Japanese Internment

To Boldly Go Where No Californians Have Gone Before

Tom Gregory | Posted 09.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: Marriage, Proposition 8, Divorce, Religious Fundamentalism, Same Sex Marriage, George Takei, Brad Altman, Japanese Internment, Separation of Church and State, Star Trek, Same-Sex Marriage, Evangelicals, Politics News
Tom Gregory

Now that he has the legal right to marry, actor George Takei sat down with me enthusiastically gushing about his upcoming nuptials to his partner of twenty-one years, Brad Altman.

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Batman (1943): Rounding Up the Shifty-Eyed Japs

Erik Lundegaard | Posted 07.08.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Movie Reviews, Robin, Douglas Croft, Movie Serials, Japanese Internment, Lewis Wilson, World War II, Batman, Movies, Japan, Entertainment News
Erik Lundegaard

Given Pearl Harbor, and Hollywood's track record with stereotypes before Pearl Harbor, the racism towards Japanese people in 1943's Batman serial is unsurprising.

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Should The Census Count Illegal Immigrants?

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.03.2007 | Politics

Read More: Census, 1890 Census, House of Representatives, Redistricting, Constitution, Three-Fifths, US Census, Illegal Immigration, Immigration, Apportionment, Japanese Internment, Slave, Fourteenth Amendment, Indian, Hollerith, Ibm, Politics News
Chris Weigant

Maybe we'll wind up counting illegal immigrants as the framers of the Constitution may have intended: as three-fifths of a person.

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