Sometimes people pay attention on something that is touching, but you do not have enough time to analyzed it. So forgive me I’m late on those Times stories where a heap of comedians sit around guessing why Barack Obama won’t write some jokes for them. I think that it is your job is to make fun of Barack Obama, and you can’t, then that’s your problem.

Blaming it on racism is about as weak as me saying I’d be at the New Yorker or the New York Times if it weren’t for racism. I get that it’s easier for David Alan Grier to make jokes than Jimmy Kimmel. If your main line about John McCain is that he’s old, you aren’t a very good comedian. Likewise if your only line on Barack is that he’s black, you’re not much better. I’m willing to bet money that Sarah Silverman will have material on Barack inside of a year. Meanwhile, here’s one of my favorite–if crude–examples of white guy making jokes at the expense of black people.