Check out this discussion on NPR

NPR : Finding the Lighter Side of African-American Lit

Sometimes black people are funny. And yes, I mean funny "ha ha", not funny-looking (although Michael Jackson has clearly transcended the whole race thing now and is working his way into a whole other species... my guess is amphibian?).

But sometimes we're serious, sometimes we're soulful, sometimes we're angry, and sometimes we're just funny.

And that's okay.

Seriously.