As part of the community, thank you.

You ddon’t think the theft of somebody’s voice and lived experiences by an outside group is racist?

The issue isn’t that it’s unrealistic. It’s that it’s having somebody who isn’t part of the internment experience speak for those who were. It’s both really bad yellow face and co-option of the right of the people to speak for themselves. This is the worst form of “allyship.”

The casting does not carry the message because it’s done on the back of the group of people’s voices have been stolen.

That still doesn’t excuse the stealing of our voices. Would you feel the same way if this were a Native American woman who story was being told by a white woman?

Making the more realistic doesn’t fix the issue of them stealing my people stories for their own purposes.

It’s not just the distraction. It’s that this is yellow face and that they are either making up a story or using a story without using a Japanese American actress. Our voices of been stolen far too frequently since our patents and grandparents came to this country, we don’t need it done to us again.

thank you for being one of the few people who realize they should have actually went to our community and asked for a real survivor to speak.

My main issue is the yellow face and that people outside of my community have taken our stories and our voices for their own purposes. Far too long we’ve been told to ignore this because somebody had “good intentions.”

As a Nisei, I find this very, very offensive. All of my parents and grandparents generation were in the camps. I have an uncle never know because he died in the camps. This is personal.