But you must squabble some more for us later, it's time for our buppies now.

Most are black, young urban professionals - buppies - but there are white characters, too.

"I had heard about it, but I looked inside and said, 'Too many yuppies and buppies for my taste.

The attitude of the playwright is both cynical and recriminatory: this is how the black revolution ends, not with a bang, but with "buppies."

But the site's creators, who use the slogan "Bringing black America together in cyberspace," are mindful of what the first "p" in buppies stands for.

And even funnier are the incidental routines - comic negotiations of casual racism and class tensions between buppies and their parents.

Today, Logan Circle is DC's it multicolor neighborhood, home to the trendiest of yuppies and buppies.

Forget every Sunday-newspaper trend story you've ever read about gentrification, or about harried metropolitans fleeing to small towns, or about good-hearted buppies returning to the 'hood.

Many long-time residents and business owners expressed the concern that they would be priced out by newcomers whom they disparagingly characterize as "yuppies and buppies (black urban professionals)".

WWW.BUPPIE.COM THIS site aimed at "buppies" - black urban professionals - is not as snooty as it sounds.

Nelson George, author of "Buppies, B-Boys, Baps & Boho's: Notes on Post-Soul Culture," suggested that the rock 'n' roll aesthetic had been a major deterrent.

His work still infuses everything from sociological studies to movies like Spike Lee's "School Daze" and "Jungle Fever," with their mordant commentary on the post-1970's generation of buppies and wannabees.

It should surprise no one, then, that many young upwardly mobile blacks - sometimes called buppies (a label rejected by some because it connotes intraracial stratification) - choose to spend happy hour with other blacks.

H Map Crème's upscale soul attracts a multi-culti crowd and is particularly popular with buppies (black yuppies), who enjoy a stick-to-your-ribs menu served in a slick dining room of soft beiges and buffed metal.

"We joke about it, but this has become the land of the buppies - black urban professionals," said Ibrahim Abdul-Matin, a 25-year-old whose grandfather came to Fort Greene as an Army lieutenant in World War II.

Ms. Briscoe, who has sold over a million copies of her two novels about the romantic travails of buppies, or black urban professionals, has ventured into her past and into slavery for her new book, "A Long Way From Home," released last month.

Within the black community, ideologues and intellectuals of every stripe - cultural nationalists and integrationists, buppies and revolutionaries, Five Percenters and Baptist ministers alike - wondered aloud about Mr. Lee's right to portray the complex life of Malcolm X for the big screen.

IT'S 8 o'clock on a Friday night and the buppies are out in force on Avenue A. With their power suits and wire-rim glasses, Halle Berry haircuts and designer dresses, these men and women are a peculiar sight on the Lower East Side.