Are "WE" to easily offended??

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This post is a result of DoggyStyle82's response in another post to NewBee:


[B]"Newbie, I would never disrespect my Lord and Saviour, nor would I disrespect my chosen way of life. The joke was not about God, nor anyones faith, it was about da Bruhz, an obvious parody of our sometimes reputation. Why anyone would find that this discredits the Almighty in any way leads me too the conclusion that either the protesters are "holier than thou", too sensitive", or are just looking for something to be offended about. Whether the reader finds it funny or not, is in the eye of the beholder, but it is not sacriligious."[B]

I think this raises a different but interesting point. My question to GC is do you all think that African Americans in particualur get offended to easily by things? There's a case now at the University of Tenn. ( i think that's the school) where some white kids dressed up like the Jackson 5.....now they're accused of being racists. And we all know about the cases of white fraternities painting black faces, wearing KKK outfits etc. at their parties.

Can we take a joke? Why is it that we can (in our comedy) talk about EVERY other race and find it funny, but blacks seem to get so easily offended when other races do it to us? Is their a deeper meaning here that I'm missing??

I'll elaborate if anyone is interested..

I'll be waiting for Doggystyle to drop his always infamous knowledge..

BTW, this thread is not meant to "pick on" Newbee's previous comments, I just thought it was a good way to bring up this topic..