Oh, sure. He is kind of startled to hear their first anti semitic derogatory epithets coming out of the mouths of black teenagers. And he, from what do you know, he's in a very liberal family, big believers in civil rights, very proud of the progress America is making in the 60s and 70s on the on the on the civil rights front. And he kind of takes it for granted that Jews and blacks are together, their allies, and they have common cause. And so he's particularly shocked to hear black kids saying derogatory things about Jews. And later there's a black character who isn't saying anything anti semitic, but who add him at first feel somewhat threatened by, and they have kind of a dance that goes on throughout the course of the of the novel, where he tries to kind of understand what this kid is going through. I don't want to give him give him any spoilers here. But there is a sense of the dynamics that are going on politically, are affecting these kids in ways they can't quite see. I mean, there's other boys a little bit older a couple of years older than than Adam, but both of them are the children of teachers. Adams parents are a teacher at a school principal. And 1970 was two years after a very bitter teacher strike in New York City, which in a certain level ended up pitting the Jewish community against African American community in the city, because the strike was about the desire by activists in some predominantly African American communities to have more control over their schools. And to have more control over choosing the principal choosing the teachers and the teachers, the public school system, had a very high percentage of Jewish teachers and the United Federation of Teachers in New York, the teachers union was was also led by Albert Shanker was kind of a mythical figure who was Jewish, and had a lot of Jews who were at the head of that, and Jews kind of get into the teaching profession. After World War Two, partly through the GI Bill, it was a profession that was open to Jews, there was a way to move up is solidly into the middle class. And a lot of Jews followed suit. So I so I had Adams parents, as characters both be in that educational world, and still kind of dealing with the reverberations of that teacher strike, even though it was two years before. And one of the things that I discovered more in research, and I lived through it as a kid, but as a kid, I just remembered that there was a strike, we didn't have school for weeks and weeks and weeks. And we were not complaining about that we still in Hebrew school, so it's middle of the day, that we were free the rest of the day. But we you know, so I wasn't really aware of this as as a kid. And my parents were not educators. This is not based on my life. But but this is the, what I discovered was that that was considered one of the turning points in the breakdown of the Jewish Black Alliance that teachers strike, because it kind of, and again, it's still debated, I think, till today about whether it was the communities are being manipulated, set one against the other, or that was a way to try to gather support or to play off fears, playoff fears of, of the Jews in the teachers union, that they were going to be losing their jobs, or to pit these communities, who were both minority communities trying to establish themselves in New York and trying to gain more influence and power at that time, so that they would not threaten other communities that already had more control. So so it's a complicated time. And there were a lot of unpleasant incidents that happened at that time, that had reverberations for many years afterwards. So I touch on those things. I mean, again, it's not a, it's not a sociology book, it's not a history book. So those things are kind of happening in the background. And you see how it's impacting the kids. And it's impacting when things of the hear things that adults are saying that they don't completely understand. But they're also it shows some of the fears and suspicions that community had of each other. The Jews, American Jews at the time, I think, you know, I would say that, that when I was growing up, and Adam is essentially the age I was, I was dragging my personal experience for what was happening in that period in that sense. That was really the first generation that felt completely secure in America completely accepted. I mean, I remember as a kid, I felt utterly American and proud of that, and very proud of being Jewish, and I didn't see any conflict there. And when my parents would tell me to be at my best behavior, and I was in public, to make sure that I never did anything that would give us a bad name or a bad image. If I was in front of non Jews. I thought they were paranoid. You know, I thought, well, what are they talking about? We're all the same. We're all just here together. And that was certainly something their generation didn't feel to me. My grandparents generation immigrants generation didn't feel that at all. So I think we felt very secure and again, because I was in public school, I wasn't in Jewish Day School. So I was very much mixing with everybody all the time. You know, we felt just, we were all we were all in this boat together. We were all we were all part of things. So I think Adam gets a little bit blindsided when he first encounters anti semitism at all. And then coming from the black community particularly catches him off guard. But you know, there was in the Jewish community, certain prejudices, and there were certainly racism as well, even though there was liberal ideals, and, you know, sometimes different parts of the community, sometimes different parts of the same person. So, you know, I tried to, I tried to address that, again, somewhat lightly. But that's, that's happening as well. And Adams got to contend with suspicions he hears from other people, sometimes from Jews, sometimes some sort of from other African Americans who are themselves nervous about different people in their own community. And he's trying to juggle and navigate all that, you know, I think that age, you know, when you're an adolescent, and then through your teen years, you're trying to put it together, you're trying to figure out the adult world, that's just one part of the adult world, that's particularly confusing. But it's in a bigger, you know, dynamic that's going on for him in the course of the book is the book is a comedy. And part of part of what creates that comedy. Besides that adolescence, when you're not living through it is actually very funny time. You know, if you look back on it, but but, but he's also tried to figure out how does he, how does he stand out and blend in at the same time, because as a kid, you want to do both, you want to be just like everybody else, but you also want to be special? So how do you do that? Absolutely. You know, and being on stage, whether it's in an acting class, or in the on the Bema, in your synagogue, you sure are ways that you stand out while you're in the spotlight. And then you can fall back afterwards and blend in with all the crowd with your friends. And he's trying to figure that out. And he has a number of different mentors in the book. The cantor is one of them, his older brother was another, his parents, his acting teacher, they're all kind of mentor figures. But they're all kind of glomming on to a different aspect of Adam. You know, some of them are seeing Adam as a younger version of themselves. And some of them are seeing Adam as a kid is very different than themselves. And there's confusion there as well. Because sometimes the adults are having their own experience, and the kid doesn't realize what's going on for them. But as a kid, you know, especially Adams, a bright kid, he's a good kid, he's used to doing well in school is used to getting a lot of positive reinforcement. He's trying to keep everybody happy. But he's also trying to figure out what it takes to keep them all satisfied. What what do all these adults want for them? And what does he have to do both to keep them happy, but also to be contented himself. And sometimes there's a conflict between what the adults want, and what he wants. And he has to figure out how to navigate that as well.