The teacher said, “Let’s begin by reviewing some History. Who said ‘Give me Liberty, or give me Death’?”<\/p>\n
She saw a sea of blank faces, except for Little Akio, a bright foreign exchange student from Japan, who had his hand up:<\/p>\n
“Patrick Henry, 1775,” he said.<\/p>\n
“Very good!<\/p>\n
Who said, ‘Government of the People, by the People, for the People, shall not perish from the Earth’?”<\/p>\n
Again, no response except from Little Akio:<\/p>\n
“Abraham Lincoln, 1863.”<\/p>\n
“Excellent!” said the teacher continuing, “Let’s try one a bit more difficult. Who said, ‘Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country’?”<\/p>\n
Once again, Akio’s was the only hand in the air and he said: “John F. Kennedy, 1961.”<\/p>\n
The teacher snapped at the class, “Class, you should be ashamed of yourselves, little Akio isn’t from this country and he knows more about our history than you do.”<\/p>\n
She heard a loud whisper: “F*ck the Japs.”<\/p>\n
“Who said that? — I want to know right now!? She angrily demanded.<\/p>\n
Little Akio put his hand up, “General MacArthur, 1945.”<\/p>\n
At that point, a student in the back said, “I’m gonna puke.’<\/p>\n
The teacher glares around and asks, ‘All right! — Now who said that?”<\/p>\n
Again, Little Akio says, “George Bush to the Japanese Prime Minister, 1991.”<\/p>\n
Now furious, another student yells, “Oh yeah? — Suck this!”<\/p>\n
Little Akio jumps out of his chair waving his hand and shouts to the teacher, “Bill Clinton, to Monica Lewinsky, 1997!”<\/p>\n
Now with almost mob hysteria someone said, “You little shit! — If you say anything else — I’ll kill you!”<\/p>\n
Little Akio frantically yells at the top of his voice: “Michael Jackson to the children testifying against him, 2004.”<\/p>\n
The teacher fainted. As the class gathered around the teacher on the floor, someone said, “Oh shit, we\u2019re screwed!”<\/p>\n
Little Akio said quietly, “The South African people, when Zuma was elected, May 2009.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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