My Multiracial Experience: Drink Selection
February 17, 2008 | 6:26 pmTimeline: Sometime during my senior year in high school
I had the good fortune of almost always going to schools that were racially/ethnically mixed. My high school was a beautiful mosaic of black, white, asian, middle eastern, white trash, dumb-ass, and hairspray.
My AP English class was a perfect microcosm of the greater whole. In addition to our normal schoolwork, we had been drafted into managing the school’s literary journal. At the beginning of one such journal meeting, we each grabbed a carbonated beverage and sat down at a long table. I sat at one of the ends.
At one point, someone pointed that all the white & asian kids had picked Coke, while all the black kids had picked Sprite. They all found this rather interesting and amusing. Then, all at once, they looked down the table at me. “What are you drinking, FUBB?”
“Dr. Pepper” ^_^
On a future MME episode, watch Jay trying to convince an Egyptian that he’s not a fellow countryman…
