From: redrocklobster@gmail.com   
      
   On Saturday, January 28, 1995 at 6:53:00 PM UTC-5, Martin Herbst wrote:   
   > hello out there,   
   > last night i have seen the movie spaceballs by mel brooks with a lot of   
   > friends of mine.    
   > so may question ist, what is the meaning of "schwartz"?   
      
   I just watched Spaceballs again since it's release, now in 2021. Let's have   
   another go-round after 26 years.   
      
   Mel Brooks' use of "schwartz" is clearly Yiddish, not German. What's been   
   noted above in this thread is all true. Schwartz means 'black' and schwanz   
   means 'dick' or 'cock'.  So it is curious that Brooks' uses schwartz as if he   
   meant schwanz. Obviously    
   schwartz rhymes with "force" so maybe that's all there is to it.  But I wonder   
   if there's not a bit of a racial joke in this too. It quite common for Brook's   
   generation (and certainly earlier generations) to refer to black people as   
   "the schwartze".  (   
   Please note, I'm not trying to perpetuate this, just to say this was a   
   thing.)  Could it be Brooks was deliberately conflating schwartz and schwanz   
   and making some kind of black dick joke?  What's even more curious is that no   
   one involved in the    
   production, Brooks or anyone else, seems to have discussed this in the press   
   (or at least nothing searchable on the internet). He would have had to explain   
   this to the cast, given it's such a recurring joke in the movie.    
      
   Thoughts?   
      
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