Basically, the way it seems to work at the moment is that you can't make fun of Black People unless you're Black, White People unless you're white, Women unless you're a Woman, etc...
Basically, for the moment, I think this is a fairly good way to judge things. In the future, however, Racism will not exist in a serious way (we're getting there already), and so I think Racist Jokes would probably become more acceptable, since you could be fairly sure that nobody would take them seriously. It's already starting to happen with Sexism - you can hear guys making sexist jokes (against women), you can tell they're not serious, and girls laugh at them, and then tell another sexist joke (against men), and the guys laugh. People are getting more and more comfortable with jokes about this kind of thing as there become less and less people who seriously think like that...
I rambled a bit there, but I think I made sense...
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