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Today is 80th anniv of the US exec order that incarcerated my whole family & 120,000 Americans of Japanese descent. THIS WK, I was shocked to discover that a BIPOC equity-focused critical scholar didn't know ab Japanese American resistance & reparations. A 🧵... 1/ 
As a kid every yr, thx to my mom, I taught my class ab WWII incarceration of JAs bc it was never in the curriculum. This is my dad & his parents on the CO River Indian Reservation in AZ, aka the Poston camp. Their smiles belie the racist injustice that devastated their lives. 2/
But there was a WHOLE ASS resistance & redress mvmt that (apparently) many don't know ab - led by young JAs.
No-No boys & Tule Lake incarcerees resisted during the war, Gordon Hirabayashi (a student @UW!), Mitsuye Endo & others sent cases to SCOTUS. 2/ densho.org/catalyst/mitsu…
No-No boys & Tule Lake incarcerees resisted during the war, Gordon Hirabayashi (a student @UW!), Mitsuye Endo & others sent cases to SCOTUS. 2/ densho.org/catalyst/mitsu…
On this #NationalDayOfRemembrance, let’s remember Dave Komatsu, quarterback of the @usfca #USFDons freshman football team in 1941. Pictured in the @SFFoghorn (October 24, 1941) bit.ly/3gZaZb6 @DonsAthletics
Because of documents created by incarcerated people of Japanese descent and records created by the U.S. government, we can trace how David Komatsu’s life was interrupted by Executive Order 9066 #EO9066 #NationalDayOfRemembrance
Dave Komatsu was a 17 year old U.S. citizen, born in the United States, and he had spent less than a year in Japan. From @USNatArchives Japanese-American Internee Data File, 1942-1946 bit.ly/3JELEiR #NationalDayOfRemembrance
THREAD: Today, Feb. 19, is the anniversary of #EO9066, FDR's executive order that authorized the mass roundup and incarceration of Japanese Americans--including my family.
Across the country, Japanese Americans commemorate this as the #DayOfRemembrance. /1
Across the country, Japanese Americans commemorate this as the #DayOfRemembrance. /1
To read about how #EO9066 impacted my own family, you can read this piece that I wrote in 2017 for the Smithsonian @amhistorymuseum. /2 americanhistory.si.edu/blog/carl-take…
And to understand why the Supreme Court's 2018 repudiation of the infamous Korematsu case -- in the midst of upholding Trump's Muslim Ban -- gives me no comfort today, you can read what I wrote on that topic two years ago. /3 aclu.org/blog/immigrant…
77 years ago, FDR signed #EO9066, which authorized the incarceration of 120k Americans of Japanese ancestry in “relocation camps” in the West & Arkansas. #DayOfRemembrance
Race baiting flyers like this one from Theodore Geisel - the one & only Dr. Seuss - helped lead to the uprooting of Americans simply because their ethnicity made them suspicious. #DayOfRemembrance
Many Japanese Americans had less than 48 hours to pack what they could, & sell the rest of their possessions to neighbors who gladly only paid them 25¢ on the dollar - if that. What would you have packed? Or sold without knowing what the future held?
THREAD: It’s both profoundly offensive and oddly appropriate that the Center for Immigration Studies (widely known as a racist, anti-immigrant org) picked this week to launch a PR effort claiming that family detention doesn’t cause suffering or deprive anyone of civil rights. /1
The timing of CIS’s effort to whitewash family detention is especially offensive because today, Feb. 19, is the #DayOfRemembrance, when Japanese Americans mark the anniversary of #EO9066, the executive order authorizing the mass roundup and detention of Japanese Americans. /2
Yet this timing is also oddly appropriate, because CIS’s pro-family-detention rhetoric so closely echoes WWII propaganda justifying the roundup and incarceration of my community. /3
Today in 1942 President Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, under which nearly 75,000 American citizens of Japanese ancestry were taken into custody. Another 45,000 Japanese nationals living in the United States were also incarcerated. #DayOfRemembrance #EO9066
#EO9066 was issued ten weeks after Pearl Harbor. Toku Shimomura of Seattle described the news of the attack in her diary, writing “Our future has become gloomy. I pray that God will stay with us.” #DayOfRemembrance
Three months after Pearl Harbor, Americans of Japanese ancestry and Japanese nationals living on the Pacific Coast and in southern Arizona were ordered to register and then report within a week to hastily designated temporary detention centers. #EO9066 #DayOfRemembrance
Andrew Jackson was a wealthy slave-owning mastermind of Indigenous genocide. An undeniably terrible person. Yet Seattle still has a major thoroughfare named after him and it’s time for that to change. A #PresidentsDay thread and call to action.
In case there’s any doubt in your minds, here’s a quick (and not at all comprehensive) lesson on Why Andrew Jackson was Bad.
As a seasoned general he invaded Spanish Florida to chase down fugitive slaves and terrorize Indigenous peoples, sparking the first Seminole war. “His actions were a study in flagrant disobedience, gross inequality and premeditated ruthlessness,” writes Bertram Wyatt-Brown.
