living in south florida, its mainly directed at jewish lawyers.

i do know, i googled it even before you did

I read up on it too. Looks like it's etymology was essentially german as Red indicated but through general assumption of being a racial slur, it kind of became one. Kind of like the term "niggardly."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversies_about_the_word_"niggardly"

What people seem to ignore is that a slur is not a slur when not intended to be slur. I doubt the shyster was meant to be racist.

sometimes you take yourself too seriously, enjoy yourself