Fort Minor - Kenji Music Video

Fort Minor - Kenji

Lyrics
My father came from Japan in 1905
He was 15 when he immigrated from Japan
He worked until he was able to buy to actually build a store

Let me tell you the story in the form of a dream,
I don't know why I have to tell it but I know what it means,
Close your eyes, just picture the scene,
As I paint it for you, it was World War II,
When this man named Kenji woke up,
Ken was not a soldier,
He was just a man with a family who owned a store in LA,
That day, he crawled out of bed like he always did,
Bacon and eggs with wife and kids,
He lived on the second floor of a little store he ran,
He moved to LA from Japan,
They called him 'Immigrant,'
In Japanese, he'd say he was called "Issei,"
That meant 'First Generation In The United States,'
When everybody was afraid of the Germans, afraid of the Japs,
But most of all afraid of a homeland attack,
And that morning when Ken went out on the doormat,
His world went black 'cause,
Right there; front page news,
Three weeks before 1942,
"Pearl Harbour's Been Bombed And The Japs Are Comin',"
Pictures of soldiers dyin' and runnin',
Ken knew what it would lead to,
Just like he guessed, the President said,
"The evil Japanese in our home country will be locked away,"
They gave Ken, a couple of days,
To get his whole life packed in two bags,
Just two bags, couldn't even pack his clothes,
Some folks didn't even have a suitcase, to pack anything in,
So two trash bags is all they gave them,
When the kids asked mom "Where are we goin'?"
Nobody even knew what to say to them,
Ken didn't wanna lie, he said "The US is lookin' for spies,
So we have to live in a place called Manzanar,
Where a lot of Japanese people are,"
Stop it don't look at the gunmen,
You don't wanna get the soldiers wonderin',
If you gonna run or not,
'Cause if you run then you might get shot,
Other than that try not to think about it,
Try not to worry 'bout it; bein' so crowded,
Someday we'll get out, someday, someday.

As soon as war broke out
The F.B.I. came and they just come to the house and
"You have to come"
"All the Japanese have to go"
They took Mr. Ni
People didn't understand
Why did they have to take him?
Because he's an innocent laborer

So now they're in a town with soldiers surroundin' them,
Every day, every night look down at them,
From watch towers up on the wall,
Ken couldn't really hate them at all;
They were just doin' their job and,
He wasn't gonna make any problems,
He had a little garden with vegetables and fruits that,
He gave to the troops in a basket his wife made,
But in the back of his mind, he wanted his families life saved,
Prisoners of war in their own damn country,
What for?
Time passed in the prison town,
He wanted them to live it down when they were free,
The only way out was joinin' the army,
And supposedly, some men went out for the army, signed on,
And ended up flyin to Japan with a bomb,
That 15 kiloton blast, put an end to the war pretty fast,
Two cities were blown to bits; the end of the war came quick,
Ken got out, big hopes of a normal life, with his kids and his wife,
But, when they got back to their home,
What they saw made them feel so alone,
These people had trashed every room,
Smashed in the windows and bashed in the doors,
Written on the walls and the floor,
"Japs not welcome anymore."
And Kenji dropped both of his bags at his sides and just stood outside,
He, looked at his wife without words to say,
She looked back at him wiping tears away,
And, said "Someday we'll be ok, someday,"
Now the names have been changed, but the story's true,
My family was locked up back in '42,
My family was there it was dark and damp,
And they called it an internment camp

When we first got back from camp
It was pretty pretty bad

I I remember my husband

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[Zacharytessier]

I know what it's like to be locked when your innocent and everyone is lookin at you like your a criminal or something

[eliass98]

Mike Kenji Shinoda <3

[gauntkiller5039]

@DBZmegafan99 its a mash up of scenes from pearl harbor

[gauntkiller5039]

the video is a mash up of the movie pearl harbor scenes

[MikeHDcod]

@TheCindermuffin Bro I'm sorry dog, this fucking propaganda was fed to me by my piece of shit zionist 12 grade history teacher, I thought the education system would have integrity, your 100% right and this might be a first every on the internet but I admit I was a mindless sheep following some fucked up authority figure (my teacher) I should do my own research before spouting off garbage, i'm sorry bro, the loss of civil liberties to the Japanese is disgusting and horrendous you are right, sry

[TheDataBase]

made me think how silly the world is!

Happens to me nearly in every airport!

just because "born in Iraq" even if my pass is European!

after all these years, even I forgot how Iraq looks like!

looked at and treated as a terrorist !!!

[cheese8046]

@DBZmegafan99 really?maybe it came from a movie ..

[DBZmegafan99]

@cheese8046 No. There's no video for this song, but I do wonder where this vid came from cuz it's the best fan made video I've seen for this song

[djmizuna]

@RoxtarFreak

>For no reason

Too ignorant.

Study what America was doing to Japan before WW2.

Especially,check Hull Note which America tends to hide.

[charlieatron]

its good that they made this vid. makes people know about it

[gabrielwoods11]

It's kinda sad :(

[gabrielwoods11]

@RoxtarFreak plus we wouldn't give them oil