May 10, 2022 - Straight White American Jesus
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| Axis Mundi | |
| Axis Mundi In 1966, my father arrived on the mainland from Maui. | |
| His first home in California was a two-bedroom apartment in Los Angeles. | |
| He was a college freshman at Cal State LA, but rather than living in a dorm with other people his age, he lived with his grandmother, his mother, his sister, brother-in-law, and two nephews. | |
| Seven people, four generations, all trying to make a life in a new place. | |
| A childhood friend was attending Chapman University in Orange. | |
| Dad decided to visit her, making a 30-mile drive from L.A. | |
| to the heart of Orange County. | |
| As he tells it, once he got off the freeway in Orange, he tensed up. | |
| It's Orange County, he told himself. | |
| Not the kind of place a person of color wants to get pulled over. | |
| Drive the speed limit. | |
| Don't swerve. | |
| Keep your eyes forward. | |
| Although he was new to the Southland, word had reached as far as Maui that Orange County was an extremely conservative place. | |
| One not so welcoming to those who looked a little different. | |
| As someone who grew up in a predominantly Asian American community in Hawaii, it was the first time he was in a white majority space, and he was afraid. | |
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