Grammy-nominated singer and Heidi Klum beau Seal laments the negative effects of rap culture on the black community, saying that a difficult history is no excuse for violence and objectifying women:
“It’s sad because we’re damaging our own. Like, in different cultures, you would never see that…Take for example the Jewish culture. They’ve been persecuted just like the black people, right? But you never see them eating their own. They don’t. But we will.”
Oy, Seal baby, we wish it were so. Jews may not carry guns and put our women in rhinestone bikinis, but we know from experience that there’s plenty of divisiveness among us. But instead of gettin’ all down about it, we’re wondering what the outcome of Jewish rap culture (link goes to 50 Shekel’s official site) might be: Drive-by lulav shakings? Gang-banging based on really nasty Yiddish epithets? Tefillin and attachable payes for sale at Urban Outfitters?