Straight White American Jesus - The Orange Wave Ep. 3: From the Goldrush to the Tea Party
Aired: 2022-05-10
Duration: 02:31


=== Axis Mundi: A New Life Begins (02:31) ===

[00:00:00]  Axis Mundi
[00:00:08]  Axis Mundi In 1966, my father arrived on the mainland from Maui.
[00:00:38]  His first home in California was a two-bedroom apartment in Los Angeles.
[00:00:41]  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.
[00:00:52]  Seven people, four generations, all trying to make a life in a new place.
[00:00:58]  A childhood friend was attending Chapman University in Orange.
[00:01:01]  Dad decided to visit her, making a 30-mile drive from L.A.
[00:01:05]  to the heart of Orange County.
[00:01:07]  As he tells it, once he got off the freeway in Orange, he tensed up.
[00:01:11]  It's Orange County, he told himself.
[00:01:13]  Not the kind of place a person of color wants to get pulled over.
[00:01:17]  Drive the speed limit.
[00:01:19]  Don't swerve.
[00:01:20]  Keep your eyes forward.
[00:01:22]  Although he was new to the Southland, word had reached as far as Maui that Orange County was an extremely conservative place.
[00:01:28]  One not so welcoming to those who looked a little different.
[00:01:32]  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.
[00:01:40]  Hello.
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