Political Quotes

“on a hilltop in Santa Fe, New Mexico, there is an interpretive plaque on a boulder. It stands where the government locked up thousands of Japanese as so-called enemy aliens. My great-grandfather, my GG, was one of them. He was locked behind barbed wire while his son, my grandfather, joined the Military Intelligence Service in service to a country that saw him as the enemy. That small stone marker is all that remains to tell their story. Today, the Trump administration is removing national park signage that tells the truth about slavery, the genocide of indigenous Americans, and the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. In Nazi Germany, it started with burning books. In the USSR, they erased people from photographs. In North Korea, they deleted political leaders from online archives. Today, in the United States, quite ironically, the Trump administration calls it removing negative information about past or living Americans. What happens when they decide the story of my GG is too negative to remember? What happens when they want to whitewash history and remove the service and sacrifice of our communities of color? In March 2025, the U.S. Army removed its web page honoring the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, the all-nisei unit that became one of the most decorated in American military history. That is not a simple edit. It is not an accident. It is not an oversight.”