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Michael Johnston: “Ralph Carr has always been one of my heroes. He was the…”

Featuring: Michael Johnston, Nonpartisan | Mayor of Denver | Colorado

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Denver Mayor provides his stance on the upcoming Immigration policies, Says He Willing to Go to Jail

Published | Video Starts at 00:58

There are a lot of ways to approach this problem. We don't think it has to come to this. But, yeah, I think when you look at, you know, Ralph Carr has always been one of my heroes. He was the governor who, in the middle of the internment of Japanese Americans, said this was the wrong thing to do, and he stood up. It was unpopular. People were mad at him about it. That was the middle of wartime. (00:58–01:06)

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Asserts that Governor Ralph Carr opposed the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II.

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