I once worked with a fellow , so many years go
you could conceivably think these words were coming
from the grave. Anyway one day he uttered the following.
“If you’re all white you’re allright, if you’re all brown
you can hang around, but if you’re all black, stand back”.
Herbie was not a racist. I know what a racist is, just like
I know what a schmuck is.
A racist is one who dislikes another race with no basis,
that is to say they probably have had no contact or
limited, essentially no concrete knowledge of the other.
A schmuck is a guy who steps out of the shower
to take a piss. Ha-ha!
No, at that time I took what Herbie said not as a slur,
but as a fact; moreover, a fact that stands to this day.
Islander.