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George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽 (georgetakei@universeodon.com)'s status on Sunday, 14-May-2023 05:14:48 JST George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽

I spoke recently with Ali Velshi on the #VelshiBannedBookClub on MSNBC about my graphic memoir, “They Called Us Enemy.”
History is so important. It should not be hidden or whitewashed. #LetThemLearn
Here’s the clip. https://www.msnbc.com/ali-velshi/watch/-velshibannedbookclub-george-takei-s-they-called-us-enemy-174252101879
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  #VelshiBannedBookClub: George Takei’s ‘They Called Us Enemy’
  
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  George Takei’s “They Called Us Enemy” is a powerfully crafted graphic novel about finding strength in pain – using the clear language and expressive, comic-book style drawings of a children’s book to tell a very adult story. In response to the deadly strike on Pearl Harbor in 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 – systemically stripping Japanese-Americans of their civil rights, their homes, their property, and their dignity. 120,000 Japanese Americans, including the Takei family, were forced into barbed wire-lined concentration camps across the nation simply for having Japanese heritage. The book moves effortlessly between the naivete of a young boy in the internment camps and the more complex and darker reflections of older Takei today. While “They Called Us Enemy” is a poignant memoir and commemoration of this brutal time in America’s not-so-distant past -- it also honors heritage, community, and family.
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  Mickey Lloyd (mlbellar@universeodon.com)'s status on Sunday, 14-May-2023 05:30:22 JST Mickey Lloyd
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  "we tend to treat #history like a solid, when its nature is liquid" - years of paying attention
  
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  John Breen (jab01701mid@universeodon.com)'s status on Sunday, 14-May-2023 05:31:10 JST John Breen
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  @georgetakei I watched
  
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  MartenHoyle (martenhoyle@universeodon.com)'s status on Sunday, 14-May-2023 05:45:43 JST MartenHoyle
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  @georgetakei I will have to get a copy.
  
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  Susan Cohen (thetiaralady@universeodon.com)'s status on Sunday, 14-May-2023 07:45:50 JST Susan Cohen
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  @georgetakei I realize that you & others like you are trying to be sensitive to Jews when you avoid the term "concentration camp. but the fact is, you & other Japanese Americans WERE put in CONCENTRATION camps. They were just not *extermination camps* (thank Heaven for small mercies). But, as a Jew, I WANT whatever gravitas the term "concentration camp" has to be given to what you all suffered, to make it that much clearer to people what racist horror it was.
  
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