I’m not sure how I missed this headline in the news last week. Perhaps, it was not held in high regard compared to articles covering the first puppy of the White House.

I was not amused by Texas state Rep. Betty Brown’s suggestion for Asian-American voters to adopt “easier” names for voter registration rolls. Brown (R-Terell) gave her suggestion to Ramey Ko (a member from the Organization of Chinese Americans) during a public hearing last week:

“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? 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?”

Was she resolving “voter registration issues” or making a racial comment?  In this case, change is not always perceived as good, rather an issue of racism and ignorance demonstrated by a political figure in Texas.

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The GOP could possibly hit us with another Jindal or Palin to reciprocate to the “change movement” but Betty Brown’s public apology to the Asian-American community has done little to clean up their image.

Source: Huffington Post