What Makes it Okay?

There are certain awful traits that have followed the human race throughout time persistently and have caused us more trouble that we realize. Pleasure is dangerous (which is probably why some doctrines advise to avoid it all together) since we will do anything to acquire it. The most satisfying form of pleasure is pride and it allows us to live a happy, seemingly fulfilled life until the day death do us part. It makes us proud to make fun of others and it makes it easier to exclude others if we do it by color-coding. Racial stereotypes are inevitable, you will hear thousands throughout your life and will have to suffer the consequences- and maybe even sometimes the advantages- of seeming or being a certain race. Ministrel shows based their humor on the racial stereotypes of African-Americans just like nowadays we enjoy the low-brow "Dumb and Dumber" due to its "dumb" protagonists and their misadventures that we feel superior to. These types of shows were considered a "racist caricature" by the author of "Blackface Minstrelsy" and us modern readers find it easy to see why it is wrong to generalize a race as dysfunctional. We find racial stereotypes funny because we identify with them and they don't seem wrong to us as long as it is all in good fun. Many comedians base their acts on racial stereotypes and many more musicians gain their audience through it and promote it. The fact that a certain race identifies itself as gramatically incorrect and economically inferior it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy everyone has helped to build. Accepting discrimination as comedy affects hte way in which we classify and judge people but there also has to be a limit to the ammount of evil we designate to aknowledging racial characteristics. Where is the line and how do we avoid crossing it?