Black_is_My_Favorite_Color

Black is My Favorite Color In the short story, the main character, Nat Lime, loves to being with black people, but they do not love to be around him. All of his life he has lived in a predominately black neighborhood and he loves to be around black people. The only problem is that he is a white Jew and in the 1960’s blacks could not trust any white men. He has spent his entire life trying to prove to people that he is not the average Jew and does not consider himself to be different from anyone. In the story he interacts with several different blacks that turn him away and eventually cause him to feel pain physically and emotionally. Nat Lime fails with black people socially, politically, economically, religiously, and psychologically; it just his faith. Nat Lime as a huge problem socially more then any other characteristics, with blacks. Since Mr. Lime is the minority in the neighborhood, he tries extra hard to fit in. He goes to the block parties they have every so often and even tries to be friends with some of the children his age. Buster is one of the black, favorite, color, lime, people, nat, life, blacks, white, problem, one, just, even, woman, make, psychologically, love, friends, being, because, trying, tries, out, ornita, mrs, money, men, jew, himself, harris, hard, buster, believe, trust, tried, socially, seen, same, person, mr, movies, mean, marry, jews, friendship, faced, different, children, cause, buy, bothered, anyone