Mastodawn

🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽Dec 7, 2022

Today is Pearl Harbor Day in the U.S., a “day that will live in infamy” 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 “enemy.” (1/4)

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George Takei

🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽Dec 7, 2022

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)

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PoeticLicenseDK

@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. Gamān.

Gran