I never idea the events today would convey happened too then soon. The sheer stupidity of the province of affairs would endure plenty to give anyone a headache, too equally a affair of fact, I nevertheless convey one. Let me outline the events of today equally follows:
I left schoolhouse at my commons fourth dimension too was headed to Goodwill electronics to abide by a cassette adapter. I was inwards a turning lane too inwards front end of me was a Japanese adult woman did a U turn. She was well-nigh iv cars inwards front end of me too inside sight of the cop car. The constabulary sat in that place doing NOTHING too 1 time they saw me, it was game on. Now, mightiness I inquire equally to why when in that place was ample fourth dimension to delineate her over, did I reap the wrath?
No 1 likes a run inwards amongst the cops inwards their ain province too it’s arguably worse inwards a unusual country, peculiarly Okinawa, where tensions betwixt the U.S.A. of America state of war machine too unopen minded individuals exist. And yes, I did state that because fifty-fifty though some of the population hither won’t speak well-nigh it, how does 1 larn explaining the picketing inwards front end of bases? How does 1 explicate the taxi ride I was refused past times an older human inwards Oct telling me he didn’t give rides to state of war machine fifty-fifty though I told him I wasn’t?
They kept bespeak if I was military, SOFA status, what branch I was inwards too who my sponsor was. I don’t know what component of, “Watashi wa eigo no sensei” or “military jannai” didn’t larn through the sometime man’s thick skull but my words savage upon deaf ears. When I said I could speak a niggling Japanese too for him to speak slowly, the officeholder spoke to me speedily which served to frustrate me more.
I asked if I could endure allow off amongst a alarm equally my driving tape was spotless, this was my source law-breaking too that I was a security driver. Japanese constabulary don’t give a damn because they assume every foreigner on Okinawa is American military. When faced amongst mutual frigidity difficult prove I was not, they became unsure of what to create similar a broken robot alone serving 1 function.
He called a adult woman on the telephone who spoke English linguistic communication too when I asked her well-nigh the rules of the route inwards Nihon she danced but about my question. I asked iii times too she responded the state of war machine should convey given me one. Note my frustration. When asked, I surrendered my resident identification carte to essay out I was non what they were accusing me of. Might I add, the ignorant sometime human amongst rotted teeth had beady eyes looking but about my wallet spell it was opened upwards intently hoping to uncovering a state of war machine ID.
I was handed the ticket too the unopen minded constabulary officeholder asked me 1 time once to a greater extent than if my married adult man was state of war machine too who my sponsor was later I answered no previous times. I was too then angry I responded equally snarky equally I could, “How many times create I convey to order yous I’m NOT MILITARY?”
And in that place yous convey it, ladies too gentleman. I depict on the decision of discrimination because I believe the constabulary officeholder idea me to endure a liar. I likewise believe that he had some self fulfilling prophecy well-nigh whatever he believed me to endure too wanted too then badly for me to correspond that stereotype. Honestly, a traffic violation is a traffic violation too I empathize in that place are consequences. What I volition non represent is the agency I was treated too the fact the Japanese daughter inwards front end of me was given the blind midpoint spell the attending savage to me. I volition non sit down idly spell this injustice has come upwards to play.