Texas lawmaker: Asians should change their names to make them ‘easier for Americans to deal with.’
On Tuesday, State Rep. Betty Brown (R) caused a firestorm during House testimony on voter identification legislation when she said that Asian-Americans should change their names because they’re too hard to pronounce:
“Rather than everyone here having to learn Chinese — I understand it’s a rather difficult language — do you think that it would behoove you and your citizens to adopt a name that we could deal with more readily here?” Brown said.
Brown later told [Organization of Chinese Americans representative Ramey] 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?”
Yesterday, Brown continued to resist calls to apologize. Her spokesman said that Democrats “want this to just be about race.”
Fuck this old ass 씨발년아! As if Asian Americans are the only group whose names are difficult to pronounce. First off, Chinese Americans surnames are usually pretty easy so she sounds extra ignorant. How can she not say this is about race? Norse names , African names and slavic names are pretty hard for man Joe Six Pack American to pronounce but she only talks about Asians.
Here’s the video-
FUCK THAT BITCH.
N’jaila Rhee
( fuck you if you can’t pronounce it)
Man, this makes me think about my high school days. My high school was predominantly chinese and black with smaller numbers of white and hispanic people, as well as a notable amount of filipino asians. Sometimes in class when the teacher would call so and so on the roll call and there were definitely times the teacher was like, Um? I don't know how to pronounce this … (and then the teacher would spell the name out). I felt like those times were really awkward and tense. And always the name the teacher didn't know how to say was a chinese name. I'm not kidding. I had this one history teacher … omg he made me so mad! Everyday he was spewing out garbage about asians and talking with a mock chinese accent. It made me so pissed. If I knew better I would have reported him to the Dean's Office (and get his ass fired!) but I didn't. Instead I seethed all the way through his stupid class.
I'm just appalled this woman here has the nerve to say chinese people should just all take american sounding names. Screw her! She's so ignorant. And I have a fair point to make. While to people like her the name Wei Xuan Huang sounds like nothing more than a bunch of weird sounding words jumbled up together and perhaps the only thing she can clearly pronounce is Huang without being doubtful of the pronounciation; to me, and to all chinese speaking people out there this is our language. Wei Xuan has no meaning to her but it does to us. Please, woman! All chinese people taking on American names will not change anything. On my birth certificate I have an english name and I've used that name for my entire life. But did that stop people from being prejudice toward me? Hell no! I can't tell you how many times I got ching-chang-chong-ed in junior high school and high school. How many times people assumed I was some genius or something just cause I was asian and making dumb ass comments like, When did you come to the U.S.? (They didn't even ask me before assuming I was a foreigner! Hello! I was born in NY!!) My point is no matter if the name i use is a american or chinese name people will still look at me as chinese. I was still treated like a foreigner by ppl at school even though I was born here … what difference does a name change do? America is supposed to be a country for everyone. She says having American names for chinese people will make it easier for americans but what does she know?? I suggest she go educate herself first before making such a ridiculous statement. she's never been in the shoes of an asian or a person from another culture besides American culture … god this makes me pissed ..
Man, this makes me think about my high school days. My high school was predominantly chinese and black with smaller numbers of white and hispanic people, as well as a notable amount of filipino asians. Sometimes in class when the teacher would call so and so on the roll call and there were definitely times the teacher was like, Um? I don't know how to pronounce this … (and then the teacher would spell the name out). I felt like those times were really awkward and tense. And always the name the teacher didn't know how to say was a chinese name. I'm not kidding. I had this one history teacher … omg he made me so mad! Everyday he was spewing out garbage about asians and talking with a mock chinese accent. It made me so pissed. If I knew better I would have reported him to the Dean's Office (and get his ass fired!) but I didn't. Instead I seethed all the way through his stupid class. I'm just appalled this woman here has the nerve to say chinese people should just all take american sounding names. Screw her! She's so ignorant. And I have a fair point to make. While to people like her the name Wei Xuan Huang sounds like nothing more than a bunch of weird sounding words jumbled up together and perhaps the only thing she can clearly pronounce is Huang without being doubtful of the pronounciation; to me, and to all chinese speaking people out there this is our language. Wei Xuan has no meaning to her but it does to us. Please, woman! All chinese people taking on American names will not change anything. On my birth certificate I have an english name and I've used that name for my entire life. But did that stop people from being prejudice toward me? Hell no! I can't tell you how many times I got ching-chang-chong-ed in junior high school and high school. How many times people assumed I was some genius or something just cause I was asian and making dumb ass comments like, When did you come to the U.S.? (They didn't even ask me before assuming I was a foreigner! Hello! I was born in NY!!) My point is no matter if the name i use is a american or chinese name people will still look at me as chinese. I was still treated like a foreigner by ppl at school even though I was born here … what difference does a name change do? America is supposed to be a country for everyone. She says having American names for chinese people will make it easier for americans but what does she know?? I suggest she go educate herself first before making such a ridiculous statement. she's never been in the shoes of an asian or a person from another culture besides American culture … god this makes me pissed ..
I would love to know what you think about my post Is This Racist?. It is also has a YouTube video that made me mad when I first heard it.
I would love to know what you think about my post Is This Racist?. It is also has a YouTube video that made me mad when I first heard it.