What was the context in which Jackie Mason called Barack Obama a “schvartze?”?
I got this in an email about a year or so ago….Can’t remember the source… Some Jackie Mason watchers are having déjà vu all over again. In 1989, the comedian/political pundit — who was working with Rudy Giuliani’s mayoral campaign — caused a major firestorm when he called New York City African-American then-mayoral candidate David Dinkins “a fancy schvartzer with a mustache.” (The word “schvartzer” is derogatory Yiddish for a black person.) Mason compounded the problem when he said, “There is a sick Jewish problem of voting for a black man no matter how unfit he is for the job.” Giuliani booted Mason from his campaign, although, according to a biography on his homepage, Mason currently writes for several conservative and Jewish news organizations. So some were startled to see a video on YouTube in which Mason says that Illinois senator Barack Obama is being taken seriously as a presidential candidate “just because he’s black.” Mason goes on to say that instead of running for presid
