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.

• Friend
• Race
• Racist
• Comedy
• Racist jokes
• Racism

• What's it called when a Black person makes a joke? A joke, you racist. JK, dark humor.
• Ahaha, I'm laughing because my friend is so black his mama killed the clown.
• My friend said, “there shouldn’t be discrimination, just black and normal.” That was also the same guy who said [link to joke].
• My friend told me I was so dark that I had no bright ideas.