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Janis Machala's avatar

What a great piece that I will share widely. Especially poignant given the times we are going through right now. I love your writing style and the heart and soul you bring to topics.

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John Lovie's avatar

Oh, Amanda, I am so sorry.

I learned about this in England many years ago. There was a well-known movie about it a full seventy years ago. "A Bad Day at Black Rock" https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047849/ I guess it has been quietly erased from history in the interim even before the current frontal attack.

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Amanda Bullis's avatar

Thank you for sharing this movie, John, which is now on my short list to watch (after my full-on binge of The West Wing). Quiet erasure has been happening throughout our entire history as a country, we’ve just entered a new phase.

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Michelle Spencer (she/her)'s avatar

I learned about it first in the novel Snow Falling on Cedars, by Dave Gutarson (which I learn from google is often challenged or banned by school districts in both the US and Canada for profanity and sexual content. I don’t recall those being my main take aways from the book, which I read in 1994/5!)

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Amanda Bullis's avatar

I watched the movie version as a kid, maybe it’s time to revisit and read the book!

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Phayvanh Luekhamhan 🍸's avatar

Thanks for this

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LightofAwareness's avatar

Power and control over resources and people are not new. You have been given a gift. By your father being open to discover his genetic side even sacrificing his own family dynamic of a closed adoption with loving parents, it is worth knowing the truth.

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John Howard's avatar

All the deletions from government websites of the contributions of Americans with non-European ethnicities is the new equivalent of burning books. I hope the Internet Archive is vigilantly maintaining the ghosts of these fragile online stories.

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Amanda Bullis's avatar

I hope so too.

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John Lovie's avatar

Between the wars, railroad magnate Henry Huntington, after whom the Republican stronghold ofHuntington Beach, which voted to ban a pride parade, is named, built a library and a set of gardens, known collectively as The Huntington.

One of the gardens is a Japanese Garden. He studied gardens in Japan and imported the plants. For a finishing touch of authenticity, he imported a Japanese cottage and a Japanese couple to live in it.

When war broke out, they were interned.

❤️‍🩹

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