It's the first day of school
in Washington, DC a new student named
Dagohoy, son of a Filipino immigrant, entered
the fourth grade.
The teacher began, "Let's review some
American history, class. Who said 'Give me liberty or give me
death?'
She saw a sea of blank
faces, except
for Dagohoy's who had his hand up, "Patrick
Henry, 1775." "Very
good," said the teacher.
"Who said 'Government of the people,
by the people,and for the people shall not perish from the
earth'"? Again,
no response except from Dagohoy: "Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg,
1863," he said.
The teacher snaps at the class,
"Class, you should be ashamed, Dagohoy who is new to our
country knows more about our history than you
do."
She hears a loud whisper from the
back: "Screw the Filipinos." "Who said that?" she demanded.
Dagohoy put his hand up. "General John Pershing, Manila,
1896."
At that point, Jack, another student
says, "I'm going to puke."
The teacher glares and asks, "All
right! Now who said that?"
Again Dagohoy answers, "George
Bush, Sr. to theJapanese Prime Minister during the state
dinner, Tokyo, 1991."
Now furious another student yells, "Oh
yeah? Suck this!!"
Dagohoy jumps out of his
chair waving his hand and shouts to the teacher at the top
of his voice, "Bill Clinton toMonica Lewinsky,
the Oval
Office, 1997!!"
Someone shouts, "You little shit if
you say anything else, I'll kill you." Dagohoy yells,
"Congressman Gary
Condit to Chandra Levy, Washington, D.C.,
2001!"
The teacher fainted then someone
says, "Oh shit, now we're really in big trouble!"
"Saddam Hussein, on the Iraq invasion, Bhagdad, May
2003!" Dagohoy bellowed.
