nccotus

you have it right there. That was one of them. “We are receptacles for men’s semen.” That was courtesy of my college roommates. Another from her: “Military intelligence is an oxymoron.” I’ve brought that out before for how ugly it is. At the time I took it in for the cleverness. Like the one about the nun and the priest who went golfing; and the one about the Greek and the Jew and the Italian; and the one from the Cher film about the naming of the Indians…I took all of these in for the cleverness. It was a wart-mole person thing. I will not tell the whole jokes, I have grown up since then. That lesion is off of my face. I have normally sensitive feelings. It has taken four years to get there. And the loss of my brother and mother.

so, in a desperate Thanksgiving moment in 2021 following my mother’s death, I brought out the nasty joke about the Jews and the VW and the ash tray. It has turned into a major worldwide crisis of anti-Semitic paranoia because my father put it out there to get me in trouble because I had done some thing to seriously embarrass him that night. It still WAS NOT the right way to handle it. It was like the crisis in Tampa when somebody at a Black function thought that a server spit in the punch bowl and everyone was upset for weeks and there was no way to clear it up.

I have been under the gun ever since. That is three years. Feels like forever. Most of my closest associations have been Jewish although I married a Catholic Anglican and got away from those ties and became insensitive to those feelings and issues. Although I have generally attested that I am Jewish myself by character although not by creed, through matrilineal descent.

And I am so sorry for hurting my close friends from the past as well as others generally for me being the one thought to put that out there. Which was not the case. But, as I said, there was no way to clear it up. At the time. I am Jewish myself for the Love of God!!!