I’ve Owned a Mirror My Whole Life, Thanksby Edmund J. Janas, II Really, the following essay could have multiple titles, but I’m told two is my limit. Hmm, I’ll have several, thank you! “Wait, Am I Black Today? A Memoir in Passing”or“If I’m Black, Why Does Everyone Think I’m Jewish?”or“The Only Thing I’m Passing Is Judgment”or“Black, Polish, and Confused: A User’s Guide”or“You Scare Me—And Other Compliments”or“Who Do I Pass For This Week?” I figure if I can have several ethnicities i can have several titles to the same essay Among my father’s Jewish broker and his family, I was seen as Polish/white. Help came naturally, even with talk of taking my company public in the late ’90s. Later in life, when our money took flight—partly from my overextending to take care of everyone, even...