No Dad...I'm Jewish...

[Misty_Morning]

I just posted on another thread and it got me to thinking.

I remember when my family returned to the south during my early teenage years.

My father and I were traveling down the road and approached an intersection.

The KKK was out and about collecting donations (This was the mid 70's in Misssissppi).

As we approached the intersection, I asked my Dad to roll up his window and ignore them.

He didn't do so, he said he didn't want to agrivate them.

Not only did he take their "literature" but he also handed them a buck.

This upset me to no end.

So, as we were driving down the road...I actually began to read thier BS.

In it was what you may think....the blacks are the reason for unemployment...the Jews are the reason for high "just about everything else"....blah blah blah.....


So I am reading this to him and I am becoming extremely upset.

And I ask him...How could you give them money and actually take this piece of hatred?

Do you believe this?

Do you hate me too?

He asked why would I hate you?

I said...Because I am Jewish.

He replied...You're not Jewish...you're a baptist...



My answer...No Dad...remember...I am Jewish........

and I looked out the window...and for the next 20 or so minutes no words were said...and I tried to pretend I wasn't crying.

 

[dr_mabeuse]

Well what are you? Jewish or Baptist?

 

[Fallenfromgrace]

Well what are you? Jewish or Baptist?

Ethnic Jew as her mother was Jewish, raised in her father's religion- Baptist.

 

[Svenskaflicka]

"Hello, I come from the year 2008...."

 

[Vermilion]

Ethnic Jew as her mother was Jewish, raised in her father's religion- Baptist.

If her mum was Jewish, then she's Jewish - it goes down the maternal line. It's why I'm good old C of E and my dad's family regard me with some suspicion as that strange Shiksa (sp?) offspring of his!
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[Roxanne Appleby]

So from which side did she get her sense of humor?





(Just pretending to talk "behind your back," MM.
for your story, too.)

 

[SeaCat]

LOLOLOL

Growing up my father had this ability to stretch the money. As us kids put it he would make old Abe Scream before he spent a penny. Us kids being kids we often jokingly told him he had to be part Jewish. (He was raised Catholic, my mother was raised Protestant, us kids were raised as free thinkers.)

My mother was even better at stretching a penny. Came from growing up in Post War Germany.

Then my father started to do some Geneology. He started with his family then worked on my mothers family.

Meanwhile we moved to Germany and I hooked up with Mikki. (Yes she was Jewish, so sue us.) I lost Mikki then after a while moved back to the United States.

Several years later my father came up to me with a troubled look on his face. He told me he had finally finished the Family Tree and wanted to talk with me about it. He informed me he was a bit nervous about how I would respond to what he had found. Okay so I was thinking he had found a murderer or a Traitor in the tree. Nope, no such luck.

Sure he had found a couple of Mercenaries and more than a couple of playboys but that didn't bother him. No what was worrying him was the other thing he had found. You see my family on both sides was Jewish. Oh me oh my. No wonder my Grandmother was so tense, she was trying to hide the family shame.

I looked at my father and asked him why he thought I would be upset by this. He thought about it for a minute then he started laughing. Of course I wouldn't care. I had even gone so far as to marry a nice Jewish Girl so why should I give a flying Luigi?

Now it's too funny when we get together. My parents and I will be talking when we disagree about something. Then one or the other of them accuse me of being a Jew and I ask them where I get it from. Of course that gets all of us going.

I really get my brother going when I tell him Jesus was a good Jewish Boy. Man does he hate that.

Cat

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

I really get my brother going when I tell him Jesus was a good Jewish Boy. Man does he hate that.

Cat

In the immortal words of Kinky Friedman, "They don't make Jews, like Jesus anymore."

MM, my kids are in the same boat as you. Their nice Jewish mother from Queens married a backsliding Baptist. But don't be so down on your father. While my instinct would have been to tell the sheet-heads to fuck off, I might have done the same thing he did with my daughter in the car.

Rumple Foreskin

 

[SweetWitch]

Back in the day, they came with white sheets. They came with bibles and self-righteousness. Today they come with shaved heads and signs tattooed on their bodies. They hold up "literature" and "teach" about "purety of blood".

They are the embodiment of hatred and evil. They see only what's on the surface and judge all by it. They don't see the beauty or the frailty that is the human condition. They don't know the joy of acceptance or knowledge. These people live by a strict tradition.

It's called "ignorance".

 

[DesertPirate]

Back in the day, they came with white sheets. They came with bibles and self-righteousness. Today they come with shaved heads and signs tattooed on their bodies. They hold up "literature" and "teach" about "purety of blood".

They are the embodiment of hatred and evil. They see only what's on the surface and judge all by it. They don't see the beauty or the frailty that is the human condition. They don't know the joy of acceptance or knowledge. These people live by a strict tradition.

It's called "ignorance".

*Standing Ovation*
Best description I've seen yet!
There are a few in this area, they seem to get ignored or even laughed at these days.
Wish it had always been that way