

In episode 1 of _Bakuon!!_ , around 20 minutes in, Onsa indicates that she is
going to borrow from John F. Kennedy, and says what Crunchyroll translates as
the following:

> In exporting motorcycles throughout the world, our nation of Japan has
> brought liberty and justice to all. And yet, could you say to your heart,
> "Freedom, except for Suzuki riders," that we are all equal before the Lord
> except for Suzuki?

Which Kennedy oration is she taking that from? Also, here is a picture of
anime JFK.

[![Kennedy-
senpai](https://i.stack.imgur.com/MEJk6l.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/MEJk6.jpg)


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Which Kennedy oration is Onsa adapting in episode 1?


My best guess is that Onsa is rather loosely adapting the following paragraph
of Kennedy's 1963 [Civil Rights
Address](http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/primary-
resources/jfk-civilrights/):

> We preach freedom around the world, and we mean it, and we cherish our
> freedom here at home; but are we to say to the world, and, much more
> importantly, for each other, that this is a land of the free except for the
> Negroes; that we have no second-class citizens except Negroes; that we have
> no class or caste system, no ghettos, no master race, except with respect to
> Negroes?

The "except for..." language used by Onsa roughly matches that used in
Kennedy's oration, but that's about as far as it goes. If you have a look at
the [Japanese version of the address](http://www.jfklibrary.org/JFK/Historic-
Speeches/Multilingual-Address-to-the-Nation-on-Civil-Rights/Multilingual-
Address-to-the-Nation-on-Civil-Rights-in-Japanese.aspx) (which, miraculously,
exists), you'll find that the sentence structure is not even parallel to
Kennedy's. There are also no references to religion in Kennedy's speech, so
I'm not really sure what it's doing in Onsa's.

Googling for fragments of Onsa's speech that one would expect to be lifted
unaltered from their source (e.g. 「自らの魂のもとに自由」) gets you nothing but
_Bakuon!!_ results.

In summary, I'd like to quote one of America's greatest presidents:

> "Methinks some intern was crunched for time and ended up passing off random
> inspirational-sounding quotes as excerpts from Kennedy's speeches."  
>  ―Abraham Lincoln


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