After the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, the U.S. War Relocation Authority made a decision it would soon regret.
It hired famed photographer Dorothea Lange to take pictures as 110,000 Japanese and Japanese-Americans were removed from their homes on the West Coast and interned at remote military-style camps throughout the interior.
The agency had hoped Lange's photos would depict the process as orderly and humane.

But the hundreds of photos that Lange turned over did the opposite.
She considered internment a grave injustice, and her photos depict it that way.
She captured the confused and chaotic scenes of Japanese-Americans crowding onto buses and trains, the stressed and confused looks on their faces, their shuttered businesses, the threadbare barracks that would become their homes for months or years.

💥Instead of allowing Lange to publish her photos, the government seized them.

Some of them were on display at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles, in 2016.
They are part of an exhibit that tells the story of Japanese internment through the pictures of three photographers:

#DorotheaLange;

the equally renowned landscape photographer #AnselAdams, whose photos from California's Manzanar internment camp anchor the exhibit;

and #ToyoMiyatake, a Japanese-American photographer who was interned at Manzanar but smuggled in a camera
https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2016/02/17/466453528/photos-three-very-different-views-of-japanese-internment

The Association of Internet Researchers has decided that we will ramp down our use of Twitter, effective immediately.

Instead, we are shifting our activity to Mastodon, where for a few months we have been running our very own server. 👏👍

This means that we will not be tweeting during the #AoIR2023 conference. Instead, we will be posting on AoIR’s Mastodon instance (https://aoir.social).

Membership of this instance is a benefit of AoIR membership. AoIR members have recently been sent an invite link; if you are not a member of AoIR, why not join and also get access to our online community?

https://aoir.org/aoir2023onmastodon/

Pinning a quote from a lost toot of @oliphant :

No Democratic Presidential candidate has received a majority of the white vote since the 60s. (Since the Civil Rights act and realignment of the parties.)

Not one. Not any of them.
None.

Even in the last election, which was the easiest election to make the easiest choice and they failed.

It's why suppressing the black vote is so key to these assholes. Black people understand the assignment. Everyone understands the assignment.