I am studying in Italy. A couple of months ago we had such a “scandal”: I, this same friend and a company from the parallel class were standing in the school yard and talking. Among these guys was a new guy – an African (he is an Italian, just a black).

Well, they joked, they went on to stereotypical jokes, jokes about vodka and communists were poured into my address and jokes about a friend's "stupid" blondes (she is a natural blonde). Most of all, of course, the black guy joked. Absolutely no one was hurt, everyone was perceived normally. And then a friend joked about black, something about bananas and the jungle said, I don't remember exactly. Black got angry as I don’t know what, broke up, said, we are racists, and what shit at all, and so on. The girlfriend also got angry with him, saying that you can joke about the rest, but about you not, what nonsense?

As a result, everyone came to the director, because the black man officially complained about “insulting a racist character” (I don’t know how correctly translated into Russian).



A friend told her that she had to apologize to him before the whole school. She refused, unless he did the same for his jokes about the blonde. He said that joking about blondes is not racism and nothing at all, so only she should apologize. After this phrase she issued:

"Do you know why I can't be called a racist? Because I don’t even divide people into “races” like dogs. For me, the color of skin, hair or eyes is a purely national or just an external feature. Therefore, jokes about blondes do not offend me as much as jokes about black people and national stereotypes would offend me. But the fact that you share these types of undercover shows that you are the only racist here. You can’t joke about black people, you can’t joke about white people. So he went off, a crazy racist.”



The crazy racist did not know what to answer, and a friend came out the winner of this scandal. Those are things. Good you and less inadequate blacks in life)