Giving Democracy Meaning: With George Takei [Rebroadcast]

The Michael Steele Podcast

The Bulwark

Politics, Government, History, News

4.8 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Note: This episode was originally released in January 2022.

Michael speaks with George Takei about his American journey, from living in a U.S concentration camp as a child, to his interest in democracy as a teenager and his activism as an adult. The pair discuss George Takei's graphic memoir, "They Called Us Enemy," the importance of educating young Japanese-Americans about their history, and how science fiction often reflects our humanity and ability to advance as a society.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody I am so excited because we're about to go where we have not gone before.
0:06.3	Okay, yeah, you get the Star Trek reference because we got George Ticke,
0:11.3	Sulu joining the podcast.
0:14.0	Yes, I'm so excited to have Mr. K on board.
0:16.8	He is a social justice activist, a social media
0:20.0	superstar Grammy-nominated recording artist, New York Times best-selling author. a
0:23.4	superstar Grammy nominated recording artist, New York Times best selling author and a
0:25.7	pioneer actor. A lot of people don't realize this brother's been doing this for 60
0:30.8	years in in both TV and films, but he stepped away from all of that to tell his very
0:40.1	personal journey, a story about growing up in a US internment camp during
0:45.8	World War II at the end of World War II along with 120,000 other Japanese
0:51.6	Americans. The book is They Call Us Enemy. The author is none other than George
0:56.9	Ticke, and we're about to get into it on the Michael Steele podcast.
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