Gigi- this opinion piece calls our war-time action "shameful" and tries to make direct comparisons to this Presidential  Administration- how you do not view this as apologist is beyond anyone.
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However; your recollections were enjoyable and only further underscore the need to remove fictitious totems of racial appropriations such a the Empty Chair Memorial, naming highways after MLK, when the man never even set foot in the state, making an official state observance for ONLY the contributions of blacks on the Alaska Highway, etc.