Follow up…
…Eric is wrong. The creator is German.
Eugen Rochko, Russian national who moved to Germany at age 11.
That’s his official story.
It’s not the most salient fact, but it sure is interesting. Not sure that’s who I want “saving” American discourse at this point.
If you’re talking about the WW2 Japanese internment camps in the US, that was largely kicked off so the white agriculture businesses could steal land from Japanese farmers.
Bitter Harvest - Washington Post
The ensuing cluster fuck, as whites couldn’t maintain the same output as the Japanese farmers, was why we ended up needing Victory Gardens.
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