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BF: Did you -- as you were sort of learning these things and coming up with this belief about fairness and justice and civil rights, do you remember talking about it much with say, your husband or your family and sort of sharing these, these developments with them?

CK: Not very much. [Laughs]

BF: So it was mostly within JACL.

CK: Yeah. Typically Nisei, where there was very little conversation, you know, within the family. Partly because our parents were, my parents were with us and because we couldn't converse freely because we didn't understand other than the simple Japanese, so nothing about politics or anything like that. That's the handicap that we had. That we didn't sit down at the dinner table and able to discuss with your parents and all these things. So I think that made us get a very late start in being active. And even now there is the repercussion of we don't have a lot of political leaders. We don't have... I think the Chinese group has done marvelously well and are way, way ahead of Japanese groups.

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