7.21.2004

Road Needs Name Change

'Jap Road' to Get Name Change. Leave it to Texas to cause a stir over a road with a name like Jap Road. This reminds me of a river in Upstate New York called the Fishkill. This river was the center of controversy after a tree hugger decided that it was insulting to call a river Fishkill because it promotes killing fish. It caused a huge debate an many NYC news reporters got involved and took sides until the local paper, The Times Herald Record (I think) pointed out that the river was named by Dutch settlers. In Dutch Fishkill means "Fish River." All of a sudden all those people had to pull their feet out of their collective mouths and pick a new thing to protest. Jap Road, although today politically uncorrect, was named in honor of a Japanese family, the Mayumi's, that settled there at the turn of the century over a hundred years ago. Get a life and a clue people.

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