¡Colores!; 115; The Japanese-American Experience In New Mexico

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to be human it's very serious many japanese americans have outstanding

careers in public service business and the arts as a group and as individuals they have shown legendary heroism in our wars the record of the japanese american is one that americans of every political stripes can truly appreciate yet during world war two by order of president franklin d roosevelt thousands of american citizens of japanese descent were summarily rounded up and placed in concentration camps throughout the west including new mexico they were imprisoned without trial families were broken businesses and homes were lost during the hysteria of those years most of us supported the decisions about the years to incarcerate japanese americans yet not a single case of collaboration with japan by any of these americans and they were americans was ever shown randolph should bite of albuquerque is sign say a third generation japanese american his father like many other americans want the germans in the second world war and his grandfather roy should buy that was one of a group of immigrants who

were to the navajo and demarco coal mines near gallup from the turn of the century until the depression and making it rejected a settlement be out there in the ventricle of new mexico two hundred and said if anyone was in valencia county the only unfortunate part is i try to do some research and all the people wore button partially around the turn of the century or in the nineteen twenties a natural one day a fire like destroy the records of your senses center in washington dc how by by nineteen hundred the population centers or going to county disappear first prominent japanese communities actually from iowa hometown of the arguments for an area of japanese people running towards ceo coal mines actor oppose a scandal involving some chinese coworkers so still making manual labor imported japanese workers

and then they can barely started out as farmers in the water is the reason wait until the lawsuit isn't the police was the mid nineteen sixties or now is your retirement from his profession as a year to live with its hard life you don't always get the years but you have a lot of battles along with them and to me you've got long hours that they know these kids with a good education i think they can do better hershey anymore when i grew up he was a kid who uses those playboy wealthier kids and agendas that we knew he had won the amount of water but because of his personality and he is such a humble person we have a very thin

you are and the next step in our positions they cross the yellow river and it's also sort of a moment one thousand washington squad leader at the four rifleman touched my squad then now we're becoming overall and so i call my squad to pull back and go back to the rear where the company might be regrouping to all while they didn't cover their with drones figure until our own artillery started showing that my position when i felt it was time to get out

no remnant called in this debate for a five minute you're laid down their hat in the formula interpret songs up to me and tells me to get out here my prisoner in lovely new policy more unusual march two so it shows the japanese american citizens way to their ears so taussig whatever rose airtight asian and in particular anti japanese legislation in place for things that to citizenship naturalization and basically smoked as a person who's definitely an american and therefore japanese americans were you know indeed americans about a former enemy robert column was the director of the war relocation

administration and the final years of the war he worked hard to help the internees reestablish themselves with new jobs and homes was an internee at the heartland wyoming camp she helped robber with his work they were married in nineteen seventy eight both for the second time nineteen twenty four new law immigration lawyer who showed us what showed them a permit new immigration will only person who isn't eligible for citizenship anniversary of eligible for services show was one was not one and there was a great deal of this kind of discrimination many of those who have graduated from universities or stole ocean front what

else the old original woman will exactly what my father was reverend us apart or young mother and he was the minister of the sun as a coke or church we should end of march twenty fourteen to us are thinking and they put handcuffs on him and took him away just as he was all the raggedy clothes and my mother really sat down and cried and never forgave the fbi my family which is considerable buildup to buses i mean these are cousins and nephews and uncles and whatnot we go the team buses and were taken to santa anita which course it but ngos who knows a race track some of them went back and say well i didn't see biscuits so tall when they make it about it but i'm glad i didn't

live in the stalls as i understand this smell of them and there came out very strongly on occasion he listed first took place called chop are in california chairman jail and then from there a dealership too large for new mexico we spent the time and then from there he ended up in santa fe we're where the national cemetery is not too far from the church of the time from march nineteen forty two until the end of the war about two thousand men all first generation emigres or he say we're can find at a camp in santa fe new mexico this was one there are two camps had minister by the department of justice for those the government had decided were dangerous enemy aliens this is fresh tomatoes father a shinto minister was interned in santa fe because he was an influential community leader but he was also held because another ministry his church had happened to make a long distance phone call to

tokyo on december six nineteen forty one my father he served as an eye hospital orderly and power because he was a religious person he felt that that was probably the best he could do to help others there used to be true trend court today all loaded with japanese americans are japanese nationals all the training we really didn't know where they were hidden we were such a different path compared to most towns in america being rewritten mix gration would go along with each other well and now i could really feel that much purchase and i'd really didn't feel that until i left

dell what happened to the japanese population over to violently bowl of rice well in the fourteenth amendment and probably fuel amendments but it still sits is constitutional in the annals of this country even though it is against every tradition of this great nation and unfortunate says it like a time bomb waiting for some other poor group i was in new york city working on the relocation of people from most other of them i remember a press conference you know one of the records of those blue new york times of the fleas with or so bad and while we are by violence all to follow baseball who

are incarcerated and two so they are mayors that this sam year the top brass come through the concentration camp and gives a speech on the american which you got to move forward you've got a line for you hearing a concentration camp and they're giving or even apply in speaking through tears and americans didn't know anyone go back to california the group that the wall is their own were later dropped that for forty seven jumbo same service so where are you us true that with primaries him from forming the japanese american unit to show to prove to the public

that they were just a low number of it they were particularly heroic young be relief lovely texas battalion those surrounding bernard baumohl abolish the state of texas for its legislature made the members of the plane for a forty seven other factions and one weekend avoids this legislation now i'm not only judiciary committee it was more healthful were congressmen gossip from texas it was because there was no reason to citizenship happen this is

so called shield cooley and it's a doll represented by young girl that yeah it carries water from the city and about pets and then they you make salt from the seawater this particular dollar represents a story where noble maintains your listener believe she and dan has a love affair with this girl and you know this girl up considers it a service to that and honor to on the his lover then of course he had just goes on his way but the idea that of course there is this kind of service he's expect he expects to be seen i think and two american get like a store here we were brought up to be

american and he didn't even talk to us about her we really grew up not knowing too much about japan that we were taught that we were to be proud of being a japanese but that that we had a cultural heritage i was for laziness but he's actively thinking at the seventh and you used to have a ceiling fan base i was in december a good reason and his name every night and trying to influence i think he thinks is on point when you really coming

americans you're not the country of japan is your father country but this country nurtures she'll and is giving everything to you so you owe your loyalty and allegiance to america and this is what he but they always thought is if you're growing i don't think he consciously that either one of you consciously tried to teach us in the japanese culture it may have come to see the down on this point as my father i would think of all of noodles steaming pot noodles and late piece of this black sea weekend that he drop in a giant pit and then they heeded that would make the a kind of cloud over and he said that's the young moon shining behind a cloud in the midnight sky before my mother to be or not to treat lawyers never to shave your family will bring dishonor to try to lead a clean water

and clean as possible you always changing laws to make sure you've heard of and says is try to remember every year we would celebrate improve birthday the younger girls were put on a japanese parents they would now have chemo after war to they just pop celebrated improve brain to do a good job the fans want us to learn the language but though week we did this what cell with no but we didn't know when she if a large part of our health that actually i didn't speak japanese and jobs out of high school we were race and one old english spoken i'm larry tye japanese when i was working in the wholesale market as a bookkeeper and i'd hear them in

this same things in japanese second home and asked my mother about those words meant and she turned several shades of proportion say oh my that's know a language for a woman to be using heat seeking vengeance in the proper way to say it is such an uncertain it's very interesting point because i think there's an old saying that these disease and west is west and of the twain shall meet i think that the future of the world to a large degree was dependent upon their homes and their ability to speak both english and yet nice convey understand live with their words the japanese love can say things were very few words being bilingual has opened many many donors are

next week profiling of new mexican artist frank mccullagh he's been painting since he was a child resurgence of interest that change like him over the years and now his focus is on abstract southwestern landscapes it's b i'm in albuquerque i was going down

and rate the las vegas but mainly mein albuquerque earning my work i think the us in many ways an abstract landscapes from the area from the southwest and just like an atmosphere of the southwest particularly in mexico and getting him and

calls to live a little watercolor i did nineteen forty one and i'm born in nineteen thirty six hours eleven years old when i did that and my i think my parents were we're very sensitive to the situation they put him in the private lessons that away and teachers because you know you inhabit and in the schools or in the high schools there the summer then up as a recession which means a voice from all time adjusting back to painting again when i painted that picture that's correct their cars from alice's looking glass i think that's an interesting painting his start as a problem once the end of the first and last much longer

that represents the three stages of abstraction sudden that comes to generation to places some of them specifically new mexico state and traps and trips in stitches them on and then the other ones come more from the inside of my pain

goes in two directions now get off on the abstract side and then again in one euro i don't have to worry about being part of any kind of movement or have to worry about their top pitcher might match up with something on a certain asian art museum that that that you just know the content with without with was working in your own no fire universe and undone undone in and making your area quiet time or contributions sense and i think there were there should be a place for that nice

bean as though they reach everyone he's asked the question you know why didn't they have an answer basically go make some fair expression that only you can make and a handgun and no one else can manipulate him and in your time and place than its last forever money

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