The Answer Man Drops A Pop Quiz On Bippity (note: not a single comment about "most people")
1.) Have you ever dated outside your race?
Touched every continent except for Antartica(yes even Australia). Serious relationships, twice. My father is black. My mother is half black and half Native American. My step grandmother is Asian, my favorite aunt is hispanic. My parents divorced and my mother married a man from Kenya. My father married a crazy Korean lady who has ruined all good feelings I had for Asians
. My father had 12 siblings. Our family reunion is peppered with people from every race on the planet. My wife is half Romanian and half Egyptian. Some people think she's black and some think she's white. Most don't know what she is. Some at our reunions hate her and want her out of the family and some have adopted her as their own daughter. I met her on the basketball court like I've met every other significant other that I grew close with. It seems that basketball transcends all the other unimportant relationship minutia.
2.) If so, do you know much of that that decision was based on cultural curiousity or Jungle Fever?
are you asking on my part or her part. On my part I met someone who had similar interests as me, I began to like her based on that. I was always open to dating anyone and everyone and never felt the need to consciously make any dating decisions based on superficial criteria, other than the size of her breasts and can she put the ball in the basket. Now, of course I love my mother to death so I always pictured marrying someone who looked and acted like her(in a manner of speaking of course. I did not want to date my mother). But I was also very open to meeting someone who wasn't like her as well. In the end of course some/most(sorry I know you despise these words) of my dating of other races was due to curiosity. I dated an Asian woman once simply because I never had before and the opportunity was there. But when it came to choosing a life mate, race was less of a factor.
3.) How much did he/she change your preconceived notion of a relationship?
Don't understand the question
4.) Did he/she open, close or blow your mind?
Every person that I meet and have a deep intimate relationship has helped to open my mind. If you are talking about race, then some of my preconceived notions were shattered and destroyed. Some where strengthened(whether true or untrue, some were strengthened. I have no shame in admitting that)
5.) If he/she opened your mind, was it temporary or permanent?
Of course permanent. How can your mind be opened temporarily?
6.) Did you eliminate all your preconceived notions?
As I mentioned above, which you obviously read, it is impossible to eliminate all preconceived notions.
9.) Was he/she a Knicks fan?
No, Celtics
10.) If not, did you leave them immediately and go watch the game?
No woman has ever come between me and the Knicks.
What is the point behind all this questioning?
4/3/2009 5:44 PM