The experience traumatizes Takei into the present. “We were born here, raised here, and educated here. “Suddenly we were the enemy because we looked like people who bombed Pearl Harbor,” he said. On top of the degrading treatment, they were branded as enemies of the US despite being US citizens. With a straight face and somber tone, Takei shared how his family were stripped of their home and possessions and were shipped across the country from Los Angeles to a camp in Arkansas. Takei’s tone changed, however, as he began to describe a childhood spent in internment camps for Japanese Americans during World War II-an experience that he details in his new YA graphic novel, They Called Us Enemy. “I feel like I’m at a Star Trek convention,” he said in his trademark baritone, before laughing heartily. Sulu in the cult-classic TV show Star Trek and later in life as an activist and social media celebrity, began his talk Monday morning at the American Library Association’s 2019 Annual Conference and Exhibition in Washington, D.C., with remarks on the size and enthusiasm of the crowd gathered to hear him. George Takei, who first found fame in the 1960s as Lt.
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