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Long before he was Mr. Sulu on Star Trek, actor George Takei had to face a harsh reality. At the age of 5, Takei was one of more than 120,000 Americans of Japanese descent who were ordered into internment camps during World War II. Takei,who was born in Los Angeles, spent three years in the camps.
“It is a day that all Americans should know about,” he said. “Alas, I’m astounded by the number of people — particularly east of the Rockies — who say to me, aghast, ‘I had no idea such a thing had happened in the United States.’ ”
Today is the 70th anniversary of executive order 9066, which created the camps. I think this publicity will help bring much needed attention to the possibility that this may very well happen again.
Seriously though... I had no idea he was born in the states or even this old.
In answer to your question, I don't think that it would be about race this time. I think that any group that the U S government sees as a threat could be next.
Probably not the Japanese. lol
But perhaps Iranian Americans or Muslims?
Keep in mind, please, that this is a different era, than in the early 1940s....in a hundred different ways.....
Originally posted by ProudBird
Keep in mind, please, that this is a different era, than in the early 1940s....in a hundred different ways.....
I DO want to point out that, even in this day and age, even in as "liberal" as state as California, there are those who would, out of fear, politics, or religious agenda, seek to marginalize some "other" group as evil or (potentially) dangerous. And that basis, deny said group the very rights we all enjoy and depend upon.