt and to ship it in-country from his end....Could be just as pricey considering how covetous he is of those ugly-ass shirts!! (Seriously, thought the thing unworthy of public wear, prob'ly works better as a nightshirt )

So yes, end of month this month on the cookies, as soon as I pm Lilithia again and make sure she's still on board with participating. I may do them this Friday and let the judging begin Saturday, as I'm supposed to be hitting the pub with the gorgeous judges this weekend with old friends from out of town.
That taco-meat idea for that chili-pepper mix is an excellent choice of use of that can-o-sauce-Sounds like something I wanna try now!!

MMMmmm, haven't had taco nite inna while.

I, for one, would like to see her on another game show: http://videosift.com/video/Dave-Chappelle-I-Know-Black-People

Dave Chappelle's take on all of this... http://www.snotr.com/video/3726/Dave_Chappelle

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http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/0cc0bac3ce/chappelle-show-dancing-for-different-cultures

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