Duckworth on Zinke's improper use of Japanese: Racism is not ok

This is a few days old, but I missed it with so much news covering the WH.




Duckworth on Zinke's improper use of Japanese: ‘Racism is not ok’



http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/378748-duckworth-on-zinke-improper-use-of-japanese-racism-is-not-ok
By Max Greenwood - 03/16/18 07:34 AM EDT


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Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) offered a condemnation of racism for Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke on Thursday after he responded in Japanese to a lawmaker's question about funding historical sites memorializing Japanese internment camps.

"Nope. Racism is not ok," Duckworth tweeted, posting a news article about the exchange between Zinke and Rep. Colleen Hanabusa (D-Hawaii)..................

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

A Member Of Trump’s Cabinet Actually Said “Konnichiwa” When Asked About Japanese Internment Camps


https://www.buzzfeed.com/zahrahirji/zinke-japanese-confinement-konnichiwa?utm_term=.rflGy2Vn1#.faqD5keGW

When asked whether the US would keep giving grants for preserving the history of Japanese-American confinement, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke responded with a Japanese greeting, “Konnichiwa.”


Posted on March 15, 2018, at 6:44 p.m.


Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke responded in Japanese to a Hawaii lawmaker’s question about grants to preserve the history of Japanese-American confinement in World War II.

The awkward exchange occurred during a House budget hearing for the Interior Department. Rep. Colleen Hanabusa, a Democrat from Hawaii, asked Zinke about the fate of a program called the Japanese American Confinement Sites Grant, which was funded in 2017 and president has proposed to cut in 2018.
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She wasn’t alone. “I was outraged,” said Karen Korematsu, founder and executive director of the Fred T. Korematsu Institute, which has been funded by the grant program in question, “first by Secretary Zinke’s disrespect to Rep. Hanabusa and second to his ignorance to teaching the lessons of American history.”
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