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The county supervisors vote unanimously to repeal the 70-year-old
resolution.

六月 7, 2012

Los Angeles County supervisors voted unanimously Wednesday to rescind a
70-year-old resolution calling for the internment of Japanese Americans during
World War II.

备案:
An earlier version of this article said the
supervisors voted on the issue Tuesday; the vote was Wednesday.

一月 1942, the then-county supervisors unanimously urged President
Franklin D. Roosevelt to proceed with the internment of Japanese
Americans.

“Because Japanese aliens are a potential source of danger to
our security, it would be advisable for the Federal government to transfer them
from Pacific Coast areas,” their resolution read.

The resolution was sent
to the president, California’s U.S. senators, Los Angeles area members of
Congress and the FBI.

主管马克里德利-托马斯, who wrote the motion
to rescind, called the resolution an “assault on the U.S.
Constitution.”

Roosevelt issued Order 9066 in February 1942, and nearly 120,000 Japanese Americans were held in camps for several years. Thousands of people of German and Italian descent were also interned.

Ridley-Thomas’
motion addressed only the detainment of Japanese Americans because the original
motion did not address other nationalities.

Supervisor Don Knabe said
people often assume he is Japanese because of his last name, but he is actually
of German descent. He said he recieved threatening phone calls telling him to
“go home” after voting to give a contract to a Japanese company.

“这是
so poignant to me,” 他说：. “I am just so proud to be part of this action
today.”

Actor George Takei, who was born in Los Angeles and portrayed
Hikaru Sulu in the original Star Trek television series and movies, 作证
about seeing U.S. soldiers approach his home with drawn bayonets and taking his
family to the Santa Anita racetrack in Arcadia, where they spent several months
living in a horse stall. His family was later transferred to a camp in
阿肯色州.

“My mother remembers it as the most degrading, humiliating
experience of her life,” 他说：.

Several other Japanese Americans
testified about their families’ experiences during internment, including William
T Fujioka, the county’s chief executive.

The normally deliberate Fujioka
choked up when recalling how his grandfather was interned and how his father did
not finish his education at UC Berkeley and fought in the war.

Takei said
the motion would be an important reminder to future generations.

“We can
face the future having extracted important lessons from our democracy,” 他
说：.

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