Review: They Called Us Enemy

They Called Us Enemy by George Takei
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

At this juncture in American history, where we have immigrant children warehoused after being removed from their parents, and detention camps all over on our southern border, it seems a very timely moment to discuss "Otherness" and it's history in America. George Takei's They Called Us Enemy explores just how quickly that Otherness can be applied to people who look different, even if they are born or naturalized Americans. Giving us the story of one of America's more shameful moments, Takei tells of his family's internment at the Rohwer and Tule Lake camps during WWII. While there were some heroes in his story (Quaker Herbert Nicholson of Vroman's Bookstore in Pasadena, and San Francisco lawyer Wayne Collins), Enemy paints a poignant and often painful picture of the lives of both the children who lived in camps and the adults who lost their dignity and livelihoods.

We really need this book at this point in our history, Readers. It's for our children and for all of us adults.

"Justice grows out of our recognition of ourselves in each other... That my liberty depends on you being free, too." ~ President Barack Obama

I received a Digital Review Copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. I also bought a copy of this graphic novel.

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