![]() ![]() ![]() In “They Called Us Enemy,” his graphic memoir, Takei has found a powerful way to deliver his message. He seems determined to jolt the rest of us out of our apathy and make us understand. authorities and sent to internment camps during World War II, knows all too well how that feels. After all, we can turn off the set without actually being compelled to contemplate the plight of being imprisoned at a tender age in a strange, harsh place, at the mercy of forces that we don’t really understand.īut former “Star Trek” actor George Takei, who as a child was one of 120,000 Japanese Americans rounded up from their homes by U.S. In today’s America, we’ve seen the television images of migrant children in cages so many times that it’s all too easy to develop compassion fatigue. ![]()
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