A Swedish police chief has defended his decision to tell a joke about a black prostitute in front of 128 colleagues.
At a police association meeting last week, Ljungby police chief Hans Qvant took to the stage and cracked a gag about a black prostitute who asks a man if he wants to go home with her and have sex. The punch line of the joke comes when the man asks the prostitute: “What am I going to do in Africa?”
In an interview with Sveriges Radio Gothenburg, Mr Qvant said he was simply trying to entertain the crowd by dressing up and telling jokes. “There was no entertainment in connection with the dinner at the end of the congress. And I have always thought that it was fun to imitate,” he said.
Not everyone was supportive of Qvant’s controversial choice of material however. Lena Nitz, chairwoman of the Swedish Police Federation, is part of a team elected to tackle questionable police ethics.
“I thought that this was totally unacceptable,” she told the broadcaster. “People can take offence and several came to me the day after who were upset.” Nitz also confirmed that she has spoken to Mr Qvant about the embarrassing incident.
Mr Qvant was apparently surprised by the angry reactions but has tentatively apologised for causing any offence. “It is possible that not everyone has the same sense of humour as I and most people have, that is up to them,” he said. “The joke is not playing on her colour, but his stupidity,” he added.
That joke is pretty funny acually, as the butt of the joke is the man in the joke talking to the prostitute.
“Cousin Arvid meets a prostitute who is coloured. She asks him if he would accompany her home because she thinks he wants to buy sex. So he says to her, ‘What am I going to do in Africa?'”
The more I hear about modern Sweden institutions the less I like the sounds of it — and certainly not if it means people like this Lena Nitz are are in managment positions in it.
hummmm for me as a black man i,ll not take the excuse given by the police man… base on the statement ‘come home and have sex with me; i wouldn´t believe the other man would have construe that to be come home to africa and have sex with me so i think its more to that statment in his mind that his try to make people believe it to be