Meaning of shvartze | Babel Free

Definitions

A person of sub-Saharan African descent; a black person.

Jewish, US, ethnic, offensive, slur

Examples

“[…] she irons better even than the schvartze,”

“1975, Robert Greenfield, The Spiritual Supermarket, New York: Saturday Review Press / E. P. Dutton & Co., p. 6, From the rabbi to the “shvartze,” the black man who turned on the synagogue’s lights on Saturdays, he was liked.”

“1988, Leon Uris, Mitla Pass, New York: Doubleday, Part 3, “Baltimore 1902-1913,” p. 270, […] they were able to afford a full-time shvartze to keep the house.”

“Jesse Jackson cracks a joke about Hymietown and everybody has a fit, but I’ve heard you call them shvartzes, and I’ll bet had your daughter married one you wouldn’t have cracked open a bottle of champagne.”

“‘We don’t have enough problems among the Jews, he has to go take on the problems of the shvartze?’”

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