My black friend told me to stop making racist jokes...
...I told him to lighten up.
My black friend told me to stop making racist jokes...
...I told him to lighten up.
The joke plays on the double meaning of "lighten up." It's a common idiom meaning to relax, but it also refers to skin tone. The humor is that the person is responding to a complaint about racism with a racist statement.
Anonymous
This is a fucking amazing joke