Mid 60's Humor Frank Sinatra and WTF

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But this argument is still being made, and with a straight face.

In Alan Light’s review of John Strausbaugh’s Black Like You, a history of blackface in America, (New York Times Book Review, July 16, 2006) he writes:

Most troubling is Strausbaugh’s central thesis — that those who are squeamish about blackface simply can’t take a joke like a real American. “Until the rise of multiculturalism and identity politics encouraged everybody to be ‘offended’ by everything all the time,” he writes, “it was presumed that earning a spot for yourself was a rough-and-tumble procedure. It took a thick skin and a sense of humor.”

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Here’s a Slate article on Royko that discussed this in more detail:

I Like Mike

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@ddgryphon

So, I packed my straw suitcase and headed for New York I even had to bum a ride on a ferry. >pause< laughter. >pause< You people aren’t paying attention tonight. (is this a gay sex joke?

If he’s talking about the Staten Island Ferry, it’s free. If you down enough to have to bum a ride that’s already free, you’re pretty down.