I feel as if history is just repeating itself more and more, the situation she is mentioning feels all to familiar and this is again, my first time hearing of anything pertaining to this. In early 2021 we had a run for our money with the president who was in office, he suggested that a wall be built between Mexico and the United States to keep immigrants out. In my opinions these concentration camps can be equal to the wall he was trying to build and the “political prisoners” can be equal to the immigrants he was trying ever so hard to keep away.

This here reminds me of how the media and news outlets portray the same crime committed by two different races. In the media when a white man commits a crime such as for example, selling drugs, the headline makes them appear to be innocent or even the photo used is a good photo of them, showing them in a guiltless light. On the other hand whenever we read about a POC in the news for committing a crime they are immediately painted as the guilty, dangerous criminal with a mugshot with a rude and stereotypical headline. This specific part in the reading bothered me a bit because it triggered how things we learn or read about are or can be (for lack of a better word) bullcrap.

This term is actually very interesting and insightful because it is also my first time seeing or hearing a person of Japanese descent/ancestry be referred to as a person of the Nikkei community. I believe that there are also many other people like me who have never heard the term and I hope that they can become more educated =, like myself, on topics that don’t just relate to them or that they don’t just follow along with stereotypes.

Are we surprised? Things have been sugar coated for as long as humans have known how to speak, there are more secrets than we will ever know and they only tell us what THEY feel we need to know and they still tend to lie even then.