As an aside, maybe they are typos, but I'm wondering why 'negro' and 'arab' and 'black' are all spelled with small letters in the recent posts upthread..

I've never seen 'jewish' spelled with small letters. Have you?
What's the difference?

When I was growing up in the 1950s, "Negro" was the referent that was officially used by African Americans. I remember the efforts that were made in my Northern community to have the newspapers cease using a small 'n' for Negro as it was viewed as a put-down and worse.
My memories of those times still cause me to cringe when I see that word spelled with a small 'n'. It's not as severe as my reaction to
"N-g" [irregardless of whether a Black person or a White person uses it], but it still causes a gut reaction.

And for the record, Art- I don't think that joke was at all funny.
But to each his own.


Azizi