{"id":29316,"date":"2020-02-18T16:28:36","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T16:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/colorlines.madeostudio.com\/article\/california-officially-apologize-japanese-americans\/"},"modified":"2020-02-18T16:28:36","modified_gmt":"2020-02-18T16:28:36","slug":"california-officially-apologize-japanese-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/colorlines.com\/article\/california-officially-apologize-japanese-americans\/","title":{"rendered":"California to Officially Apologize to Japanese Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n By N. Jamiyla Chisholm<\/span> Feb 18, 2020<\/span>\n <\/p>\n <\/div>\n

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On February 20, 76 years after the United States incarcerated the first of more than 120,000 Japanese Americans in concentration camps, California will approve a bill that formally apologizes for its participation, the <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Los Angeles Times<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a> reports. The <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>National Park Service<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a> called the incident \u201cthe largest single forced relocation in U.S. history.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Introduced by assembly member <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Al Muratsuchi<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a> (D-Torrance) and co-authored with six others, bill <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>HR 77<\/span><\/span><\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a> calls out the executive order, signed by then-President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, for creating \u201ca great human cost of abandoned homes, businesses, farms, careers, professional advancements, disruption to family life and public humiliation.\u201d It also includes the racist legislation that led to the February 19, 1942, order, including the California Alien Land Law of 1913<\/a>. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cGiven recent national events, it is all the more important to learn from the mistakes of the past and to ensure that such an assault on freedom will never again happen to any community in the United States,\u201d the authors wrote in the <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>bill<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Assembly Speaker <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Anthony Rendon<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a> (D-Lakewood), one of the authors, said the bill is a way to put action behind words. \u201cWe so often talk about our need to not repeat mistakes of the past. The first step in doing so is making sure we acknowledge wrongs,\u201d Rendon told the <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Los Angeles Times<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>. \u201cWe owe it to those who suffered by acknowledging their mistreatments but also to educate our future generations so history does not repeat itself.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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The bill is expected to pass with support from Governor <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Gavin Newsom<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
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\n Archive<\/a>Asian American and Pacific Islanders<\/a>California State Assembly<\/a>History<\/a>Internment Camps<\/a>Japanese American<\/a>World War II<\/a> <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The state is poised to own up to the role it played in forcing more than 120,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry into internment camps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29317,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_gspb_post_css":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[16402,1525,2797,16415,7132,7395,16181],"article-type":[],"topic-meta":[],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorlines.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29316"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorlines.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorlines.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlines.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlines.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/colorlines.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlines.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorlines.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlines.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29316"},{"taxonomy":"article-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlines.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article-type?post=29316"},{"taxonomy":"topic-meta","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlines.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic-meta?post=29316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}