It's Only Fair.

Comments about President Obama by Jackie Mason draw racism charges

Legendary funnyman Jackie Mason is getting jeers for referring to President Obama with a Yiddish word considered by many to be a racial epithet.
During his act Thursday night at Feinstein's at Loews Regency on the upper East Side, Mason, 72, caused some fans to boo and walk out when he called Obama a "schvartze," which is Yiddish for black.
"I'm an old Jew. I was raised in a Jewish family where 'schvartze' was used," an unapologetic Mason told TMZ.com Sunday night.
"It's not a demeaning word and I'm not going to defend myself." Mason then went on a rant about racism, saying, "If it's a racist society, the white people are the ones being persecuted because they have to defend themselves."
The Rev. Al Sharpton noted that in 1991 Mason apologized for calling former Mayor David Dinkins "a fancy schvartze with a mustache."
"At this stage in Jackie's life and career, he should get our prayers more than our responses," Sharpton said.

Ok, for some reason, this little story just pisses me off to no end.
Lets start at the end and work backwards shall we?
Why does the Good Rev. Al Sharpton have a damn thing to say about this at all? Was he there?
Or is he the "Go To Authority" in this country for the final determination of what makes something "racist"? That should be easy. If he says it, it ain't. neither is anything any African-American says. If you marked any other box under "race", you're wrong.
Then we have the word itself. It is a Yiddish word, derived from the German word for the color black. It is listed as "often offensive". For those non Yiddish readers, think "blacky"...
Here is a great idea.
Get Over It.
In a time when we cant use the word "blackwall" to describe a car tire, or the scientific term for a collaped star, A black hole, can't be spoken for fear of being accused as racist, When the term "black out" is dropped from news reports about power outages, to be replaced with the politically correct term "loss of service", or "black boards" are called "presentation panels", we have gone way too far.
Just listen some time to media reports. I mean really listen. The word black is never used.
I am dying to hear what the call a "black bear" or heaven forbid, the section if Germany known as the Black Forest.
It is a word. The name of a color. Like orange. or green. Funny, on St.Patricks Day, everybody wears and thinks green. Is that racist? I personally wear orange, but I am Scottish. Look it up.
The truth is, The Rev. Al Sharpton and his ilk are being selfish.
They want the word all to themselves.
There is a current song in the Urban Top Ten titled "My President Is Black". I have seen personal profiles on websites of young african-americans that describe themselves as "nigga"...Pardon me, but what the hell...I think we should all have the ability to use these words.
Why does one group claim sole control over part of our joint language?
I think all caucasians should claim the word "white". No african american can use the word. No more white wall tires, no more White-Out correction fluid, and dont even think about calling it white bread.
Hey, that would be fair right?