I don't know what it's like to be African American but I know what's it like to be Jewish.
To my African American brothers and sisters let me tell you what you're missing. Folks will insult you right to your face. Contrary to the belief of some antediluvian thinkers we don't have distinguishing features, including horns.
Let me share with you the petty indignities. When I was in college we were at a friend's house and he mused that Hitler should have finished the job. That was the worst. A couple of years later I was in a professor's office just shooting the breeze with the professor and some other students. She called American University , AU, A Jew because of the preponderance of Jewish students and waxed about JAPS, Jewish American Princesses, being dropped off at school by limos.
One time my business partner and I pitched a Chamber Of Commerce executive about doing a directory for them. He said we would have a hard time selling ads as many of his members names ended in precious stones, such as Goldberg or Silverstein.
Fast forward to the current. I am on the Orange Line, the bus which goes from Chatsworth to North Hollywood and I am talking to this woman about how I lived in Orlando and liked to go to the library on Sunday but it's closed here. They changed the policy in the last four or five years so now some are open. The woman said maybe because there are a lot of Jews there. WTF? My favorite because it is alternately funny and pathetic is I'm on the Orange Line and I overhear this woman , as we are riding through Studio City, tell the person on the other end we were going through "Jewtown". Oy vey.
Am I sensitive regarding bigotry whether the target is a Jew, a Muslim, an immigrant, an African American, a GLBTQ person, an immigrant? You bet I am
P.S. It's 2019. I have Jewish friends at the gym, in liberal suburban Los Angeles. Two of them have told me how they heard an anti-semitic comment and they were mad at themselves for not saying anything.
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I grew up hearing gay jokes my whole life. My football and wrestling coaches would tell gay jokes (when they weren’t making us pray to Jesus).
Funny story. My downstairs neighbor was having a party so I was down there talking to one of his friends about woodworking and construction stuff. The conversation turned to our building when he said “what about those two guys on the third floor” while he made what I call the Fred Sanford hand wobble - meaning gay. The look on his face when I told him. 
I always try to us “Jewish” whenever practical. My Jewish friend says “we are having Jew food tonight”. It doesn’t sound good coming from a non Jewish person.
I never thought of “Jewtown” as a slur when it comes to Chicago’s Maxwell Street. But I could definitely see how people could use it as a slur. Maybe it’s one of those things - it’s how you say it and mean it.
