Sounds more like someone just wants to get paid. Having lived around that area back in a time when discrimination was more pronounced in many parts of the states and I would depict that area as pretty mild. Enough so that I would find it a bit difficult to believe her wide spread allegations. As you know, California as a whole is pretty open toward ethnicity. Although it could be true, I wonder if it is just someone waiting for a payday bonus....
"There are those that learn by reading. Then a few who learn by observation. The rest have to piss on an electric fence and find out for themselves!"- Will Rogers
Dude, Redding is the fuckin sticks man. I wouldn't be surprised if this was going on. Once you get out of the big cities, California turns into a backward ass hick town like any other place in the US.
Having said that, kids that are a quarter Japanese should look as white as wonder bread and the Japanese features should be just about moot.
If my kids were being tossed on at school this badly I would have raised hell a long, long time ago or moved back to civilization. There's blame to go around, but I hope they sue the shit outta Redding and make those Rednecks pay.
If this story were to have come out of Japan how would you feel?
I agree that racism should be delt with. Would never happen in Japan though - not even if there's a rumour of Korean heritage... nah, not in Japan... :P
I broke a mirror this morning, which means I should be getting 7 years of bad luck - but my lawyer says he can get me 5.
She probably wrote Happy Chinese New Year at first and some fucking super liberal bitch got his or her panties in a bunch and said, "but they also celebrate it in Taiwan, Korea, Singapore, Vietnam, etc.", so she tried to come up with a more inclusive salutation.
Anyway, this whole story sounds very suspect to me. I can't imagine kids that are only a qaurter Japanese and have very Anglo sounding names getting harassed like this at all levels in California (even a shithole small town in California).
Faith is believing what you know ain't so. -- Mark Twain