Mason got in hot water in September for calling Dinkins "a fancy shvartze with a moustache" while working on the campaign of Dinkins' opponent, Republican Rudolph Giuliani.
Then there was the Jackie Mason flap: The comedian, serving as Giuliani's emissary to Jewish voters, created a furor by suggesting that Jews favored Dinkins out of guilt and by calling Dinkins a "fancy shvartze with a mustache."