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When Black kids have a party, we get new socks
While Josh gets 10 G’s and a new XBox…I make five bucks a week for taking out the trash
I want some religious ceremony cash
If over-the-top bar and bat mitzvah parties confer no other good upon Jewish civilization, at least they inspired this rap video. At 13-years-old, Bobb’e J. Thompson offers the most fascinating treatment of Black/Jewish perceptions on wealth and class since The Green Monster’s last post
on JDUB. For more discussion on Jews, money and wealth, check out the latest issue of New Voices Magazine
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<h/t to jasonryaniscool from twitter>
the st lou jew
06/10/2009 at 4:03 pm |
This is sad. I mean. Its a fun song, and the kid can dance, no doubt. But its one thing when we joke about Bnei Mitzvah being about the party, when it seeps to the mainstream and that is all they see, it just perpetuates stereotypes.
Stereotypes that we know from today’s DC Holocaust Museum shooter tend to grow more twisted an sinister than just bar-mitzvah party money
hYpersemitic
06/11/2009 at 11:25 am |
St Lou Jew,
Agreed. When myths or stereotypes are perpetuated frequently enough, someone’s bound to get enraged by them and snap.
I’m curious to find out who produced the video, and (not to perpetuate a stereotype here) to hear about their personal encounters with Judaism/Bar and Bat Mitzvahs. Black-Jewish relations have been a hot topic in recent years, and this might be another good starting point to re-examine them.