"Jap Road" To Get Name Change

[matcom]

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BEAUMONT, Texas (Reuters) - A decade-long fight over a quiet country lane called "Jap Road" ended on Monday when local officials voted to change the racially charged name.

After hours of often bitter testimony, the Jefferson County Commissioners voted 4-3 to do away with the name that once honored a Japanese family, but now is considered a racial slur.

Residents of the road, located on the outskirts of the southeast Texas town of Fannett, 55 miles east of Houston, were given until next week to propose a new name.

The four-mile road has been around about 100 years and was said to be named in honor of Yoshio Mayumi and his family, who introduced the region to rice farming.

Some have suggested the name be changed to Mayumi Road.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=573&ncid=573&e=1&u=/nm/20040720/od_nm/life_road_dc

[GOPisEvil]

1. Can it be?! A semblance of racial tolerance in SE Texas?!

Say it ain't so! :o

[jpgray]

2. Ah Texas. I hear it intersects with Wetback Lane

(Kidding! I read the article. :D)

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

3. Just off Superior White Man Freeway

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