The state's policy of separate but equal was really about keeping the black man down.

Just hope, Eric continues, that he's not tempting fate's dickishly ironic sense of humor.

Such a suggestion—even a timid one in her own head—would have been met with a brimful of scorn.

But if the band’s three sold-out shows this week at the Bowery Ballroom are any indication, it is still basking in the microfame bestowed over the last year by zealous bloggers.