Teaming up with the Japanese American National Museum, actor George Takei honored a survivor of one of America’s more disgusting decisions: to force more than 100,000 Japanese-Americans and Japanese natives into internment camps in the 1940s, because, uh, they looked like the enemy.
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George Takei’s Wonderful Valentine’s Day Surprise For Japanese Internment Camp Survivor
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Boum Boum
“One of America’s more disgusting decisions”, yeah, along with bombing Hiroshima, Nagazaki, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Serbia, Afghanistan, Iraq and Somalia, invading Haiti, Granada, having Salvador Allende and Patrice Lumumba assassinated, supporting the Contras, arming Indonesian dictactorship as well as Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Israel, occupying Okinanawa, torturing people at Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib.
Nathan
George Takei is great; he doesn’t forget where he came from and is an excellent representative both for the LGBT and the Japanese-American communities.
sharon falconer
@Boum Boum: 1,000% right, sadly.
George T. is a mensch.
Squibeaorjaoeitt
Boum Boum –
*Nagasaki
*Grenada
*Okinawa