Black Israelites, NYC 1990's
Back when I worked all around NYC, I used to regularly encounter a strange spectacle - the so-called "Black Israelites". They would set up in midtown Manhattan, usually on 7th avenue, in the 40's. There would be a posse of 6-10 surly schvuggers, and a mic man flapping his livers through a PA system. How the city allowed this to go on every day, I'll never figure out. Two NYC cops would have to stand there for hours. You'd go by, hear their ridiculous provocations of passersby, and forget that noise forthwith. But one day, I was walking by, and their pitch monkey starts announcing "All white men, are faggots". Now, I'm the only white man there, other than one of the cops. So I take a step towards him, and he says it again. I walk right up on him, point, and say "Only a nigger faggot wears those leather pants, you fucking faggot nigger" ! His posse erupted in howls of laughter, with the cops following suit. Some Asian ladies got a kick out of it as well. Liver lip was crushed by this turn of events. Didn't hear a peep out of him as I exited the scene.
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