Racial discrimination

AAA has gone on on a "crusade" of sorts ever since the Facebook issue. That culminates tonight with a discussion at BH103 at 6:30 of casual racism. I am a fan of jokes that make fun of race in a tasteful way, a la Russell Peters, because...well...I can't help it if I laugh haha. But there are interesting questions that arise...an Indian comedian can make fun of his dad's horrible English accent, but could a white or black comedian make fun of Indian's accent? On the Facebook, is it ok to have a group "I am Asian...and yes, I'm good at math"? I really don't know. On a related note, today the NYTimes had a story headlined, "5 Praying Muslim Men detained at Giants Game" or something. "We felt like outsiders," said one of the men. My initial reaction was ouch, that's awful! Then the story explained at the men were reported to authorities because they prayed next to a ventilation vent and food-preparation area in the stadium of 80,000. Well...for some reason, the circumstances seem to make the detaination more justified, I think. Take it to the extreme. What would you think if 5 men with long beards started praying onboard your airplane? I'm not saying that racial discrimination in these cases are right, because I really have no idea. I'm merely noting that I think we'd all racially discriminate--in response to more extreme cases for some of us than for others.