Desi Manifesto Blog: The Forum for South Asian American Men

We’ve run it by other minorities, and they agree. We’ve run it by our white friends, and they will come up with any reason to act like it doesn’t exist. I guess they don’t want the cognitive dissonance of knowing that there are determinations made based on race and that they have an advantage in some regards, even though they don’t think of themselves as racially anything.

Read the ugly truth and see for yourself.

Sonny: btw

my friend’s fiancé

agreed with our theory 100%

every single guy in there

was like “dude you’re full of shit, stop making excuses”

so i said

“ok fine, let’s get the girls’ opinions”

[Blogger: S.I.] We’ve been delinquent. It’s a very busy time in the lives of the Desi Manifesto crew. Of course, if we had more people to blog, there wouldn’t be lag like this, would there? I put the blame squarely on you.

In the last few weeks, I’ve encountered snippets of race-related situations, and even I had a lot of trouble deciding whether I considered them racist or not. So I throw them out to you for some feedback.

LASIK AND EYE OPENING COMMENTS

I recently got LASIK performed at a prominent clinic in LA. Highly ranked doctors, technicians, etc. A few days before the procedure, I underwent an extremely detailed eye exam, including dilating of the pupils.

As the tech tilted my head back to instill the drops, she noticed how easy it was. She said: “Oh, you have such big eyes, it’s so easy to put in the drops. You’re not going to have a problem at all. Not like our Asian patients with those tiny eyes.”

And that’s why, Parul said, Sonny should forget about Indian women. She told him to look outside the race. And if he really wanted an Indian girl, he’d have to go for an open-minded one. “The kind,” she said, “who dates white guys.”

He could barely keep down his beer nuts.

And multiple drinks and smokes later, Sonny and the other Indian professional found themselves alone and face-to-face. Sonny, not exactly inhibited, but not an aggressive playcaller to begin with, allowed her to make the first move. Which she eventually did with the axiom, “It’s true what they say, it takes Indian boys forever to make the first move.” Taking that as a subtle hint, he proceeded to make out with her…

“So, fellas, I have something I wanted to ask,” Mangum eventually offered.

“Uh, okay. Shoot.” It being Vegas, Sonny and Bob hoped he knew they weren’t being literal.

“My girlfriend thinks you’re really cute,” Magnum said to Bob. Girlfriend? Granddaughter? Eh, what’s the difference?…

“So, we want you to have sex with her.”

“Yeah?” Sonny replied with bated breath. He was ready to enlist.