re: #157 Charles Johnson

Well, I see your point, but he wasn’t writing a New York Times op-ed, after all - it was one-liner on Twitter. It’s kind of hard to explore topics in depth there.

I wasn’t offended by it, I guess because I see it as the kind of thing a comedian like Chris Rock does - he’s not always nice or even fair, and he’ll throw you off guard on purpose, make you react, and hopefully make you think. In that tweet, I think he used sarcasm to illustrate a very real point that a lot of Americans never consider - that “Independence Day” wasn’t so independent for 18th Century African Americans.

Agreed - it was not so independent for 18th century African Americans. And no one has denied that.

My issue is best explained in 158. There’s a time to poke fun; and a time not to. And this was just - not the right time. IMO. Consider the wingnut in me.