George Takei  ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ๐Ÿ––๐ŸฝDec 7, 2022
Today is Pearl Harbor Day in the U.S., a โ€œday that will live in infamyโ€ for the unprovoked attack by the Empire of Japan upon U.S. forces stationed in Hawaii. But it also marked a dark turning point for Japanese Americans, who overnight became the โ€œenemy.โ€ (1/4)
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Show threadGeorge Takei  ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ๐Ÿ––๐Ÿฝ
At age 4, I was classified as 4c, enemy alien, even though I was born in the U.S. Within a few months, the internment of our community was ordered by FDR with broad support from the American people, who turned their backs upon us. We lost our homes, our businesses and our freedoms. (2/4)
Dec 7, 2022 at 6:00pmWeb
Show threadGeorge Takei  ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ๐Ÿ––๐ŸฝDec 7, 2022
It has been my lifelong mission to tell the story of the Japanese American internment so that we remember and do not repeat the mistakes of the past. Now, I am bringing that story to the UK from Jan-Apr in a show called โ€œAllegianceโ€ based on my own experiences. (3/4)
Show threadGeorge Takei  ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ๐Ÿ––๐ŸฝDec 7, 2022

If you are in London early in 2023, I would be deeply honored if you came to share in this storytelling by joining us at Allegiance. Thank you.

โ€” Uncle George (4/4)

https://allegiancemusical.com/

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Show threadMike Zipser (he/him)Dec 7, 2022
@georgetakei We will be in London in early March and hope to get tickets to see it.
Show threadSuswati Basu (ๅทด่‹) Dec 7, 2022
@georgetakei you're awesome Uncle George, love London x
Show threadMira KamdarDec 7, 2022
@georgetakei I will be in February and will come!
Show threadLC HopalongDec 7, 2022
@georgetakei Thank you for doing the work to remind us that the past is still with us today. Too many want to pretend that it doesnโ€™t.
Show threadNeil A. EvansDec 7, 2022
@georgetakei already have my tickets booked.
Show threadlaurey19Dec 7, 2022
@georgetakei wish I could be there! Break a leg! Thanks for sharing with us.
Show threadEthel CrimbleDec 7, 2022

@georgetakei

We're coming on 4th Feb.xxx

Show threadGeoff HannDec 7, 2022
@georgetakei We will try to arrange our upcoming trip to Europe to attend! Such an important story.
Show threadFunHouse RadioDec 7, 2022
@georgetakei love you George. I hope you can make it to a convention in Minneapolis soon. I got to meet Nichelle Nichols at one a few years back. I was truly star stuck. She's so amazing. You are amazing too.
Show threadPetro KoriakinDec 7, 2022
@georgetakei hehe ) I'll try to join you!
Show threadPJT NorthDec 7, 2022
@georgetakei If I can I will.
Show threadTacit SubtextDec 7, 2022

@georgetakei Iโ€™ve seen Allegiance and recommend it! Excellent and moving story, and the songs are so lovely. Gaman especially stuck with me (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EunqF5gfyMo).

#Allegiance #AllegianceMusical #Musicals #MusicalTheater #GeorgeTakei #LeaSalonga #Gaman

Allegiance - Gaman

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Show threadCypherCDec 7, 2022
@georgetakei While you are over there, could you perhaps ask around about one of these?
Show threadabsonitaDec 7, 2022
@georgetakei
US people always was manipulated by pseudo-victimism to aval the attack to the "enemy".
God and patriotism are implanted in their minds from early age to alienate them.
So, they think they are free but...
Show threadTofu GolemDec 8, 2022
@georgetakei
My Japanese mother moved here after the war, so when I look back at these events, I identify with the people outside the fence, and the whole thing fills me with revulsion because America rejected many of our own most cherished beliefs about the proper relationship between the individual and the government.
Show threadJoรฃo PinheiroDec 8, 2022
@georgetakei Wars are so, so stupid!
Show threadMPB KernowDec 8, 2022
@georgetakei sorry I won't be able to attend, but I wish you much success.
Show threadZZ BottomDec 9, 2022
@georgetakei โค๏ธ
Show threadJoe Pajak (Dr)Dec 9, 2022

@georgetakei

The #SARSCoV2 virus presents the highest risk of transmission in crowded, indoor spaces, with poor ventilation, and few people wearing [effective] masks.
๐Ÿ“ˆCovid 'IS' seasonal - 'EVERY' season.
#COVIDisAirborne #CovidIsNotOver

Show threadMudhead ๐Ÿ––Dec 12, 2022
@georgetakei
Uncle George, will you take the show to Las Vegas?
Show threadAlceaDec 7, 2022

@georgetakei

Yes.
That's the way.

Remembrance is one thing.
Avoiding future repeatance another

Show threadAjayDec 7, 2022
@georgetakei #History https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/yinhistory/EP11-Petroleum_and_WWII_Allied_Victory.mp3
Show threadJames R BennDec 7, 2022
@georgetakei Good luck! Wish I was on that side of the pond. I wrote about the 442nd RCT and the camps in my recent book FROM THE SHADOWS and was lucky enough to have family histories to draw upon.
Show threadPeter BoydDec 7, 2022
@georgetakei oh goody, are all your millions of twitter fans coming tooโ€ฆโ€ฆ..
Show threadUnprecedented 2023Dec 7, 2022
@georgetakei All the best George.
Show threadKarl AuerbachDec 7, 2022
@georgetakei Years ago I was at an exhibition of photos of the camps (mostly Manzanar). I overheard a woman say "I was born there." It was a simple statement but it erased the time and space gap between the photos and the reality that it happened to real, living people.
Show thread@[email protected]Dec 7, 2022

@karlauerbach @georgetakei There's a supercentenarian in Brazil that was born to one of the last children born enslaved. Slavery was abolished in 1888.

I think about this quite a bit, how there's people in the world today that are living history and we don't honor them enough.

Show threadKarl AuerbachDec 7, 2022

@lanika @georgetakei - Here in the US we have the infamous and shameful Korematsu case where our Supreme Court refused to condemn the WW-II internment camps. The US partially apologized in 1988.

I had not realized that Brazil had slavery until 1888.

I do feel that we (US) own some form of reparations to those who have been damaged by slavery or internment, even if that happened to their ancestors. The harms we inflicted run through the generations.

Show thread@[email protected]Dec 7, 2022

@karlauerbach

It's a strong discussion in Brazil too.
We have legislation that provides scholarships for the POC (mostly for the African descendents and native population) and it has lifted young people from poverty (and they lift up their communities!) and the violence is disproportionately worse for black people.

Social mobility is also way harder for POC. The same old story: keep people poor to get them desperate enough to work for peanuts.

Show thread12foxfireDec 7, 2022
@georgetakei
I hope someday I can watch your story on video.
Show threadDeadBeats โ™ฅ๏ธ๐ŸŽธ๐Ÿ”ฅ ๐ŸŽถ โ€ข SimonJesterDec 7, 2022
@georgetakei Mr. Takei, my father was a Sgt. coming back from overseas, and he was assigned to Tule Lake internment camp as a guard. He used to tell me that they sent the " hotheads " there but that they were ' good kids ' really and that he didn't blame them for being angry, he would have been too. @Mare52
Show threadRoryDec 8, 2022
@georgetakei Good luck, my friend. I don't know what you went through, George, but I hope no one will ever go through something as horrendous as what you went through...
Show threadBackphilDec 8, 2022
@georgetakei best of luck George. A story well worth telling and a warning to all.
Show threadDaveDec 18, 2022

@georgetakei

I saw your presentation you gave live on Star Trek the Cruise V. You were fantastic. We got our picture taken with you, too. I'll always treasure it.

Show threadMoraxDec 7, 2022
@georgetakei Thank you for sharing. I was given a very "white washed"/glossed over version of what happened in school. Its sad when you learn how it actually impacted people.
Show threadJames R BennDec 7, 2022
@georgetakei A friend's mother was put to work in the orphanage at Manzanar. Astounding that they even took young orphans and put them in the camps.
Show threadLefty has moved!Dec 7, 2022
@georgetakei
If this plays in the US you're going to have to change the name to "I Was a 4-Year-Old Spy" to get any interest.
Show threadE. C. ChangDec 7, 2022
@Lefty @georgetakei It ran on Broadway 2015-2016, and in Los Angeles in 2018.
Show threadUnprecedented 2023Dec 7, 2022
@georgetakei ๐Ÿ˜ช๐Ÿ˜ช๐Ÿ˜ช
Show threadCindyDec 7, 2022
@georgetakei I read โ€œThey Called Us Enemyโ€ a year or two ago. How it made my heart hurt!
Show threadAnthonyDec 7, 2022
@georgetakei George, any chance of a follow it would make my day. Huge fan love you loads
Show threadFiona BrambleDec 7, 2022
@georgetakei as it was in Canada ๐Ÿ˜ž
Show threadPoeticLicenseDKDec 7, 2022

@georgetakei
My grandfather, taken in the middle of the night by men in black suits. Fleet of fishing boats, torched. All business assets, abandoned. Grandma Masako, after ordered to assemble at Tanforan Racetrack, gathered all family possessions and made a bonfire. My mom, Mariko, taught herself to read at the Topaz Internment Camp. Gamฤn.

Gran

Show threadTom WilliamsDec 9, 2022
@georgetakei the same happened here in Australia.
Show threadDaveDec 13, 2022

@georgetakei, we Americans tend to think we're on the high moral road but it's been less than 80 years since 'Blacks' had to ride in the back of the bus & use different water fountains, your people were round up and put in concentration camps and calling someone a communist could ruin their lives. Or, God forbid, someone found out they were gay. Oh, and we take pride on ridding the world of nuclear weapons. But a question: What country is the only one in history to actually USE a nuclear weapon.

I think this country could use a bit of humility.