The anniversary of Executive Order 9066 (1942), February 19, drew extra attention this year because of No. 45’s executive order on immigration and refugees. Since US legislators, executives, and judges are determined to reopen so many of the 20th Century’s civil rights debates, it makes sense to take a new look at the laws, rules, […]
Skepticism’s high price
My friend Jeanette Brantley is a storykeeper who holds her family’s tales and represents them through narratives, photograph collections, and photo-slide videos. A few months ago, she shared today’s featured photo with me. There’s quite a story behind it. Here are six young children, all smiling broadly. They’re siting in a cart in a field in […]
More on the Japanese internment
This week, George Takei shared more about his experience with socially marginalized people and marginalizing social laws. I referred to his 2014 TED talk in last night’s post; this morning, he published a new reflection on his life in a United States internment camp. The United States apologized for locking up Japanese Americans. Have we […]
Reflections on the US-Japanese Internment
Lately I’ve been honoring the Santayana quotation about being doomed to repetition by referring my readers to history: Habit and memory are a sort of heredity within the individual… Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible […]