Jackie Mason calls Obama the dark word

Come again ...

Jackie Mason can get away with calling Sarah Silverman a “sick yenta.” She is a sick yenta, but it wasn’t because, as he said in October, of her suggestion that Jews who didn’t vote for Barack Obama didn’t like black people. Her comedy is just a bit blue.

It appears now that Mason may have been hinting at his own insecurities. Working a New York audience over the weekend, the legendary Jewish comedian called President Obama a “schvartze.” That’s Yiddish for black, but its translation is more along the lines of “darkie” and its connotation is wholly pejorative. (Rabbi Shmuley Boteach wrote last year that Jews should never use this word.)

Mason didn’t deny saying the sch-word. He just defended its use:

“I’m an old Jew. I was raised in a Jewish family where ‘schvartze’ was used,“ Mason told TMZ. “It’s not a demeaning word and I’m not going to defend myself.“

Yeah, and I have some friends who were raised white in the south and have Confederate sympathies. They still know better than to use the n-word.