Arthur Blank the Atlanta Falcons football team owner in response to a question on the December 10th, 2007; Monday night football game made one of the classic racist off-color jokes about Black people and fried chicken. Arthur Blank said If Michael Vick, the imprisoned Atlanta Falcons Quarter Back, didn't eat too much fried chicken while in prison, blah,blah,blah------The reality is Arthur Blank said it.
Arthur blank has been white and American long enough to know that fried chicken and black people jokes is part of the racist wink and nod. To imply otherwise, as a statement released by the Atlanta Falcons Team in damage control, that it's preposterous for any one to note the bigotry of Blank's off-color remark, considering Blank does a lot for black causes, not only adds insult to injury but it highlights how the Blank's of the world don't get it. What is preposterous is Arthur Blank is so accustomed to off-color and racist jokes that the inanity of one was his only metaphor, an inept and bumbling attempt at gallows humor at the expense of one's misfortune and his purported gentility.
Racist jokes albeit jokes continue the dehumanization process material racism pursues.
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Friday, December 21, 2007
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