Extra credit documentary review
This documentary "Then They Came for Us" had on-hand accounts of around 120,000 Japanese Americans who had been sent to internment camps in the 40s.
The film goes in depth about how horrible this event was and how these people were incarcerated because they "looked like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor".
But those who ordered the internments never found any viable evidence that they were actually spies or conpirators, but were actually a mix of "Buddhis monks, Japanese school teachers, and community leaders", rather simple non-threatening folk.
The film then tied this issue of people being forced out of their homes and their lives into the recent Muslim travel ban and how they are seeing a lot of the similar paralels again, also the same kind of racism and discrimination.
It then followed by talking about how important it is to know history so that it isn't deemed to repeat itself again.
The film also showcased a number of photos from photographers Dorothea Lange and Ansel Adams.
Both were hired by the government to document these camps but their photos were not made public until recently.
Being the 75th anniversary, the film has picked an appropriate time to remind and inform those of this significant time in history.
The film goes in depth about how horrible this event was and how these people were incarcerated because they "looked like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor".
But those who ordered the internments never found any viable evidence that they were actually spies or conpirators, but were actually a mix of "Buddhis monks, Japanese school teachers, and community leaders", rather simple non-threatening folk.
The film then tied this issue of people being forced out of their homes and their lives into the recent Muslim travel ban and how they are seeing a lot of the similar paralels again, also the same kind of racism and discrimination.
It then followed by talking about how important it is to know history so that it isn't deemed to repeat itself again.
The film also showcased a number of photos from photographers Dorothea Lange and Ansel Adams.
Both were hired by the government to document these camps but their photos were not made public until recently.
Being the 75th anniversary, the film has picked an appropriate time to remind and inform those of this significant time in history.
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