Blunt, are you Jewish?
May. 4th, 2009 12:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
insixeighttimeAs I write my paper on Jewish identity, I turn to my friend Blunt at the table with me. Blunt is one of the few African American acting majors. I asked him a question I thought I knew the answer to.
Me: Blunt! You're not Jewish, right?
But Blunt, being Blunt and an acting major, answered the question as only he could:
Blunt: I’m not Jewish… well, at least I don’t think so. After about five generations, we don’t know what happened. But I am an eighth white, we don’t know what eighth. My grandfather had blue eyes. Which we didn’t notice till he was seventy-six - no, eighty six. And we didn’t notice till my brother’s Italian girlfriend pointed it out.
True story.
Me: Blunt! You're not Jewish, right?
But Blunt, being Blunt and an acting major, answered the question as only he could:
Blunt: I’m not Jewish… well, at least I don’t think so. After about five generations, we don’t know what happened. But I am an eighth white, we don’t know what eighth. My grandfather had blue eyes. Which we didn’t notice till he was seventy-six - no, eighty six. And we didn’t notice till my brother’s Italian girlfriend pointed it out.
True story.
