He sounded very stressed he said that we could no longer stay with him because his mother had been recently mugged by a black man and would not stand to have a black man in the house. This friend was Mexican-American and came from a middle-class family.Īs we approached Chicago, I called him from a pay phone (this was pre-cell phone era) to let him know when we were arriving. I had asked a friend who lived in Chicago if we could crash with his family. We were driving cross-country one summer with two other friends, staying with whomever we could to save money. I am Asian-American, and my college (and post-college) boyfriend was (and still is, I guess) half black and half white. "His mother had been recently mugged by a black man." Love their noses too." I quickly chugged the rest of my beer so the date could be over.Ģ.
I asked him what he likes about Jewish guys and the answer, of course, didn't surprise me: "Oh, it's their beards for sure. He started singing and I envisioned my Hebrew school teacher Mr. One time I memorized a whole Hebrew pop song just to impress this Israeli guy," he said to me with eyes the size of my grandma's matzoh balls. "Oh, I have a huge thing for Jewish guys. I'm one of those young chosen people who qualify as "Jew-ish" at best. I laughed at his question because I hadn't even said that I was Jewish yet, and I definitely didn't speak Hebrew. He gave me polite answers and told me, a white boy from New York, that I should really make it over to Asia at some point. I asked him careful questions about his years in the service and his home country. Now we were on a first date because I am a crazy narcissist. He had told me that watching my videos made him happy and miss America.
"Oh, I have a huge thing for Jewish guys."Īcross the table from me was a South Korean guy who had watched videos of me eating KFC during his time serving for his home country's national military.