if it gives you that much of a hard-on, anonymous...

Lakeland, how can you say the Beastie Boys have no talent?  Are you tone-deaf?  Have you ever heard "the In Sound from Way Out?"  Even without a single word or rap, they have more talent than all the 50cents out there combined...

Blacks and Jews, while living side-by-side and ghetto-by-ghetto for generations in struggles to rise up in American life, have not always cooperated or got along.  Far from it.  Crown Heights today and yesterday is a bane to both blacks and Jews in terms of relations and mutual distrust and hatred, Jewish landlords and poor black tenants, hit-and-run and pogroms.  Williamsburg isn't much better.  While many assimilated Jews who stayed in cities did become quite black-friendly, the reverse was not always the case, and despite many intermarriages, black-anti-semitism is still common coin (some of my closest friends are half-black half-jewish, and when they hang out with black people who assume they're simply black, they hear all kinds of routine anti-semitism until they choose to point out their ancestry.)