George Takei and his family spent four years behind barbed wire in internment camps. 'It was the internment...that made me the activist that I am,' he says.
says he’s determined to keep talking about the imprisonment of his family and 120,000 other Japanese Americans during World War II because he wants a new generation to know what happened and fight similar injustices today.
Takei and his family were shipped to internment camps in Arkansas and Northern California, spending four years behind barbed wire. His new graphic memoir, “,” is told through the eyes of a child growing up incarcerated, detailing the day-to-day hardships and humiliating experiences of the camps. When an audience member asked what it’s going to take for history to stop repeating itself, Takei echoed his father: participation.
He’s also a force on social media. Takei attributes his 2.9 million followers on Twitter to his tongue-in-cheek approach to politics. He uses the networking platform to advocate for the LGBTQ community, refugees detained on the U.S. southern border, and other causes. Actor Derek Mio, who costars with George Takei in"The Terror: Infamy" on AMC, speaks at the book club event.Actor Derek Mio, who stars with Takei in “The Terror: Infamy,” read a passage in which “Star Trek” creator Gene Roddenberry offers Takei his role, impersonating Takei’s signature cadence.
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