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Twelve Back Stories on George Takei. Stephen Colbert, Japanese American Internment and NO-NO-BOY

BACK STORY I- George Takei, the legendary actor from the original STAR TREK television series, was recently on THE LATE SHOW WITH STEPHEN COLBERT. He was peddling his new  children's book, about his experience in an internment camp in Arkansas, with fellow Japanese Americans, during World War II. He railed against the racism of World War II Americans, just attacked by the Imperial Japanese Navy at Pearl Harbor. Takei said he could not understand how America could be so cruel as to intern Japanese Americans as a consequence of that attack. Colbert, in self righteous agreement stayed quiet.  Obviously, Mr. Colbert does not know, or has never talked to a World War II veteran. He just sat quietly, as Takei trashed a generation, engaged in an existential war, not of their choosing. In the old days of television; before television started lecturing versus entertaining or informing,  Colbert would have had a World War II vet on( there are some, a few left), sitting next to Takei...