Pieracki, a Polack, Odum, a black, and Alvarez, a Mexican, were out of work and living together. Pieracki came home one night and announced he had got a job. “Hey, fellas, wake me up tomorrow at six,” he said. “I have to be at work by six-thirty!”
While Pieracki slept, Odum said to Alvarez, “He got a job because he is white. We can’t get one because I am black and you are brown.”
So during the night they put shoeblack all over Pieracki. Then they agreed to wake him late.
Next morning when Pieracki arrived at work, the foreman said, “Who are you?”
“You hired me yesterday,” he replied. “You told me to be here at six-thirty!”
“I hired a white man — you’re black!” “I’m not!”
“Yes, you are! Go and look in the mirror!”
The Polack rushed over to the mirror, looked at himself and exclaimed, “My God! They woke up the wrong man!”
