Bay Area author refuses to cut 'racism' references in new book

Bay Area author Maggie Tokuda-hall talks after Scholastic asks her to remove "racism" references in her new book "Love in the Library" in their attempt to license it. abc7ne.ws/3UJflG6
#book #author #race #scholastic #abc7news

[@nighttrain7404]

She’s right. Unfortunately people now talk about “speak YOUR truth” and not THE truth and want to live in variations.

[@Jianju69]

She's wrong. She's peddling HER truth, far from objective reality.

[@nighttrain7404]

@@Jianju69 thank you for your variation

[@hsuehhs1]

@@Jianju69 She is speaking the truth

[@TiredAmerican247]

@@hsuehhs1 until she mentions Japan’s attack on America then no she isn’t. She’s cherry picking her truth.

[@sanriosonderweg]

"her truth", she uses all the buzz words, then complains about the corporations controlled and staffed by people who come out of those very "studies" programs.

[@davidwright873]

The Japanese were the most brutal murderous people in ww2 bar no e!

[@911jayishsupremacy]

Before that Japanese and Germans were the unsung heroes to American interest and alliance then became geopolitical pawns and a target 🎯 after the oil embargo/ internet back stabbed deal. Did you know Japanese/ Germans were fighting against communism expansion countries for America 🇺🇸 Western alliance?

[@createinmeacleanheartohgod6871]

Agreed because Filipinos were their victims.

[@hsuehhs1]

This is about Japanese interment camps! Stop hiding the Truth!

[@donbasuradenuevo]

Now imagine if she was a black American talking about civil rights and Apartheid. Editors would BEG for her to use the "r" word in every single page. That is the real definition of racism.

[@forthesnowflakes7691]

Bawahahahahahahahaha. You are weak minded and it is hilarious!

[@forthesnowflakes7691]

Now imagine that book with all the "r" words being banned because Conservatives are worried its going to hurt their feelings. LMAO

[@donbasuradenuevo]

@@forthesnowflakes7691 Ah, yes, typical snowflake NPC without own ideas that can only imitate like a parrot. Want a cookie, Polly? LOL.

[@gkanon7295]

@@forthesnowflakes7691 Ummm no? Leftist like you would be the most hurt because they will no longer be able defend their opinions.

[@pitbullMama-ki7rc]

It's Freedom of speech 💬 I'll read her book 📚

[@rick_222]

if she doesn't like it she can create her own company, this is what leftists say

[@churblefurbles]

The people censoring her are products of those university "studies" courses, can hardly complain.

[@Jianju69]

You can't even speak English, you know that?

[@JennyWren333]

Italians were also kept in internment camps in the USA. During WWII both Japanese and Italian people were moved from their homes to camps because those countries were deemed enemies of the state. (Wonder why Germans weren’t encamped?) For reference Google: Proclamation 2527 and the Internment of Italian Americans during WW2 For historical purposes all truths should be known.

[@jillbelas7266]

Germans weren't encamped in WW2 because their cultural identity was already ruined in WW1.

[@TiredAmerican247]

Don’t say that too loud. War and other whites from enemy countries being locked up would damage her narrative.

[@pwd1134]

Yeah but you forgot to mention why. If you're going to recall history you need to recall all of it.

[@JennyWren333]

@@pwd1134 I mentioned the “why” as well as the reference cite that you, and anyone else who questions “why” may simply enter those words into any search engine and read, in depth, the comprehensive information provided there.

[@JennyWren333]

@@TiredAmerican247 Revisionist history is a large part of woke culture too! 😉 (love your name handle!)

[@pwd1134]

I wonder if she mentions that it was the Democratic party that did this to her ancestors.

[@hsuehhs1]

why is the point of that? Your just being triggered by the facts

[@hsuehhs1]

Are you going mention that NRA used to support gun control?

[@dean._.0.0]

Thank you Maggie for keeping up the fight against censorship!

[@hsuehhs1]

I totally agree

[@pwd1134]

Hopefully they don't censor the part about Pearl harbor in her book, oh wait she doesn't write about it.

[@tuckerbugeater]

@@pwd1134 Did she write about FDR provoking the Japanese into attacking?

[@DaringDanielletravels]

She is a Bay Area, Japanese-American Icon!

[@TiredAmerican247]

She’s white

[@stoa7302]

I'm with you. Its really delightful to hear Ms. Hall speak in such an enlightened, soulful and just way. I wish all public discourse could be at this level, because its high. I had to laugh during her talk and say " yep this is the Bay Area". 😆

[@churblefurbles]

No one outside this bubble has heard of her.

[@tuckerbugeater]

@@TiredAmerican247 j wish asian

[@spark300c]

@@TiredAmerican247 do you mean culturally white. she is American after all. She does have asian eyes. also Japanese out all East Asians groups have close facial structure to whites.

[@Kaditsu-Chronicles]

Good on you for standing your ground Dear Author!❤

[@pwd1134]

I can't wait to read her version of the events at Pearl harbor in the book too!

[@hsuehhs1]

@@pwd1134 What point are you trying to make here?! The point of the story is that Japanese Americans are not responsible for the Attacks of Pearl Harbor! Get the point?!

[@TheLoneComic]

Maggie did two brave things in controlling her intellectual property. One, she fought for the truth kids should know so they may continue to identify and fight to remove evils like racism from society. Two, she fought homogenizing and canceling by corporations strictly to prevent anything from potentially damaging profits or causing liability. As someone born in Japan, and knowing the Japanese people well, they are the least likely people to disrespect anyone in any way; such is the nature of their culture’s guiding principle of respect for all life. In triangulating factually the dimension and scope of racism in colonialist and racist legacy, she depolarizes the binary predominant view of racism, and shows that racism is actually so widespread and multifaceted, that it’s real origin is classism- the great, silent hierarchy of class that prejudices us all - racially, financially, by zip code, by clothing option, by symbolism, by spoken language, by purchase, by religion, by cultural assimilation, by income, by education - brother, we all have a very long way to go. Good work for tomorrow, Maggie.

[@TiredAmerican247]

If she fought for the truth does she mention Pearl Harbor?

[@hsuehhs1]

@@TiredAmerican247 she probably does

[@sanriosonderweg]

Lets just say the brave don't get published at all.

[@pwd1134]

I wonder what her take on the events at Pearl harbor will be in this book.

[@manuelmoraleda9684]

Those Japanese Kamikaze pilots were NEVER Americans who bombed Pearl Harbor. They were totally obedient to the dictates of the Japanese emperor. Those Japanese Americans subjected to racism were NEVER disloyal. Not a single case of treason from the group exists. Their patriotic fervor is displayed by the 442nd Battalion composed of Japanese Americans in the European theater.

[@clifforddang5947]

What about a book about the Nanking massacre? Is that too controversial?

[@hsuehhs1]

what point are you trying to make?

[@sleepymofo]

There is one by Iris Chang. But there should be more recognition of that atrocity, even if it happened over 70 yrs ago.

[@jasonlucas2328]

Iris Chang committed suicide several years after the book was published. She couldn't sleep and had nightmares after researching the book.

[@clifforddang5947]

@@hsuehhs1 You’re Chinese right? You should know …

[@hsuehhs1]

@@clifforddang5947 nope I’m Taiwanese! And The Taiwanese are chilled with Japanese people

[@AresWing314]

"Sometimes People don't want to hear the Truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed." ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

[@createinmeacleanheartohgod6871]

That is why he didn't wanna hear the Truth of Jesus Christ. Truth is not a principle, Truth is God and it's Jesus Christ.

[@hsuehhs1]

@@createinmeacleanheartohgod6871 That’s why you don’t want hear the facts about the Japanese Interment camps

[@FaStTurdle]

​@@createinmeacleanheartohgod6871 amen to that.

[@pwd1134]

Hopefully she explicitly covers the horrors of the events at Pearl harbor in her book as well.

[@AresWing314]

@@pwd1134 pdid2159, Hopefully you understand, it was our own U.S. Government that forced our own Japanese U.S. Citizens into Internment Camps against their will. They lost their Homes, Businesses, & Academic Pursuits. The Japan Government had nothing to do with these U.S. Japanese Citizens. If we chose to ignore this injustice, the same injustice can happen to anyone of our own citizens.

[@lz4998]

THis is why people go self publishing, and nobody actually cares about big establishments much anymore

[@rick_222]

she's complaining because they are refusing to push her leftist agenda of racism.

[@paulryan6269]

I see a racist!

[@hsuehhs1]

She is not being racist! How is she being racist?

[@Agent.Wadsworth]

She's a lil too woke & outspoken for her own good. But I respect her standing her ground & showcasing the injustice that was the internment camps.

[@Jianju69]

It was unjust, and we made it right. Of COURSE Americans were fearful when we were at war with Japan! What, do we expect perfect policies at every step?

[@michaelHJ4276]

iam on team Maggie side & Thank her for telling her family's history & truth let's support her free speech in American founded by immigrations with there own history & truth Period

[@AliasHSW]

Grew up watching Wendy in an era of Oh wow! There’s an Asian face like ours on TV!

[@TiredAmerican247]

She’s white

[@tuckerbugeater]

@@TiredAmerican247 j wish

[@dandelion1469]

I don't know about your but books were escapism for me when I was a child I would not have wanted to read about racism since I heard about it enough in class

[@dr.migueltorrezedd8651]

I'm glad to hear she didn't remove it. Why should she? People can't just take history and erase what they don't like and keep the Mary Poppins parts they like. They've been erasing history for decades (this needs to stop).

[@TiredAmerican247]

WW2 wasn’t about racism. She’s twisting facts.

[@pwd1134]

Yeah hopefully she extensively covers the horrors of the tragedy of Pearl Haebor in this book as well. You know, when her ancestors killed nearly 2,500 hundred Americans.

[@hsuehhs1]

@@TiredAmerican247no she’s not

[@TiredAmerican247]

@@hsuehhs1 yes she is. Does she say what happened to America soldiers being attacked on US soil? The cause for the camps wasn’t based on race but actions.

[@tuckerbugeater]

@@TiredAmerican247 Or how FDR provoked the Japanese into attacking. Or how FDR started selling war bonds in 1940. The jews wanted WW2 and the goy played their part.

[@MrTee-de7to]

The debate is not about the information, it is about at what age do you allow schools to expose children to the books in question. The schools are part of the government, Big Brother if you will, and shouldn't cut parents out of deciding what's best for their children. Parents, you just feed and cloth them and pay all the bills, and the Government will handle their moral education, it will take over teaching them what's right and wrong. Please at six years old let's concentrate on the 3Rs. Especially when children of color are consistently behind white children when it comes to math and reading skills. How about getting all pissed off about that.

[@hsuehhs1]

You got teach while they are young

[@jones2277]

She's absolutely right. Stop the jingoism. I used to love Scholastic books. Not anymore!

[@kiarragraves2395]

Interesting. Great interview!

[@adelmomontero3554]

Our youth needs to know how the government in the past treated its own citizens; Hispanics, Chinese, Japanese, Italians etc, need to tell their story so that it doesn't get repeated.

[@davidtesler1198]

Mistreatment has happened in every culture and ethnic group, and nation in this world. I always tell everyone that f you do not like USA I say just leave it

[@createinmeacleanheartohgod6871]

Hispanics and Africans are still treating their own people with hatred and discrimination. In Africa, it's tribe against tribe, killing is a daily routine. Your own Gov't back in ur own countries don't even care about your own people. European gov't take good care of their own country and people. That is why Hispanics and Blacks are invading White's people countries to partake how it is like living with dignity that they can't have back in their own home.

[@UnknownArchive]

Yeah because it's so under told now

[@hsuehhs1]

@@davidtesler1198 We also have freedom of speech. Why are you so triggered by this?

[@hsuehhs1]

@@UnknownArchive what is your point?

[@dancemaniac3868]

Scholastic should be ashamed of themselves for censorship.

[@thekenthouse6428]

Scholastic's been selectively filtering literary works through a certain political prism for years.

[@TiredAmerican247]

Does the author mention Pearl Harbor?

[@hsuehhs1]

@@TiredAmerican247She probably does

[@TiredAmerican247]

@@hsuehhs1 oh, so you don’t even know? BAHAHAHA!!!!

[@pwd1134]

No. This girl should be ashamed and her ancestors for killing 2500 Americans during the events of Pearl harbor which I'm sure she doesn't mention in her book.

[@keithbrown3045]

The concept of truth and reconciliation is a noble idea, however it rarely works out in real life. More often, it leads to more bitterness, resentment, and division.

[@alisont.6940]

We are in such dangerous times. I applaud her for her hard no and standing up to publishers who want to censor factual information for fear of offending someone who doesn't want to acknowledge it.

[@TiredAmerican247]

When you try to turn WW2 into a “racism” issue it’s pretty pathetic.

[@churblefurbles]

While others get jailed for memes, this controlled opposition complains about publishers staffed by exactly her type.

[@TiredAmerican247]

@@churblefurbles even the publisher libs saw through her history cherry picking. Turning WW2 into some “racism issue”. How low can one get.

[@pwd1134]

Yeah hopefully she mentions the part about her ancestors killing 2500 Americans during the tragedy of Pearl harbor in this book as well.

[@tuckerbugeater]

@@pwd1134 FDR and his jew financiers wanted WW2. They provoked the japanese into attacking by imposing sanctions.

[@SeeLight222]

Is the Story about Love in a University library, meant for4-8 year old children? A read-aloud book? California never stops expiriementing.😑🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭 🙄

[@hsuehhs1]

Nope it’s about a Teenage Japanese American librarian girl and Japanese American boy who fall in love during the Japanese interment camps during WW2 after attack on Pearl Harbor watch the news and you will know

[@teeem1650]

We're behind you Maggie!!

[@pwd1134]

Do you also support the deaths of 2500 Americans at Pearl harbor? You know, the reason her grandparents were an internment camps in the first place?

[@John-Brown]

What political party put the Japanese in internment camps? Does her book talk about that or conveniently censor the ugly truth?

[@hsuehhs1]

What’s so important about that?

[@jasonlucas2328]

Do we need to guess? Republican!

[@John-Brown]

@@jasonlucas2328 Guess again!

[@espeeboy]

Really John? Comparing paranoid WWII politics of 80 years ago to today’s distant sides political party rift? You’re missing the whole point of this great interview which is book/free speech censorship, ignoring the evil racist truths of American history and the love story of Maggie’s interned grandparents from their Minidoka camps experience (ironically who met in a censored book government supplied library!)

[@TiredAmerican247]

@@jasonlucas2328 you should learn you history.

[@drmarioschannel]

Great interview!

[@svarupa]

kiki ❤

[@kaydenpat]

It's funny how Republicans go on and on about freedom of speech except when it comes to racism or other forms of bigotry. Hang tough, Maggie!!

[@tedbaehr1862]

Just an FYI...Scholastic is a libtard publishing company...

[@TiredAmerican247]

So explain the racism about WW2 and the bombing of Pearl Harbor? Or the genocide Japan was doing to its neighboring countries during that exact same time.

[@sanriosonderweg]

Who staffs book publishers? Its the people who come out of those very X studies programs, and who do not believe in free speech at all, neither do you.

[@spark300c]

Scholastic is book publishing company.

[@forthesnowflakes7691]

@@TiredAmerican247 triggered republican, your comment didnt even make any sense but I think I get what you're saying. Japan's treatment of its neighboring countries was not about racism and more about a violent overthrow of countries - Their ideologies of supremacy could be considered racist but after that war look at Japan's humility and their culture's sentiment of shame became apparent. Republican Conservative RWeres display no humility or shame. Not even after slavery - they would rather try to erase history vs learning through humility and shame...and thus your attitude and your comment. Fragile af.

[@seanypoo4018]

If they have drag queen story time....this book shouldn't be a problem.

[@tonychopper4114]

you are spewing nonsense and unrelated issue.

[@raiden72]

No thanks. I'd rather learn about real history like Pearl harbor in the Nanking massacre so that nobody glorifies certain races over others, and that all humans should stop killing each other regardless of race.

[@hsuehhs1]

@@raiden72That Japanese interment camps is real history

[@craigkeller]

Yay Maggie! Speaking truth. We are with you.

[@pwd1134]

I can't wait to read her take on her ancestors killing 2500 Americans at Pearl harbor which led to her grandparents being led into internment camps.

[@videofandude99]

Whyte people need to chill. She’s not demonizing whyte people, she only pointed out in her book of what whyte people did in the past, not today. So chill, let her write her book, and let it roll off your back because the book is not attacking current whyte people, it’s only attacking your ancestors which is acceptable. 👍🏼

[@davidwright873]

I'm not sure what we did wrong? There in lies the rub,,

[@UnknownArchive]

So does that mean that we could attack her ancestors who brutally killed medics, did The worst unprovoked attack of war ever, is that OK?

[@jeremys6631]

On the racist, it's White 🤡

[@raiden72]

SMH. People in these comments don't even know what Pearl harbor was 🙄🙄

[@hsuehhs1]

@@raiden72yes they do! The point is that that doesn’t justify putting Japanese Americans into camps!

[@JoeRogansGutBiome]

Good for her. I am glad she stood up f9r what's eight. Just,don't do business with these racist corporations and market your book on your own.

[@vallejoborncalihasbecomeal9022]

I wonder if the Bataan death March will be a paragraph in her book?

[@sleepymofo]

Why would it be? Japanese American Internment by the US government and the Bataan Death March committed by the Japanese military were completely separate.

[@MasterVader510]

Keep up the good fight Maggie!

[@JSUANWorks]

Vote Democrats.

[@davidtesler1198]

Why did the Americans intern Japanese citizens? Let's talk about the atrocities done to Americans of every ethnic group in USA done by that era of Japanese. Yes we need to remember these things but no one alive had any part of them and as I told the Japanese people whom were crying at the Pearl Harbor port, I said forget it we are all friends now. I love the Japanese culture and most of them would agree with me on this

[@createinmeacleanheartohgod6871]

I know, Japanese have amnesia about their involvement in 2nd world war. They did terrible harm in the Philippines, they rape women.

[@David-wn9qo]

Libs are so afraid of history. We as a society need to learn so we don’t make the same mistakes.

[@hsuehhs1]

Huh it’s conservative parents who want censored this book

[@thekenthouse6428]

Facts

[@forthesnowflakes7691]

Conservatives are the ones banning books and anything close to shining light on racism aka CRT. The fact that you actually think Liberals are afraid of history while Conservative Republicans are the ones banning books and CRT just proves how lacking of facts and reality you live in.

[@xwarrrmongerx22]

Let’s have a book about the Bataan Death March.. my step mom seen it first hand. What the imperial Japanese military did to American Soldiers and Filipino soldiers and civilians. She cried when she saw Japanese soldiers cut American and bayonet those who couldn’t walk. She remembers the faces of those young men begging for water and food.

[@hsuehhs1]

It’s very obvious that you don’t like the book and want to be censored

[@shadow-tn1yi]

Then go write one and publish it. Nobody is stopping you. Your attempt to censor her speech is ludicrous. Whether you like it or not doesn't give you the right to censor her freedom of speech. Oh wait, I forgot this is China, not the USA. There is no freedom of speech because the USA is controlled by the communist fascist liberals. Go to China if you want to censor speech or North Korea. You will love it there

[@xwarrrmongerx22]

@@hsuehhs1 where did I say that?

[@hsuehhs1]

@@xwarrrmongerx22 Look what you are saying?

[@xwarrrmongerx22]

@@hsuehhs1 what is it not true that the Bataan Death March did happen? how about the Nanjing Massacre should we not talk about that too..

[@dianaprince9311]

Go author tell the real ugly truth. No need to candy coat the real reality of her grandparents. Invalidating their experiences means it didn’t exist and this author wasn’t having it.❤

[@TiredAmerican247]

Does this book tell children what happened at Pearl Harbor too?

[@pwd1134]

Yeah I sure hope she doesn't sugar coat the part about her ancestors killing 2500 Americans during Pearl harbor which led to her grandparents being put into internment camps.

[@albertobernal1900]

God bless you for bringing true

[@KOREANLADYSF]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@geckomcgraw2692]

Lol her family did pretty well for living in a “racist” country, her mom is a famous reporter and she is an author

[@sleepymofo]

Yeah….the U.S. doesn’t have racism….

[@vkevpe]

It’s bulkshit. The notion that racism is the same today.

[@stevenzechmeister474]

you keep doing what your doing princess!

[@Jianju69]

"Keep racism alive!" is her message.

[@MalchikGuy]

wow she comes off as super high maintenance Hard pass

[@roachfamily2434]

Swipe left

[@createinmeacleanheartohgod6871]

Japanese were treated differently in America before due to Japanese' involvement in communism, 2nd world war. Japanese Gov't was fighting for communism alongside Hitler. So back then, every Japanese was a threat to the Ameica, and so do Jews and Germans. They weren't treated differently because they were Japanese, but because they were communist at least to the eyes of spies. But socialy, a lot of ethnicities were treated badly back then too, Irish, non-English speaking Europeans were discriminated against. This woman should think twice before acting like a hero for her grandparents.

[@hsuehhs1]

This is about Japanese American interment camps! You are very hateful! This doesn’t justify putting Japanese Americans into camps! These people were also American citizens! You just don’t get it!

[@TiredAmerican247]

@@hsuehhs1 who said they were Japanese Americans? Where’s the proof?

[@Irene94087]

Keeping racism alive by bring it up everyday

[@hsuehhs1]

It’s all part of history

[@pwd1134]

​@@hsuehhs1 how is America's response to 2,500 deaths at Pearl harbor at the hands of Japanese racist? It could've been Canada in Japan's place and Canadian-Americans would have been treated the exact same.

[@hsuehhs1]

@@pwd1134 That doesn’t justify putting Japanese Americans in Camps

[@kanank13]

enough of this woke bs about racism. we have come too far beyond that.

[@hsuehhs1]

it’s part of American history! You can’t censor history

[@michaelmorrissey1052]

@@hsuehhs1 She lives in Oakland, filled with junkies, homeless encampments, gangs and crime. Watch the Bay Area news, we know who is attacking Asians and robbing their businesses, it ain’t guys in MAGA hats.

[@hsuehhs1]

@@michaelmorrissey1052that’s not the point

[@hsuehhs1]

@@michaelmorrissey1052The book isn’t about Oakland it’s about WW2 Japanese Americans interment camps

[@hsuehhs1]

@@michaelmorrissey1052Why are you afraid of the truth of the dark side of American history?

[@ML77619]

Maybe she should sell her book in Japan??

[@hsuehhs1]

what happened to Freedom of speech? And speaking the Truth?

[@createinmeacleanheartohgod6871]

@@hsuehhs1 Are u the spokeperson for the asian author?

[@hsuehhs1]

@@createinmeacleanheartohgod6871 Nope but we can’t hide the Truth!

[@hsuehhs1]

What’s wrong with selling this book here?

[@TiredAmerican247]

@@hsuehhs1 what’s wrong with selling it in Japan?

[@gregmark1688]

You can talk about racism in America, because there IS no racism in America, and if you think there is, it's obviously because YOU are the racist!!11