My New Dream Girl
This is the first release in my multi-part Valentine’s Day series. Stay tuned!
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As long as you are alive, it is important to have dreams. My dream girls were always girls I knew. I wanted June and Jessie more than any celebrity girl, past or present. Then Scarlett Johansson walked in front of me and changed everything. But my Scarlett dream is over. Why?
It’s not just that she’s married (my new dream girl is married right now, too). As I’ve said, I’m pretty sure Scarlett knows about this blog, and she hasn’t responded, so that is an effective rejection of my proposals. Although she is stalking me through my television again. I’ve happened upon her randomly on TV three times in the last couple of days. Is Scarlett on your TV this much? And an odd thing happened to me in Las Vegas…But for the moment at least, I have to move on.
In any event, I’ve finally gotten over my disappointment that my Scarlett dream/fantasy will not come true sufficiently to allow the selection of a new dream girl. That girl is…MALIKA ANDREWS!
If you don’t know her, Malika Andrews is an NBA reporter for ABC and ESPN. So what makes Malika my dream girl? Well, first of all, she’s Jewish! My love of Jewish girls has been thoroughly documented on this site, but I never contemplated the possibility of a Jewish girl like Malika. More on that in a while.
On the superficial side, Malika is SMOKING HOT! As I mentioned in my post about her a while back, I place her in the top five most beautiful women in the world. She is supernaturally gorgeous. She shares a trait that most of the girls I’ve really liked have—she has a large number of facial expressions. Malika makes so many adorable little faces.
Generally, Malika takes a hyper-professional approach to her job, but she lets little bits of her personality peek through, and it is a very likable personality. She is clever, funny and on occasion adorably childish. As I mentioned with Scarlett, it seems apparent that her coworkers genuinely like her.
Malika has another quality that correlates highly with girls I like, and is par for the course for a Jewish girl: she’s really good at her job. And I love NBA basketball too, so that is one strong interest I know we have in common. I also take note of the fact that I agree with most of her basketball opinions.
All indications are that Malika has had a very interesting past. An Article about her that I read mentioned that she had some struggles as a teen and she has talked about working in a bunch of out-of-the-way places to jumpstart her career. This appeals to me because my life has had a lot of ups and downs and twists and turns, so I like the idea of a girl who has been through some struggles.
Finally, my new dream girl comes with a big bonus. I am an optimist, but I’m also a realist. And reality is that interracial relationships are still taboo to a lot of people in this society and it shows when you’re in one. Madison Avenue is doing its best to change this by putting an interracial family in just about every television commercial, but in polarized America, there remains a substantial Neanderthal portion of the population that frowns on interracial dating. It draws negative attention, both from strangers in public, as well as from family members and friends of both parties.
In an interracial relationship, both partners have to be into each other enough to tolerate this annoyance. I never would have judged any of the White girls I liked who seemed to like me if race was the reason they wouldn’t pursue the relationship. i just wish they would have had the courage to tell me so. The hassles that come with interracial dating are real and are something I’d rather avoid too. But for the most part, I’m simply not romantically compatible with Black women.
But as a Jewish-Black girl, Malika would be like a Holy Grail. In public, we would just look like a Black couple and wouldn’t attract the attention that interracial couples do. But at the Jewish Community Center, we’d be a Jewish couple, and because she is Jewish, our kids if we had any would be officially Jewish.
Now, I’m not close enough to the Jewish community to know what level of acceptance there is for people like Malika. Do “White Jews” accept her as fully Jewish? This I I don’t know. But if Malika Andrews has abandoned her Jewishness and identifies as Black, then she would probably not be the girl for me, and my dream girl position would remain vacant. Not that she has to go to temple every Saturday, but everything I am saying is predicated on the assumption that she embodies the Jewish girl values that I love so much.
So that’s it. Malika Andrews is the new gold standard. Shoutout to Malika Andrews’ husband. No disrespect, but you know how the world goes. Relationships and marriages begin and end. I wish you guys the best. Why would I want a girl I like to have to go through a divorce?!? But if things don’t work out between you guys, Malika, I’m AVAILABLE! If you got that girl in the first place, you must be one of God’s best friends.
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