From: ahk@chinet.com   
      
   Robby Langostino  wrote:   
   >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?   
      
   Mel Brooks would make a dirty joke? I just can't believe it.   
      
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