In 1941, two-thirds of the agricultural stalls at Pike Place Market were run by Japanese Americans. Today there are none. Meanwhile, the U.S. military is quietly erasing race from the internet.
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.
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.
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.
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!)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!)
I watched the movie version as a kid, maybe it’s time to revisit and read the book!
Thanks for this
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.
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.
I hope so too.
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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