Racism, war — and laughs for Arab-Americans
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NEW YORK — Osama bin Laden, racial profiling, airport security, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict — and that was just the opening for Arab-American comedians at a New York festival.
No topic was too edgy at the New York Arab-American Comedy Festival in a packed Manhattan club on Wednesday. And for a group often marginalized, if not mistrusted, since the Sept. 11 attacks, it was a chance to unwind.
“People tell me, ‘We killed Osama, what do you think, bro?’ I say I don’t care. Tell me when someone kills my landlord,” Sam, a Lebanese-American comedian said.
As the laughter died down, he declared, deadpan, that he didn’t think the al-Qaeda leader had really been killed..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20111001com3.html
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