Show threadFreddyB Aviation PhotographyMar 29, 2023
@ixi When we give into or allow xenophobia and hate we get Manzanar. I visited in 2021 and am still haunted by the whole experience. I simply could not shake the feeling of Evil that permeated that bleak place. The cemetery was particularly tough to witness In particular the marker for little Midori Furuya, Born in captivity August 12, 1943 and died in captivity August 14, 1943. #ExecutiveOrder9066 #WW2 #IncarcerationOfJapaneseAmericans #Manzanar
IXIFeb 20, 2023

On 19 February 1942, by order of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, every person of Japanese ancestry on the West Coast was rounded up and shipped to one of ten "relocation centers" hundreds or thousands of miles from home, where they would be held for years under armed guard.

George Takei's childhood as one of the more than 120,000 mass incarcerated was memorialised in the graphic novel "They Called Us Enemy".

#ExecutiveOrder9066 #WW2 #IncarcerationOfJapaneseAmericans
#AntiAsianRacism