This video is very important ATRL brothers & sisters. Watch it. He came for him with receipts.
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George Takei has spoken about his childhood in a Japanese incarceration camp before, but in a video published to his Facebook page yesterday, he did it in an entirely different way: in Spanish, which he speaks and understands.
In the video, the "Star Trek" actor and LGBTQ advocate addressed his Spanish-speaking fans and compared the "racial demonization" of Japanese Americans during World War II to the extreme rhetoric used by Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.
"We were targets simply because we happened to look like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor," Takei said in Spanish. "When Trump today says Mexicans are rapists and drug dealers, it is his way of similarly dehumanizing whole groups, so that he can set his plans in motion."
"Back then, they simply said, 'A Jap is a Jap,' and we lost our homes and freedom, even though two thirds of us were U.S. citizens," Takei said. "Today, Trump tells his supporters that a 'Mexican is a Mexican.'"
I agree and it's disgusting. My dad supports Trump and we are part Hispanic. I feel like he is a sellout, delusional, and it's sad. I can't believe I almost supported Trump and I'm glad I #woke up to everything that's really going on behind the scenes.
Ofcourse he is right. Racism is becoming more and more normal and the fact that someone like trump can run for president of the united states just shows us how messed up people are nowadays
The Japanese incarceration camps are a very dark and very overlooked part of American history. I'm glad that he's bringing attention to them and drawing the obvious parallels with the current Republican platform.
Ofcourse he is right. Racism is becoming more and more normal and the fact that someone like trump can run for president of the united states just shows us how messed up people are nowadays
