And I'm sorry, but when would this ever be a LOL moment?
Sorry, sometimes I type before I think :/ The article was dated 2009.
It's not funny. My dad is Vietnamese but goes by John, instead of his given name Thanh. As a kid, his dad thought it was just easier, especially after his mom died (grandpa was Caucasian, was in the military and brought my dad and grandma to the US in the 70s).
Sorry again. Was just a knee jerk post.
Hmm. Weird. I thought it was today. I saw it in my Facebook feed.
See, the problem with Texas is that it is so gerrymandered. They end up with these crazy-Republican districts that elect nutjobs, who then get away with saying things like this.
I cannot wait until the year when white voters are no longer the majority in Texas. There will be a reckoning.
Well, I get that the woman's ignorance and racism is the problem. But a district that is rigged to be 70% Republican will never need to elect a moderate. Crazies like this get elected and then they have a voice.
Although I see Betty here is no longer in office, so now she's only embarrassing her grandchildren at Thanksgiving.
I'm white and married to a Korean and took his last name. It confuses the shit out of people. I get comments daily. My first name can also be a last name, so people switch both names around.
When my husbands parents immigrated to the US in 1970, they were given new "American" first names. They are awful names. No rhyme or reason to how they were chosen. I'm convinced the people at immigration were just assholes.
“Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes.”
― William Gibson
If little Makenzi or little Gryace or little whatever odd ball American spelling can grow up to vote, then why can't anyone else with a name that isn't "easy"? If this person hasn't noticed, Americans tend to name their kids all sorts of things with extra letters that are hard to pronounce.
What about people with Russian names? Or Polish names? Or German names? Why are they picking on Asians? All of those other names are hard to pronounce and spell but people do it every day.
I just had to deal with the most insanely long Polish name today in a meeting. Can we add Poles to this bill?
We have a Polish last name. At some point the pronunciation was Americanized. I still have to spell it for everyone but it sounds closer to how it looks.
Granted, I actually can't pronounce my Thai friend's name. She tried to teach me to say it, but it was impossible for me. Other names I can't pronounce? My Polish coworker, and hell, I can't pronounce my own Hungarian last name properly.
Brown later told Ko: “Can’t you see that this is something that would make it a lot easier for you and the people who are poll workers if you could adopt a name just for identification purposes that’s easier for Americans to deal with?”
Wow. So people of Asian descent cannot be Americans? What a gross, ignorant woman.