My nephew Jamal is a hotheaded young buck. Acts crazy, talks crazy. Last week he was on a rant about how happy he was that eight years of B.O. (the 'Big Oriole' he says) in the White House would soon be over. OK, I try to avoid politics, although sometimes it finds me ... Just for the hell of it I sometimes like to get Jamal's goat: I tell him how much I admire Faulkner's literary skills, and wait for him to explode in a Black Power fireworks display. (Truth be told, old Bill understood a shit load more about being black than Eldridge Cleaver ever did ...)
So I was kind of pleased when I ran into Jamal in the park with a fine new girl. Melody Marie Mason. (Names have been changed to protect the guilty, but the alias captures her attitude perfectly.)
Melody was a 19 year old college student living in Reston with her parents. Second generation American from her Vietnamese mother, third generation American from her Chinese father; Melody herself, as the name she preferred to use suggests, was as all-American as Hawaiian pizza. If she knew anything about any Asian culture, it was probably as a result of a wiki search for a middle school class project. Physically, American nutrition and health care had worked with her hybrid ancestry to produce one fine piece of ass. About 5'6" tall she had real curves,- not the immature, starved body so many Asian girls have. She liked to wear hip-hugging jeans and short tops that revealed a nice belly with just a hint of curve. Her complexion was light tan and just flawless. Her eyes were a liquid brown that caught the light and always seemed to be laughing. Her full shoulder length black hair gleamed: pleasant to imagine Melody in her jammies sitting in front of a bedroom mirror doing her 100 nightly brush strokes.
I was expecting Jamal to have gotten Melody through her initiation into the sorority of nigger loving girls in record time.