In today’s front page of our paper, a story of how kids from a public school here were called Asian racist names during a basketball game.
This is not the first time these girls were taunted with racial slurs…being yelled “Soy Sauce!” Go Back to Fiji!”, “Small Eyes!”, “You’re Ugly!”
A Japanese father who was there told the Bee on-line, how his grandfather was interned, his father was in the Army during WWII so their children wouldn’t
be treated with such indignities. I wrote the following to the authors of this story. Whether they will publish or not is a ?.
Dear Ms. Locke and Mr. Lindelof
My gratitude to you for the story in the Bee this morning.
Would be you be able to direct this to Letters to the Editor?
Do you think unkindness and inhumane behavior that have been so carefully or so carelessly taught in these youngsters can be unlearned?
When I was in high school, these students drove us Japanese girls to use scotch tape to make our eyes look bigger for that ” Caucasian double eyes look” to avoid
taunts of “Jap” and “Slant Eyes”. I am saddened and furious that these youngsters have not gone away and are still here in El Dorado Hills.
Frances Kakugawa's Blog 
You know, the educational system is also to blame including parents, teachers, and the community, and starting with Washington since they are mandating the no child left behind policy, drill, drill, drill and strive to be the best. I’m sure California is not the only state, even here in Hawaii, the so-called land of aloha and forgiveness, there are traces of racism in every school. America insists they are the best, but they fail to teach the youngsters manners, good behavior, and KINDNESS to others. Just look at the current political scene today; there is violence, back-stabbing, heckling, publicly denouncing each other by teasing about one’s hands, hairdo, clothing, etc and this all done by presidential candidates!! And campaigns are all being witnessed by the Children! Guess what their future will hold for them. Hi Frances!
The home and the educational system along with the technological world are doing this …dehumanizing our young people. And we worked so hard in the classroom while we were teaching. Maybe the figures in our political world are by-products of this new system of ours.