Comedy clubs

So for our anniversary, we went to a comedy show. And of course the three comics (Caucasian) all touched on terrorism. But two of them just seemed racist to me. Is that comedy. The rest of their shows are funny. And I understand comedians are usually well read, but they seem to dumb down the joke for I guess dumb people. One comic just said, sorry if you are not white, I think you are a terrorist. WHAT? Even as a joke (and it is not because most jokes are based on truth) it is not funny.
I have never felt self conscious about being Muslim or ethnic (whatever ethnicity people think I am) but all of a sudden I felt self conscious and a little pissed that people are not more educated!
I saw a great author on "The Daily Show." This English guy, who knew the history of America and our policy and internal civil battles better than anyone. And he said, you guys don't know your history. You repeat it, rewrite it, forget it. That is soooo true. So what do you do except b**** about it. I am going to read. Why heck it will IA make me a better writer too, but we do need to know our history. We need to know how our Middle east policy (even back during the civil war era---which we did have) effected our nation. The guy mentioned that we would send barrels full of "something" to the Middle east, they would empty them and fill them with spices, or something and that would go to the Orient, they would empty them and fill them with tea, and send them back to us. (Even then we had a vested interest in what other countries were doing and how it effected us.) And we manipulated them even then. So how many people know this...I don't remember that in my history class ( or much of anything important).
My point. Gosh we need to, as a nation, get our heads out of our butts and learn more about the world than the name of Brangelina's next kid or what celebrity is going into rehab!! we need to learn more about out fellow man and woman and how we are more alike than we know!!!
Ugh!