After the veterans shared their personal stories.

The indignation didnt stop there.I was aware of the fact that I was different.

but I knew that we looked exactly like the people that bombed Pearl Harbor.Takei was well aware of the hatred that still lingered for Japanese Americans.Through the hardships that Takei endured.

(Mario Reyes/The Rafu Shimpo)By PETER YOON.Takei came out publicly in 2005.

Takei recounted his Hollywood heart-throb quickly disappearing from films after being exposed as a gay man in a magazine.

He was called a sissy and was beaten.we worry about the future of our country because of a re-energized white nationalist movement that threatens our democratic rights.

Silence em-powers abusers and wrongdoers.The pilgrimage opened with a land acknowledgement and welcome from Jeremiah Joseph of the Lone Pine Paiute Shoshone Tribe.

He also served on the California Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans.who acknowledged the Manzanar Committees critical role in the founding of the National Historic Site.