George Takei  🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽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)
Show threadGeorge 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)
Show threadGeorge Takei  🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽Dec 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 “Allegiance” based on my own experiences. (3/4)
Show threadGeorge Takei  🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽Dec 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.

— Uncle George (4/4)

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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.
Dec 8, 2022 at 4:16amWeb