{"id":873,"date":"2009-04-11T15:18:54","date_gmt":"2009-04-11T19:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=873"},"modified":"2009-04-11T15:19:40","modified_gmt":"2009-04-11T19:19:40","slug":"betty-brown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2009\/04\/11\/betty-brown\/","title":{"rendered":"Seeing Red Over Rep. Betty Brown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a bit late on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nikkeiview.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/09\/texas-lawmaker-thinks-asians-should-change-their-names-so-americans-could-deal-with-them\/\">&#8220;Asians should change their names&#8221;<\/a> story.  But I do have the &#8220;on vacation&#8221; and &#8220;under the weather&#8221; excuse. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Texas state representative Betty Brown (R-Terrell, in North Texas) caused a ruckus on Tuesday by saying, during testimony about voter ID legislation, that Asians would have an easier time of getting along if they simply changed their names.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRather than everyone here having to learn Chinese \u2014 I understand it\u2019s a rather difficult language \u2014 do you think that it would behoove you and your citizens to adopt a name that we could deal with more readily here?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If anyone deserves a double limerick, it&#8217;s Rep. Betty Brown:<\/p>\n<p>Seeing Red Over Rep. Betty Brown<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>If your name hails from Asia, it&#8217;s hard.<br \/>\nSo don&#8217;t bitch if your ballot is barred.<br \/>\nSaid Rep. Brown, &#8220;Change your name,&#8221;<br \/>\nCuz your name is to blame<br \/>\nFor confusing us. What a canard!<\/p>\n<p>Please take heed if your name&#8217;s Cho or Wu,<br \/>\nAnd here&#8217;s what I think you should do:<br \/>\nSimply pity Rep. Brown.<br \/>\nShe&#8217;s a prejudiced clown.<br \/>\nLa femme est chauvine et sans clue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a bit late on the &#8220;Asians should change their names&#8221; story. But I do have the &#8220;on vacation&#8221; and &#8220;under the weather&#8221; excuse. Texas state representative Betty Brown (R-Terrell, in North Texas) caused a ruckus on Tuesday by saying, during testimony about voter ID legislation, that Asians would have an easier time of getting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,7,3,611,610],"tags":[615,612,614,618,619,613,617,616],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=873"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":878,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873\/revisions\/878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}