In the following three interviews actor George Takei talks about life, his time in internment camps as a child and the phenomenon behind “Star Trek”.
From CBS News, actor and activist George Takei revisits the site of the Arkansas internment camp where, at age five, he and his family were relocated with other Japanese-Americans at the start of World War II.
Last year George Takei recorded a particularly poignant video supporting President Obama’s reelection and encouraging voter registration.
The ad, which encourages Asian-Americans to vote for Pres. Obama, begins with him recalling how his family was placed in an internment camp during World War II.
“There is a memory seared into my brain when I was five years old. It was the spring of 1942 when soldiers came marching up our driveway. Stomped up the front porch and banged on the door and ordered my family out of our home. We were in prison behind barbed wire fences for four years for the duration of the war, simply because we happened to look like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor.
We were American citizens. Yet, because of who we were, what we looked like, we were imprisoned without due process.”
CNN’s Jonathan Mann interviews George Takei, who talks about his life and being in internment camps as a child. More from CNN at http://www.cnn.com/.
CNN’s Jonathan Mann interviews actor George Takei, who talks about the phenomenon behind “Star Trek”. More from CNN at http://www.cnn.com/.
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