As quickly as Becker can have the texture of the room change from fairy lights to an anxiety inducing swirl pattern, everything changes for the Takeis and Japanese American families like them. Forced to leave his home with his family when he was four years old, Takei with co-writers Justin Eisinger and Steven Scott, artist Harmony Becker, and letterer Gilberto Lazcano, use a Ted Talk he gave in 2014 to frame the story of the time he spent in Japanese internment camps as a child.įrom “Silent Night,” to a radio announcer forecasting war, Takei and his family were decorating their Christmas tree when the news about Pearl Harbor first hit. George Takei’s graphic memoir, They Called Us Enemy, is a reminder of what is lost when a few paragraphs are allowed to be the final word on a subject that goes much deeper.
For every blanket statement you can make, about how important it is that more voices be involved in the telling of history, the truth of it never hits harder than when you see what that looks like.
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