Discrimination is a rather polarized issue unfortunately. You either said too much making you the bad guy, or people say that the other guy should have a thicker skin. Jokes about races are a thing you cannot get away from. Jokes are always about someones features. One guy happens to have big ears, another has squinty eyes. Yet another has a white skin (or red when he/she was out in the sun for too long). And race is just a really convenient way of grouping people, so prejudices are rampant (less than prejudices about people with big ears)

The real problem starts when people start to assume things based on race and joke about that. Because, lets be fair, how does that differ from making jokes about engineers or lawyers or any other group of people for that matter? The problem is that you cannot choose your race, just like you cannot choose where you are born. It is something you'll have to live with, whether you like it or not. But that doesn't mean that you can't joke about it. For example, I live in the Netherlands and we always make fun of the Belgians and they make fun of us. They can't change the fact that they are Belgian, nor can we change the fact that we are Dutch. We'll have to live with it.

So in short, I do think you can make jokes based on race, but in a friendly fashion. One should never try to hurt people by making jokes. Discrimination is a problem that shouldn't be treated lightly, but life without humour is boring. And some people just need learn how to take a joke. Be it about their ears or about their race.

Anyway, nice site and welcome to Hubski ;-)