Anybody want to be cathartic and open themselves up to scorn and ridicule?
When I was a freshman in college I lived next door to this really sweet girl named Jennifer. She was half-Asian. Cool, intelligent, funny. We became friends really quick.
So we were having a party, lots of booze and drugs floating around, and some of my friends from back home were in attendance. We were outside on our front stoop hanging out and one of my friends, loaded out of his god damn mind, came outside and looked Jennifer straight in her eyes and put his face up close to her and says "Ching Chong Hong Wa!" in one of those stereotypical, offensive Asian impressions.
And I laughed. I laughed hard. She ran off in tears and never spoke to me again. Would never accept the countless apologies I offered and when I'd see her on campus she'd make a beeline away from me. To this day I still try to rationalize why I laughed; trying to chalk it up to the total and utter randomness of the moment/situation but that just sounds like bullshit all these years later.
When I was a freshman in college I lived next door to this really sweet girl named Jennifer. She was half-Asian. Cool, intelligent, funny. We became friends really quick.
So we were having a party, lots of booze and drugs floating around, and some of my friends from back home were in attendance. We were outside on our front stoop hanging out and one of my friends, loaded out of his god damn mind, came outside and looked Jennifer straight in her eyes and put his face up close to her and says "Ching Chong Hong Wa!" in one of those stereotypical, offensive Asian impressions.
And I laughed. I laughed hard. She ran off in tears and never spoke to me again. Would never accept the countless apologies I offered and when I'd see her on campus she'd make a beeline away from me. To this day I still try to rationalize why I laughed; trying to chalk it up to the total and utter randomness of the moment/situation but that just sounds like bullshit all these years later.








