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1/ This headline 91 years ago in what is now #HuntingtonBeach

Over 500 people descended on the burial site, carting away "skulls and other relics." Thousands of years of human history were picked apart and carted away to private collections.
#NativeAmericanHeritageMonth
2/ The late 1800s Buck Ranch was in Wintersburg near .@WintersburgHB, Edwards Street and Varsity Drive. Some items are in Bowers Museum collection, but not everything is accounted for & likely in private homes.
#NativeAmericanHeritageMonth

Read more: historicwintersburg.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-pl…
3/ Early 1900s: Universe Effigy west of @WintersburgHB on Cole Ranch.
1970s: Multiple burial site 1320 ft NW of .@WintersburgHB.
Evidence of shell midden & other artifacts on endangered #HistoricWintersburg.
Significant burial remains in the Bolsa Chica Wetlands.
4/ Saving endangered open spaces like .@WintersburgHB in highly-developed Orange County is a chance to honor thousands of years of history.
Here, the Tongva lived. They were still here when mid-19th century settlers arrived. Where are they remembered?

historicwintersburg.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-pl…

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30 Oct
Zoom w/ David Inoue .@JACL_National on H.R. 1931 Japanese American Confinement Education Act, which permanently reauthorizes the Japanese American Confinement Sites preservation program.

Missing from the #California co-sponsor list?
Michelle Steel.

congress.gov/bill/117th-con…
There is an endangered #NationalTreasure .@WintersburgHB in Michelle Steel's district representing this #AAPI history.

As an OC supervisor & now as congressional rep, Steel has not acknowledged it or taken any action to save it. Crickets.

savingplaces.org/places/histori…
I will thank Young Kim for being the *only* GOP congressional rep from #California who signed on as a co-sponsor for H.R. 1931.

If you post social media about anti-AAPI hate, but don't sponsor efforts to save #AAPI history, we see you.
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28 Sep
1/ About Oka Elementary School in #HuntingtonBeach. It is connected to the history of endangered #AAPI National Treasure #HistoricWintersburg, which Steel failed to recognize or help save while OC supervisor & now as a congressional rep.

The school is named after Isojiro Oka.
2/ Isojiro Oka was arrested & taken by FBI on January 28, 1942, for the sole reason of his Japanese ancestry.

He arrived in Huntington Beach circa 1907. Isojiro Oka and Hisamatsu Tamura purchased land in Talbert (Fountain Valley) specifically to build a school.
3/ They got a building from Standard Oil, moved it to the property, & it became one of the four Japanese language schools in Orange County. He continued to contribute to schools his entire life, sharing produce grown on his farm.
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25 Sep
Leading with fear is the GOP tactic, pivoting from fear to fear, assigning blame.

When FDR proposed the WPA during the Great Depression, opposition painted it as "socialism." The reality was millions gained employment and the country benefits to this day from WPA works.
The WPA built/improved 651,000 miles of roads, 19,700 miles of water mains, 500 water treatment plants, 24,000 miles of sidewalks, 12,800 playgrounds, 24,000 miles of storm and sewer lines, 1,200 airport buildings, 226 hospitals, and 5,900+ schools.
New Deal/WPA programs contributed to national defense when the US entered WWII (roads, airports, water supplies e.g. Boulder Dam).

WPA-style projects to improve infrastructure, fire & drought management, connectivity, alternative energy = investment with lasting returns.
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14 Aug
1/ In the 1910s, disinformation pushed idea Japanese immigrants were "taking over" California. They weren't, but, Alien land laws followed.

Information collected prior to 1941 was immediately used to arrest Japanese Americans, within days, hours after the attack by Japan.
2/ In the 1980s, disinformation again pushed idea that Japanese were taking over California, buying up businesses, properties. They were big investors, but reality was the largest foreign investment was the Dutch. Nevertheless, hate was directed at Asians.
3/ In 2020, disinformation about COVID-19, hate crimes against Asians spiked. It's still happening, despite facts about who's really spreading it in US.

Census data will create reactions and responses, good and bad. We'll see if politicians recognize these are American voters.
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11 Aug
Some things we did wrong.
We did not call on Afghan Americans to provide a deeper understanding of the conflict. They lived it. The family lines and politics are complicated and stretch back generations. The US relied on same old sources.
Huge contracts awarded to unknown, sometimes brand new parties. They took advantage of cash society (no bank system for a while, handwritten receipts) and lived well in guest houses where they frequently disrespected local norms, customs. You don't win hearts & minds that way.
Building contracts were awarded to contractors from other countries, with no requirement to hire Afghans, redevelop craftsman skills, restore Afghan architecture. Kabul has a mix of Chinese, Pakistani, and other architecture, diminishing sense of place & pride of country.
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17 Jul
Regarding the "America First" rally trying to hold an event in OC, now on their 3rd or 4th venue.

There are some who don't see the connection with the use of "America First" and the klan. It is a fully calculated use of a slogan used by the klan circa 1920s-1930s.
The klan attempted to infiltrate Orange County circa 1920s, getting members elected to Anaheim city council, holding rallies, infiltrating religious organizations (cloak of morality), running for office in Huntington Beach, & in OC sheriff department.

These were not Democrats.
At the time the klan was active in Orange County in the 1920s, voter demographics were majority GOP (1920 - 71.5% Republican, 1928 - 79.35% Republican).

It is true first iteration of klan in the South were Dems. But, not by the 1920s second rising, and, not in Orange County.
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