Very appropriate Google Doodle today... Fred Korematsu, American civil rights activist.

[hunter]

Today Google’s US homepage is celebrating Fred Toyosaburo Korematsu, civil rights activist and survivor of the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. January 30th, 2017 would have been his 98th birthday and is officially recognized as Fred Korematsu Day in California, Hawaii, Virginia and Florida.

A son of Japanese immigrant parents, Korematsu was born and raised in Oakland, California. After the U.S. entered WWII, he tried to enlist in the U.S. National Guard and Coast Guard, but was turned away due to his ethnicity.

He was 23 years old and working as a foreman in his hometown when Executive Order 9066 was signed in 1942 by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The order sent more than 115,000 people of Japanese descent living in the United States to incarceration.

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https://www.google.com/doodles/fred-korematsus-98th-birthday

Do you think Google is sending a message to the Trump administration? I do.

On of my grandfathers was a pacifist, and a conscientious objector during World War II. Given a choice of prison or building and repairing ships for the Merchant Marine, he chose to work in the shipyards.

At one point he was beaten up by the police for protesting the internment of his Japanese neighbors.

Many of his neighbors never returned, their property was simply stolen or forcibly sold at far less than market value to unscrupulous people.

[Doreen]

1. I see that happening again with not just Muslims but our

Latino people also and maybe others. I am afraid it is going to happen on a wider scale.