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Gavin Newsom: “It was a sacred site where we were interning the Japanese…”

Featuring: Gavin Newsom, Democratic | Governor of California

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We talk about the Japanese internment. First time I met this masked man, Greg Bevino, it was at Little Tokyo in Los Angeles at the Democracy Center. It was a sacred site where we were interning the Japanese When Reagan made that speech in Southern California. to see what happened with what I have coined more of the rigging. The response to that with Prop 50, the mid district, mid decade, rather redistricting, so many things … (57:50–57:58)

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Asserts that a site in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, was used for Japanese internment and referenced in a Reagan speech.

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