Despite the disappointment I often express in my posts here, I am delighted to report that idealism and conviction are not dead in this country. Some thing are still worth fighting for—and not just the constitutional right to deprive other Americans of a fundamental right based solely on their sexual preference. No, Americans are also willing to stand up and join together to preserve something even more fundamental to this country and its proud history: racism.
The New York Times reports on the proud, firm stance that the residents of Beaumont, TX have taken against some far-left radicals who think that the name of “Jap Road” should be changed.
A group of Japanese-American race-baiters, whose numbers include the seditious veterans of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, are all up in arms because they think “Jap Road” is politically incorrect or some such nonsense. One of these liberal pansies attempted to justify their position:
"We Japanese are often ignored, but we’re still individuals with feelings,” Ms. Tanamachi said in an interview, speaking with a thick Texas twang. “I felt I could not stand in front of my students and talk about values like dignity and respect and not fight this thing."
Does that namby-pamby bullshit even make sense?
But this here’s AMERICA, and we don’t let no furriners push us around.
No, sir. The Beaumonteans quickly retaliated with the cogent, persuasive, rational arguments that are the hallmark of Texas politics:
"I hear ‘Jap’ cars and ‘Jap’ bikes all the time,” Buddy Derouen, 69, a retired petrochemical worker who lives on the road, in the community of Fannett, said in a recent letter published in The Beaumont Enterprise. “Why not Jap Road?"
(hey, why not “Redneck Road”, or “Ignorant Inbred Racist Motherfucker Road?")
"We’re not here to bash the Japanese,” Wayne Wright, a retired petrochemical worker who is spearheading a movement to preserve the name, said in an interview before the meeting. “How can I be considered a bigot and a racist when I got a Puerto Rican son-in-law?"
("some of my best friends are Jewish!")
"If we change the name, we’re conceding to the idea that it was meant the wrong way - and it wasn’t,” said Ms. Wright, pointing to wood on her floor that she said had come from Mr. Mayumi’s house nearby. “We’re proud of the name of our road."
("And when I called you a ‘nigger’? Well, I meant that the ‘right’ way, too.")
But the coup-de-grace was delivered by L. J. Bergeron, a retired pipe fitter and former gun shop owner who lives on Jap Road:
"If it’s offensive to someone, they should either move or stay away from here,” said Mr. Bergeron, 62, leaning on the Harley-Davidson parked in front of his home.
I’m so proud.
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This here's AMERICA.
