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Silvio Berlusconi likes his joke about blacks being "sun tanned". So much so that he has used it again -- despite all the criticism it has attracted from pursed-mouth Leftists outside Italy:
"As he visited survivors of the April 6 earthquake, which left 295 people dead and 30,000 homeless, Mr Berlusconi met an African priest and said: "You have a nice tan." Turning to an African Red Cross worker, he repeated the gaffe, saying: "You've got a tan as well - I wish I could stay here and get some sun".
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He would be DEAD in American politics but in Italy his popularity just keeps rising. People appreciate his good humor, even if it does not conform to the narrow puritanism of the American Left. "Gaffe" my foot! Forza Italia!
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Back in the late 1960’s or early 70’s, Flip Wilson, the black comedian made a commercial for Coppertone sun-tanning lotion. In it he said that it was for people that weren’t naturally as tan as he was! So if a black man can say it, why can’t a white man repeat it?
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