Team Rick Whit

Racial joke and story of the day

“When I heard they were trying to get rid of the word nigger, I told my accountant to buy 800 shares of coon.” - Chris Rock on race.

Now for a quick story.  I spent last evening with my sister at her house(The day was spent with her daughter in the garage - it was raining outside -  blowing what could only have been tens of thousands of bubbles while she screamed with delight.  Kids really dont get tired of the things they like… Ever.)  After several hours of watching E news and HGTV, I lobbied for some channel control.  She obliged, and gave me a half hour(yeah!). 

I quickly landed on the Showtime documentary about the making of Herbie Hancocks collaborative album Possibilities.  My sister had, of course, never heard of Hancock.  So she was much less than thrilled.  She kept quite during John Mayers section, but quickly started complaining afterwards when Raul Midon’s recording sessions were being shown.  Again, she had no idea who Midon was, and all she could muster was too ask, “So is that why hes qualified to sing Stevie Wonder, because hes blind?”  Me and her husband Chris just stared at each other… 

I figured that was the low point, but then she ramped up the crazy even further when, after they finished showing Raul, they moved on to the next segment.  This one began with Herbie walking outside of a cabin.  Before Herbie could even walk up to the door, my sister blurted out, “Now what is he doing, breaking and entering?”  Needless to say me and Chris were too shell shocked at first to even respond, me especially since I recognized the cabin they were outside as Trey Anastasio’s practice garage.  We quickly recovered though, and bombarded her with jokes about how racist that was for the next ten minutes.

Oh Sis.  You are such an accidental racist.  I think maybe its time to get out of the house and stop talking gibberish to an infant for 12 hours a day.  Your P.C. censors seem terribly rusty.  I love ya though.

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