Racial stereotype avoidance - General / Unsorted jokes (62381)





 


First...this is true. Entirely. Saw it in the newspapers and heard it from

comedian Mark Russell during a show of his that I worked on.



It seems that recently on the "Today" show, there was a white female guest

who was going to demonstrate self-defense she taught. She had brought along

one of her instructors, a black male, to be the "attacker" for the

demonstration. The staff at "Today" freaked, and insisted on replacing the

man, explaining that they could not be a party to such racist stereotyping.



The replaced the man with Bryant Gumbel.