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Very inappropriate. In this day and age it is unacceptable to make ANY remarks regarding race.

For example:

"There were enough of us on campus to constitute a tribe, and when it came to hanging out many of us chose to function like a tribe, staying close together, traveling in packs. It remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names."

-Barack Hussein Obama
"Audacity of Hope"

"The emotion between the races could never be pure, even love was tarnished by the desire to find in the other some element that was missing in ourselves. Whether we sought out our demons or salvation, the other race would always remain just that: menacing, alien, and apart."

“There was something about him that made me wary. A little too sure of himself, maybe.
And white.”

-Barack Hussein Obama
"Dreams"

“I ceased to advertise my mother's race at the age of 12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites.”

-Barack Hussein Obama

“White people — some cruel, some ignorant, sometimes a single face, sometimes just a faceless image of a system claiming power over our lives.”

-Barack Hussein Obama

"Nothing is more transparent than inauthentic expressions of faith: the politician who shows up at a black church around election time and claps — off rhythm — to the gospel choir."

-Barack Hussein Obama

I would also submit that minority-based "programs" (such as affirmative action) have made white Christians an acceptable target of racist groups.

Racism is not acceptable, regardless of your skin color.

so you think if he had a chance to change the name to the black house he would if any other race besides white would win the election and had a chance they probably would

I don't think that a joke, no matter the content, should be taken so sesriously. lighten up people, it was a joke, laugh a little every once in a while.

It was, perhaps, not in the best of taste, but basically inoffensive. So many people these days are so quick to take offense whenever race is involved. I understand that there are a lot of racist people out there, but I think that those who take offense at the slightest reference to skin colour are racist too. For crying out loud, people, lighten up! And I'm not talking about colour!

Good point Boots, If any black man had told the same "JOKE" in a night club the audience would have been rolling on the floor laughing their collective butts off!!!
The problem is, It was told by a White man period!! How can a man make it to his age without having a brain?!!........Wait, I just answered my own question!! never mind!!

He would have been better off drawing a picture of mohammed on a whiteboard. (If Obama draws it would it be...?)

First of all how can you ask if this joke is racist? It is racist and inappropriate! Second, there is such a thing in comedy called proprietary rights. If Chris Rock tells an “off-color” joke about African-Americans it is not the same, because he is black. The same rules applies to women, and people who are Jewish. You need to look no further than the Seinfeld episode where Jerry accuses his dentist of converting just so he can tell Jewish jokes. Any idiot knows also that if there is a joke that is racist in nature it is a racist joke. Just because some one says “sorry I was just joking” does not excuse that person from offending other people.
I especially find this offensive the week of Martin Luther King’s birthday and before the official observance. Martin Luther King who had hoped that we would all be judged by the content of our character. Yes it is 2008, and yet Obama is looked at first as a Black guy, and everything that he stands for second. How can I tell my students today that anyone can become president in America and it does not matter what their ethnicity is, or their gender, when at best this is just idealism and at worst a lie.