What a major discussion....but I did laugh...I also am of mixed heritage and still found it funny. My grandfather came here eons ago and we still have his citizenship papers. BTW...he fought for the US in WW1 and some of my uncles fought in WW2, Korea, and Nam. What is not funny are the stories I hear at work from the spanish speaking coworkers. Of how they paid a certain dollar amount to be transported illegally across the border and how to get to a certain community near here. When they get to this community, they are to go to a certain factory where they are GIVEN a fake green card and all other fake papers and such. Once they have that, they are called legal.
One lady told me that she was folded into a tool box on a semi tractor for 15 hrs across the border and then dumped and told to find her way to that community.
And we wonder how some of these people get here??? Is that funny now??? To me...it's not funny that they are able to do this, because they take jobs, money, and health care away from us.
Is the joke funny??? YES..people tend to be very thin skinned in this life time. If no mention of what nationality or no person specifically named, where is the harm???
Let's just take this as it was intended and let it be just that, a joke. Like television or radio...if you don't like it turn the station.
P.S. Like my great grandmother said.... ( who was native american Indian).....If you have nothing good to say...say nothing at all.
Enjoy your quilting projects please? Hugs and sunshiny laughter to all :D