{"id":1513965,"date":"2022-06-13T16:06:05","date_gmt":"2022-06-13T20:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1513965"},"modified":"2022-06-13T16:06:18","modified_gmt":"2022-06-13T20:06:18","slug":"whoops-biden-calls-asian-civil-rights-activist-karen-nagasaki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/whoops-biden-calls-asian-civil-rights-activist-karen-nagasaki\/","title":{"rendered":"Whoops: Biden Calls Asian Civil Rights Activist \u2018Karen Nagasaki\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwhoops-biden-calls-asian-civil-rights-activist-karen-nagasaki%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1513965&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/joe-biden\">Joe Biden<\/a> made another one of his infamous gaffes on Monday as he referred to a Japanese-American civil rights activist as \u201cKaren Nagasaki\u201d when her actual last name is \u201cNarasaki.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The president somehow made the unfortunate error despite reading from a teleprompter during a ceremony celebrating a law that will establish a commission to study the creation of a National Museum of Asian American and Pacific Islander History and Culture, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/06\/13\/politics\/biden-museum-national-asian-pacific-american-history-act\/index.html\">according<\/a> to CNN.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can\u2019t even make this stuff up,\u201d tweeted The Daily Wire\u2019s Cabot Phillips. \u201cBiden just called an Asian rights activist \u2018Karen Nagasaki\u2019 instead of Narasaki.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">You can\u2019t even make this stuff up.<\/p>\n<p>Biden just called an Asian rights activist \u201cKaren Nagasaki\u201d instead of Narasaki. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ni17mp6xYU\">pic.twitter.com\/ni17mp6xYU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Cabot Phillips (@cabot_phillips) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cabot_phillips\/status\/1536421115127635968?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 13, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Narasaki is the former Commissioner on the United States Commission on Civil Rights. President Barack Obama appointed her in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe previously served as president and executive director of Asian Americans Advancing Justice \u2026 one of the nation\u2019s premier civil rights organizations,\u201d her biography also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usccr.gov\/about\/karen-narasaki\">states<\/a>. \u201cPrior to that she was the Washington Representative for the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL). And before JACL, she was an attorney with Perkins Coie. Ms. Narasaki began her career as a law clerk for Judge Harry Pregerson of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit from 1985 to 1986.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Narasaki has stated that she became inspired to become a civil rights activist working on behalf of Asian Americans after the U.S. federal government interned her parents for being of Japanese descent during World War II.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy parents were imprisoned in internment camps during WWII with their families as teenagers. Both were born in the US, but my father said it was because there were not enough Americans willing to speak out against this clear violation of our Constitution and their human rights. After they were married, they faced housing discrimination as people of color were not allowed to buy homes in many neighborhoods,\u201d she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unitedway-pdx.org\/stories\/reducing-racism-our-communities-qa-civil-rights-leader-karen-narasaki\">explained<\/a> in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Nagasaki is the city in Japan where the U.S. military dropped the second atomic bomb during WWII. The deadly blast killed \u201can estimated 40,000 people\u201d and led to the end of the war, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.history.com\/topics\/world-war-ii\/bombing-of-hiroshima-and-nagasaki\">noted<\/a> by History.com. Shortly after, \u201cJapan\u2019s Emperor Hirohito announced his country\u2019s unconditional surrender in World War II in a radio address on August 15, citing the devastating power of \u2018a new and most cruel bomb.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden did not appear to catch his faux pas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden made another one of his infamous gaffes on Monday as he referred to a Japanese-American civil rights activist as \u201cKaren Nagasaki\u201d when her actual last name is \u201cNarasaki.\u201d The president somehow made the unfortunate error despite reading from a teleprompter during a ceremony celebrating a law that will establish a commission to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":326,"featured_media":1514122,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1513965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/326"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1513965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1514122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1513965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1513965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1513965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}