Rasta Science Teacher

This meme features a class professor wearing dreadlocks and a Rasta fashion hat. A type of bait and switch joke involving intentional line break similar to Successful Black Man. The caption usuallyconsists of two parts 1.) direct reference to Reggae songs or smokers’ lingo and 2) an anti-climatic statement derailing to academic subjects in the manner of a science teacher.

The origin of this is with the tagline of “Lights his joint/ With Bunsen Burner” was uploaded on Quickmeme and was on Reddit as well on April 6,2011. The image was subsequently picked up by other hubsites like FunnyJoke, MemeBase, and Tumblr. Some of the jokes directly played stereotype of a “Rastafarian professor” while others adopted the bait-and-switch format by derailing into the voice of a science class instructor.

The meme below displays both of the description above. As you can see the man having dreadlocks and is dark skin, apparently from Jaimican descent and associating them with smoking or a type of dug reference than turning it into a joke by adding an academic line that switches the top line of the racist assumption. For example “20 PER GRAM IS THE RATIO ON THIS SOLUTION” At first glance the 20 per gram can be associated with drugs because the man on the meme is black, but adding the academic bottom line switches it to a funny meme.