LOS ANGELES – Pop star Katy Perry is coming to the defense of Muslims in a new Public Service Announcement video she produced.
The “Dark Horse” singer produced a new video titled “Is History repeating itself?” a video that draws parallels between the rhetoric that caused the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans and the fear-mongering political rhetoric that is attacking American Muslims today led by the Trump administration.
Perry’s video tells the true story of Haru Kuromiya, an American woman with Japanese heritage whose life was changed forever by the implementation of concentration camps during WWII.
During World War II, about 120,000 Japanese American citizens were forced by executive order to leave their homes and businesses and live behind barbed wires in internment camps following the Pearl Harbor attacks.
Perry’s new video draws similarities between talks of the “Muslim registry” and what Japanese-Americans faced during WWII.
However, Perry’s clip comes with a shocking twist.
At the end of the video, the actress playing Kuromiya takes off her mask to reveal the face of Hina Khan, a Muslim actress of Pakistani heritage.
On January 21, Perry is slated to join in a much-anticipated women’s march on Washington to oppose Trump’s inauguration. But her legacy isn’t without controversy.
Watch the video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBsImjKVof4
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