More jungle love for the jungle loved

This should be interesting. Jeff has agreed to discuss his weird, compelling attraction to black women (something about the neck-rolling, I think), if I'll discuss my hot Hebrew love-goddess fantasies...Wait. Oh yeah. That's next week.

Ahem. Moving right along. In this week's issue of "Black and Jewish relations--emphasis on relations," I discuss my hatred of the white she-devil, spawn of Yacub, and Jeff chants "Death to the Goyim! But especially the shiksa!!"

JG: You know, nowadays, in liberal Jewish circles, it's considered a little odiferous to mention that you'd rather have people stay in than go out.  I can't imagine it's the same in liberal black circles, but is it?  Do you get pushback when you talk about the importance of this kind of solidarity? 

TC: It depends what circles.  In New York, you can't really say that.  In Atlanta you can.  In D.C. you probably can.  In L.A., I bet you can't.  The thing is the higher you go up - at least in New York - for whatever reason shit gets more integrated.  In Atlanta and D.C., there are worlds filled with high-level people and all of them are black, and interracial marriage is rare.  It is just not the case here.  Even in Harlem.

JG: It's funny how quickly things turn - a generation ago in the Jewish community, especially in New York, it was just assumed that you'd marry in, and people who didn't do so were looked at as outliers - not Malcolm Gladwell outliers, outliers like "Why'd you do that?" outliers.  I remember meeting a couple of kids in school who were the products of intermarriages, and, particularly in my ethnically-charged New York environment, they seemed to be sort of homeless.  But now it's rude, in many circles, to even advocate for in-marriage.  And by the way, just so you understand, I'm not for in-marriage - if that's what you call it - because I'm prejudiced against everyone but Jews. (Actually, there's a lot of Jews who think I am especially prejudiced against Jews - you should read my mail). This has nothing to do with outsiders; this is only about self-preservation. We've been around for a long time, and my suspicion is that there's a reason for this.  I'm not diving into theology here, but I have this feeling that peoples don't survive the way the Jews have survived for nothing.  That said, intermarriage has in some ways revitalized the Jewish community - converts, everyone knows, make the best Jews.  And the byproducts of intermarriage - well, all I have to say is Scarlet Johannson. (You didn't know, did you?) Black-Jewish marriage, of course, has brought us Joshua Redman, Lisa Bonet, Lenny Kravitz, Slash, and Sophie Okenedo.  As Adam Sandler would say, not too shabby.  I know a lot of Jews who say that if Jews are going to marry out, they might as well marry African-Americans.  I know this sounds strange (it certainly would have sounded crazy to my grandmother) but at least when you marry an African-American, you're getting someone who already understands Passover.

And so on...