"And Then They Came for Us" w/ Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange photos: WW-II Japanese Internment
[ABA 'Silver Gavel' Award--2018] Finally, a near-complete dossier of the UnConstitutional internment via Race.
Here shown on PBS, presumably everywhere.
(Pretty good timing, I wot--The Orange Menace would do such in a Trice. If We Let Him. And, 'we' might -->?
Kudoes, P.B.S. (why isn't it on The Meeja? {rhetorical}.
Whatever lore you have re that disgusting Four and a Half Years in concentration camps in the Worst-possible locales, do see this 1 hr. masterpiece. The disgust is heightened of course by the very FACT that: we are near-to a State-of-such alien-kind: as to see a Reprise.
I vividly recall the posters, indistinguishable from the Nazi-equivalents re Jews (though I knew nothing of that, as a tyke.) Recall the visceral-HATE-speech re "The Japs" essentially all-around, nor did I ever overhear? an ""adult"" make any remark even suggesting that "those folks in the Camps are 'American Citizens''/let alone a mention of 'the Constitution'. Unwittingly and prematurely: I was seeing what sort of people I would grow up amidst.
[Tanforan/a horse stable, was just down the road from San Mateo CA] where I was for a couple years. You'll see clear pix of that place @1 family-per-STALL, as they built the shacks to hold them for 4.5 years.
..That the dis-US is NO BETTER today--however the Russian-roulette of 11/2020 turns out--the final-nail has already been driven into that coffin,
RIP American-fantasy: you were full-of-shit from the beginning.
So at least That's Settled. Law.
Carrion. Go see the PIx of that.(Lovely that both Adams and Lange made sure to shoot memorable human-portraits of the victims--some of those locked-up/then in embarrassment--until long after the perps could be confronted/publicly. 'Cousre not just 'Muricans ever-Shall CYA aka Eternal vigilance, now at nanosecond speed.
Here shown on PBS, presumably everywhere.
(Pretty good timing, I wot--The Orange Menace would do such in a Trice. If We Let Him. And, 'we' might -->?
Kudoes, P.B.S. (why isn't it on The Meeja? {rhetorical}.
Whatever lore you have re that disgusting Four and a Half Years in concentration camps in the Worst-possible locales, do see this 1 hr. masterpiece. The disgust is heightened of course by the very FACT that: we are near-to a State-of-such alien-kind: as to see a Reprise.
I vividly recall the posters, indistinguishable from the Nazi-equivalents re Jews (though I knew nothing of that, as a tyke.) Recall the visceral-HATE-speech re "The Japs" essentially all-around, nor did I ever overhear? an ""adult"" make any remark even suggesting that "those folks in the Camps are 'American Citizens''/let alone a mention of 'the Constitution'. Unwittingly and prematurely: I was seeing what sort of people I would grow up amidst.
[Tanforan/a horse stable, was just down the road from San Mateo CA] where I was for a couple years. You'll see clear pix of that place @1 family-per-STALL, as they built the shacks to hold them for 4.5 years.
..That the dis-US is NO BETTER today--however the Russian-roulette of 11/2020 turns out--the final-nail has already been driven into that coffin,
RIP American-fantasy: you were full-of-shit from the beginning.
So at least That's Settled. Law.
Carrion. Go see the PIx of that.(Lovely that both Adams and Lange made sure to shoot memorable human-portraits of the victims--some of those locked-up/then in embarrassment--until long after the perps could be confronted/publicly. 'Cousre not just 'Muricans ever-Shall CYA aka Eternal vigilance, now at nanosecond speed.
