| On July 26, 2008, Jan B. Tucker delivered a keynote speech at a fund raising event for AB 540 students at Los Angeles Mission College. AB 540 students are immigrants who were brought to America by their parents -- usually at a very early age -- and who have qualified to attend colleges and universities through hard work and academic achievement. But, since they are undocumented immigrants, they don't qualify for federal or state financial aid. Click below to listen to Tucker's speech on the history of the Southwest beginning with the fight at the Alamo, the Mexican-American war, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, and many other topics. Included is the little known history of how after Los Angeles surrendered to American forces in the Mexican-American War, the people revolted against the Marine Garrison and chased them out of Southern California all the way past San Luis Obispo and liberated San Diego from American occupation forces. |
| Ideas, Essays & Opinions Of & By Jan B. Tucker |
MISTAKEN IDENTITY???
For some reason, I keep getting mistaken for a black woman.
When Valerie Monroe and I held a press conference in 2000, a UPI photographer got
my name on her picture and sent it all over the state.
Then, Catherine Bridge, a reporter for the San Francisco legal newspaper, calls me
up asking for Jan Tucker. I said “yes.” She says, “well, will you get her for me?”
I say, “if you want to talk to Jan Tucker you have to talk to me.” She replies, “why, are
you her husband?” “No” say I, “I’m her.”
45 minutes into the conversation with me, she asks me what race I am. I’m offended
since the conversation has nothing to do with “race.” I tell her that the last time I
checked, I was part of the human race, but if she absolutely insists on using her
terminology as “race” being dependent on skin color, I happen to have “white” skin.
She finally fesses up that when she called, she had expected to be talking to a black
woman since she’d learned beforehand that I was active in NOW and the NAACP.
After 45 minutes she was thoroughly confused because to her, I talked like an
“African American,” or whatever that meant in her stereotypes of how African
Americans supposedly talk like.
Then, the same thing happens with black reporter Sam Williams. He calls up thinking
I’m a black woman and after 30 minutes he’s not sure whether I’m “white” or “black.”
So now, there’s a new source of confusion. My client makes out a check to “Jan
Perry” and hands it to me….
Well, I may be a supporter of the rights of transgender people, but I'm personally
perfectly comfortable having been born into a male body and I don’t think I look like L.
A. City Council Member Jan Perry. Now, if I were female, I wish I looked half as good
as she does, but with my beard, hairy chest and back and my opposable toes, I
probably look a lot more like a male chimpanzee or gorilla than like a human female.
Go figure.
For some reason, I keep getting mistaken for a black woman.
When Valerie Monroe and I held a press conference in 2000, a UPI photographer got
my name on her picture and sent it all over the state.
Then, Catherine Bridge, a reporter for the San Francisco legal newspaper, calls me
up asking for Jan Tucker. I said “yes.” She says, “well, will you get her for me?”
I say, “if you want to talk to Jan Tucker you have to talk to me.” She replies, “why, are
you her husband?” “No” say I, “I’m her.”
45 minutes into the conversation with me, she asks me what race I am. I’m offended
since the conversation has nothing to do with “race.” I tell her that the last time I
checked, I was part of the human race, but if she absolutely insists on using her
terminology as “race” being dependent on skin color, I happen to have “white” skin.
She finally fesses up that when she called, she had expected to be talking to a black
woman since she’d learned beforehand that I was active in NOW and the NAACP.
After 45 minutes she was thoroughly confused because to her, I talked like an
“African American,” or whatever that meant in her stereotypes of how African
Americans supposedly talk like.
Then, the same thing happens with black reporter Sam Williams. He calls up thinking
I’m a black woman and after 30 minutes he’s not sure whether I’m “white” or “black.”
So now, there’s a new source of confusion. My client makes out a check to “Jan
Perry” and hands it to me….
Well, I may be a supporter of the rights of transgender people, but I'm personally
perfectly comfortable having been born into a male body and I don’t think I look like L.
A. City Council Member Jan Perry. Now, if I were female, I wish I looked half as good
as she does, but with my beard, hairy chest and back and my opposable toes, I
probably look a lot more like a male chimpanzee or gorilla than like a human female.
Go figure.
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| Tucker for U.S. Senate 2010 (see below) |