maybe its just me, but i don't think this page is about about humour, or about people that are concerned or engaged about life, or about having a good laugh about themselves (which i think is essential in any political concern - at least as a starting point)

http://www.bullymag.com/7.12.02/jokes-071202.asp

i would more than welcome *jokes* about white people's habits - i think people in general are pretty funny (really, we are - please do insert jokes about me at this point, and point out that 'we' is terribly subjective) - sometimes (maybe especially?) when we take ourselves so terribly seriously, we are at most risk of misinterpreting cultural trends. and i think politically, we ignore the role of humour at our peril. we can be serious in our messages whiile laughing at ourselves - but i think this is exactly what this site (quoted above) doesn't do - you could say that its 'anti-racist' becuase it just makes jokes about white people - but at the same time its incredibly sexist - many of the 'white people' jokes are directed at 'white' women, and have to do with gender and sexuality far more than the politics of ethnicity - (and actually, those jokes aint even funny....) do we really, 20 years on, want to revert to that kind of crap? nic ------ Dr. Nicola Green Department of Sociology University of Surrey Guildford Surrey GU2 7XH Ph: +44-(0)14-8368-6972 Fax: +44-(0)14-8369-9551 Mob: +44-(0)79-5153-8955