I think we learn more from those times in our history where we stumbled as a democracy than we learn from the glorious chapters.
GEORGE TAKEII spent my boyhood behind the barbed wire fences of American internment camps and that part of my life is something that I wanted to share with more people.
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Social media is like ancient Egypt: writing things on walls and worshiping cats.
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But when we came out of camp, that’s when I first realized that being in camp, that being Japanese-American, was something shameful.
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As the old saying goes, I was simply looking for fan love, in Alderaan places.
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We must remind ourselves that an assault on any one of our liberties and freedoms is an assault on all.
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I have two passions in my life. One is to raise the awareness of the internment of Japanese-American citizens. My other passion is the theater.
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I’m a civic busybody and I’ve been blessed with an active career.
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Pioneering is never done in front of cheerleaders urging on a roaring grandstand of popular approval.
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I spent my boyhood behind the barbed wire fences of American internment camps and that part of my life is something that I wanted to share with more people.
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My memories of camp – I was four years old to eight years old – they’re fond memories.
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You know, I grew up in two American internment camps, and at that time I was very young.
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Plays close, movies wrap and TV series eventually get cancelled, and we were cancelled in three season.
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Well, it gives, certainly to my father, who is the one that suffered the most in our family, and understanding of how the ideals of a country are only as good as the people who give it flesh and blood.
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Confidence in the human capacity for problem solving, for invention, for innovation.
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Well, the whole history of Star Trek is the market demand.
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We have to be vigilant about how the Trump administration may try to divide us from each other.
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This is supposed to be a participatory democracy and if we’re not in there participating then the people that will manipulate and exploit the system will step in there.
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The starship Enterprise was a metaphor starship Earth, and the vision was that the strength of this starship lay in its diversity.
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Unfriending me when I didn’t even know we were friends? It’s like breaking wind when you’re home alone. If I can’t smell you, knock yourself out.
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Life is too short not to order the bacon dessert.
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To do theater you need to block off a hunk of time.
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We need to take our passion and effect real change at the local, state, and federal levels, to help elect progressive leaders, and to stem the tide of division, fear and scapegoating.
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STAR TREK is a show that had a vision about a future that was positive.
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I’ve run the marathon several times, so I definitely don’t look like the Great Ancestor!
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Yes, I remember the barbed wire and the guard towers and the machine guns, but they became part of my normal landscape. What would be abnormal in normal times became my normality in camp.
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Facebook itself has an interest in having great content so that its users keep coming back.
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Do your duty as an American, and as a citizen of the galaxy… Vote!
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