TX Rep. Brown (R): Asians should change their names 2make them ‘easier for Americans to deal with.’

[Ian David]

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.”




More:
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/04/09/brown-asian-names/

[cali]

1. On the Bachman Stupidity Scale, this puker measures a 10.

[marmar]

2. They need to sound more 'Murkan......

:crazy:

[blogslut]

3. Yowsers!

Betty Brown is a brazen bigot.

[DCKit]

17. OW!!! My tongue!

Welcome to the 1950's Betty.

[BlooInBloo]

4. Was wondering when this would get posted. Heh.

[LynnTheDem]

5. "you and your citizens" ...AMERICAN citizens.

But it's "not about race!" :eyes:

[closeupready]

6. What a complete airhead she is.

:eyes:

[guitar man]

7. let me get this straight

People should change their names because Betty Brown and her inbred followers are too stupid and lazy to take the time and interest to learn anything about something besides their own backward, narrow culture.

Check.

:eyes:

[Ian David]

9. We should buy her a copy of "The Flower Drum Song" or something.

Flower Drum Song (film)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Flower Drum Song is a 1961 Academy Award nominated film adaptation of the 1958 Broadway musical play Flower Drum Song, written by composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist/librettist Oscar Hammerstein II. The film and stage play were based on the 1957 novel of the same name by Chinese American author C.Y. Lee. The movie was unusual in featuring nearly all Asian American cast members (one of the few speaking Caucasian parts being a mugger), including dancers, though two of the singing voices were not by Asian talent. Starring were Nancy Kwan, James Shigeta, Benson Fong, James Hong, Reiko Sato and original Broadway cast members Jack Soo, Miyoshi Umeki and Juanita Hall.

Among various changes for the film, the song "Like a God" was changed from a song into a beat poetry presentation. The singing voice of the character Linda Low was B. J. Baker, a non-Asian studio singer who worked with, among others, Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Bobby Darin, the Righteous Brothers and Sam Cooke. "Love, Look Away" was also dubbed, by opera singer Marilyn Horne.

In 2008, Flower Drum Song was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".



More:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flower_Drum_Song_(film)

[sellitman]

8. You have to take a stupidity test to be a Republican.

They are blatantly ignorant as a rule.

It just boggles the mind.

[Ian David]

12. Yes, you do. Just ask Texas Rep. Squeezy McFeelpants (I mean, Al Edwards)

"Squeezy McFeelpants"--Former State Representative Al Edwards from Texas, who once banned a high school cheerleading routine deemed by him to be too suggestive. Over a bed of music that could be described at best as not entirely out of place in a porno, he enters, salaciously murmuring "Oh, my...Oh, my, my, my, my...Well, how-de-do?" before launching into an increasingly smutty discourse which invariably ends with Edwards being physically hauled away by security, protesting that he is only trying to help/save/protect the group in question.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_comedy_features_of_the_Stephanie_Miller_Show

[WhollyHeretic]

10. The stupidity and bigotry are astounding. This is a person responsible for making laws

:crazy: :scared:

[Winterblues]

11. What does a person's name have to do with a foreign language?

:shrug: Do Republicans have prizes for the most stupid? Sure to make Olberman's "Worst Person in the World"..

[Still Sensible]

13. The level of idiocy is breathtaking. n/t

[Historic NY]

14. Wow back to the 19th century,....Americanize your name. ...

America the melting pot.. Rep. Brown is saying give me your tired, your poor, but change your name.

[ashling]

15. They should just choose a president -sarcasm-sarcasm-

like our Negroes did when we let them come to America :sarcasm::sarcasm::sarcasm::sarcasm::sarcasm::sarcasm::sarcasm::sarcasm::sarcasm::sarcasm::sarcasm::sarcasm::sarcasm:
:sarcasm::sarcasm:
:sarcasm::sarcasm::sarcasm::sarcasm::sarcasm::sarcasm::sarcasm::sarcasm:

[PBS Poll-435]

16. God Bless Texas

:crazy:

[Dawgs]

18. Good. This only pushes Asian-Americans away from the republican party.

Good job dummy.

[ashling]

19. Just sent this letter to the Rep

I have just read of your comments to Ramey Ko, of the Organization of Chinese Americans.

I am glad to learn that you are from District 4 as I had been planning to move to that area for its beautiful rural setting. Now that I am aware of the quality of individual they have elected to the State House, I have decided to stay out! I just hope that the majority of your constituency is not as culturally ignorant and insensitive as you, but that is a chance I had rather not take.

[Cha]

20. Republicons should consider

deprogramming to make it easy for the country to deal with them.

[JonLP24]

21. LOL

What about white names like Pryzbylewski that are hard for me to deal with. Asians aren't the only ones with hard names to pronounce. :rofl:

[recoveringrepublican]

22. Why just Asians? Why not Greeks? I'm married to one, took his last name,

and rarely any one outside the Greek community even tries to pronounce it, and when they do 9 time out of 10 it's wrong. My hubby would shit bricks before he changed his last name. I also have a lot of Polish friends with hard last names to pronounce outside the Polish community.

What an idiot. I thought this was America

[sakabatou]

23. I'm sure Betty's not racist...

Right...?

:puke:

[Stevenmarc]

24. Ship her to Wales where she can live in ............

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwyll-llantysiliogogogoch

[deoxyribonuclease]

25. So she wants other people to change their names because she's too stupid/ignorant to learn

But, she does bring up the point that most Americans do not have any knowledge of foreign (especially Asian) languages.

My first name is a transliteration of my Chinese name, and almost nobody can pronounce it correctly. I now go by my 'westernized' middle name out of convenience since I got tired of correcting people or hearing them mangle my name.

Her statements are in line with the trend of Repubs wanting to dumb down America.