Racist Comedians?

In class on Tuesday we watched several skits on different African American comedians who in my mind are absolutely hilarious human beings, but when it came to some of their comments I was not impressed. When discussing these comedians and their direct comments toward other races, several classmates found this quite funny and others did not find it funny at all. I believe the way that people take comedians is how they were raised and how open they are to racist comments by comedians. It seems that if someone comes from a more "urban" area who was possibly raised with strict rules about racism, then these racist comments by comedians are hurtful and somewhat of an annoyance to these classmates. I have always been one to look around in the classroom when racist comments are said by someone on the projector screen and it always seems like it is the same girls who take offense to these words. Why is that people of the African American descent seem that it is ok to call a Caucasian a "brother" or another word but if we use these words, it means serious business and possible fighting words? I believe if one race can use a word so often and not consider racism towards each other, then those races should understand why other races use the word in such a way that is normal to them. There are many things that need to be eliminated in the world today when it comes to racism and derogatory terms.

When in class on Tuesday I asked a question why is it ok if one race says a racist comment about the same race, then why can't Caucasians make similar racist jokes toward their race with the same word being used? I believe this is almost a double standard in the racism category because this is a country where freedom of speech is aloud. I am all about eliminating racism and the comments that come along with it.