why can't you just be americans?
I think this woman wins the Dumbass of the Day award.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/6365320.html#none
A North Texas legislator during House testimony on voter identification legislation said Asian-descent voters should adopt names that are “easier for Americans to deal with.”
SAY WHAT?
“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 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. That is some stunning ign'ance right there. Three things, you dumb broad.
1. Asians don't have a monopoly on difficult names. Have you met my Nana and Grandpa DeBolske?
2. Wading through the Rosetta Stone series and learning seven spoken dialects of Chinese is not needed to look up someone's name in a book using Roman characters.
3. It's not "you and your citizens." If someone is eligible to vote, they're American citizens. You might not want to learn how to pronounce their names, (or read the Constitution) but if they're voting, they're just as "American" as you and me and everyone else that votes.
Speaking of Asian voters.. guess who never has to worry about winning Asian voters ever again?
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/6365320.html#none
A North Texas legislator during House testimony on voter identification legislation said Asian-descent voters should adopt names that are “easier for Americans to deal with.”
SAY WHAT?
“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 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. That is some stunning ign'ance right there. Three things, you dumb broad.
1. Asians don't have a monopoly on difficult names. Have you met my Nana and Grandpa DeBolske?
2. Wading through the Rosetta Stone series and learning seven spoken dialects of Chinese is not needed to look up someone's name in a book using Roman characters.
3. It's not "you and your citizens." If someone is eligible to vote, they're American citizens. You might not want to learn how to pronounce their names, (or read the Constitution) but if they're voting, they're just as "American" as you and me and everyone else that votes.
Speaking of Asian voters.. guess who never has to worry about winning Asian voters ever again?