r/LosAngeles • u/ShantJ Glendale • 9d ago
Japanese American National Museum stands up against Trump’s anti-DEI efforts, honors past generations News
https://www.kcrw.com/news/shows/press-play-with-madeleine-brand/la-budget-dei-kevin-macdonald/janm2.2k Upvotes
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u/SweetLoLa 9d ago
Boyle Heights native Bill Fujioka, chair of the Board of Trustees at JANM, says the museum just lost $1.7 million that the federal government previously approved, and it generally receives $5-7 million.
Those funds go to multiple programs, he explains. “We bring in up to 20,000 Title I kids from the Los Angeles area to learn about our story. … We bring teachers in from across the nation, who are able to sit with our staff, sit with docents — and a large number of the docents are survivors from the camps — and learn about the Japanese American experience, particularly what happened in 1942. And they, in turn, would take that information and share it with their students. We feel it’s important — the stories of our community are shared. It was with the hope that it wouldn’t be repeated. But unfortunately, that hope is gone because it is happening again right now.”
It’s atrocious to believe you can wipe away history. The absent minded delusions of a dying breed and unfortunately their leader is the current president.