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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,212 posts)
Sun Jun 24, 2018, 02:51 PM Jun 2018

George Takei: Family separations 'a new low in American history'

Actor George Takei said Sunday he believes the Trump administration’s practice of separating migrant families at the border represents a “new low” in American history.

Takei, who was detained with his family during World War II at Japanese internment camps, said on CNN’s “Reliable Sources” that he fears history is repeating itself.

“It is repeating itself, but it has gone to a new low with Donald Trump. When we were incarcerated, our families were intact. My parents were with me,” he said.

“But in this case, it’s come to a chilling low where babies are torn away from their mothers and placed in separate internment camps,” he added.

http://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/393861-george-takei-family-separations-a-new-low-in-american-history

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George Takei: Family separations 'a new low in American history' (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 2018 OP
I'm burned out. Solly Mack Jun 2018 #1
Ask the native Americans and African-Americans malaise Jun 2018 #2
No, Uncle George, we have returned to an old low. GoCubsGo Jun 2018 #3

Solly Mack

(90,787 posts)
1. I'm burned out.
Sun Jun 24, 2018, 02:55 PM
Jun 2018

Most days the most I can work up is sardonic shittery.

Sure, I might cry myself to sleep but I wake up with sheer loathing.

malaise

(269,172 posts)
2. Ask the native Americans and African-Americans
Sun Jun 24, 2018, 02:55 PM
Jun 2018

Ask the women aka 'bad girls' who were single and got pregnant. Most were state sponsored sometimes with help from established Christian religions.

GoCubsGo

(32,094 posts)
3. No, Uncle George, we have returned to an old low.
Sun Jun 24, 2018, 02:59 PM
Jun 2018

This kind of thing was done to slave families. It was done to Native American families. Maybe there weren't "internment camps,:" but "Indian" schools and plantations, where they became slave labor, were not any better fates.

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