Kristan Crawford

High School U.S. History/APUSH teacher; trying to live up to my middle name: Joy; resident of this world turned upside down

[Kristan Crawford @CrawfordKristan]

Ish made a TikTok and I have to post it. My first post in FOREVER!!!💪🏼🥳

[George Takei @GeorgeTakei]

On this day 82 years ago, on February 19, 1942, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in the height of insanity of racism after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, signed Executive Order 9066.

It ordered all Japanese Americans on the West Coast to be summarily rounded up and imprisoned within 10 barbed wire prison camps, with no charges, no trial, no due process.

One day, a few months later, we saw two soldiers marching up our driveway, carrying rifles with shiny bayonets on them. They stopped up the porch right in front of our window and banged on the front door. My father answered, and one of the soldiers pointed the rifle at him, right in front of us, and ordered us out of our home. I had just turned five in April; it was May when they came to take us away.

My father gave my brother Henry and me two heavy suitcases. And we brought them out onto the driveway and waited for our mother to come out. When she did, she had our baby sister in one arm, a huge duffel bag in the other, and tears were streaming down her cheeks.

That is one morning that is seared into my memory. I will never be able to forget all the innocent people, my family included, who had nothing to do with Pearl Harbor, most of who were law abiding U.S. citizens, who were suddenly categorized as ‘enemy aliens.’

Today, I hear terrifying words from political leaders today that once more raise the specter of what happened before, right here in America.

Donald Trump and his allies are talking about rounding up 11 million people and putting them into mass detention camps before deporting them.

There won’t be time for due process, to sort out who is documented and who is not. Homes will be lost. Businesses, too. Families will be torn apart. Lives will be ruined, over fear and ignorance, all to serve the ambitions and agendas of politicians.

I know, because I lived through it.

I say, never again. Not while I have one ounce of fight still left in me.

Join me. Fight this madness. Help keep America from repeating the mistakes of its past.

[Kristan Crawford @CrawfordKristan]

@lizzie_mar_ie @Overblank19 LOVE this! I’ve been off Twitter recently (watching it implode from the sidelines), but this was a wonderful note to open up and see. 😃 I hope u are both doing well!

[Kristan Crawford @CrawfordKristan]

My student printed an assignment in size 18 font for me, a beautiful sight for this 52 yo. I will take this as evidence that I’m his favorite teacher. 👍🏼😂

[Kristan Crawford @CrawfordKristan]

@strepitus_mundi Still better than your handwriting!😂

[Kristan Crawford @CrawfordKristan]

I’m grading an essay submitted in Comic Sans font. 😂👻

[Kristan Crawford @CrawfordKristan]

Hey @lemieuxdavid Why didn’t my boyfriend whisk me off to the Garden to see the Dead on my 16th bday? I need answers!🤷🏻‍♀️

[Kristan Crawford @CrawfordKristan]

So niece Ella informed me she is going to see Luke Bryan tonight. She’s appalled I have no clue who he is, but country musicians sound like they have marbles in their mouth. Not sure if he fits my stereotype.

[Kristan Crawford @CrawfordKristan]

However long it took to play the GD’s ”Eyes” at Nassau ‘90 (Branford Marsalis!🔥) is as long as it took me to sweep spider webs off my house today. I am not amused.

[Kristan Crawford @CrawfordKristan]

Hey @lemieuxdavid Heartiest of thanks for the ‘78 “Fire” on the drive to work this morn. My hero! What a way to start the day!😘

[Kristan Crawford @CrawfordKristan]

@lucky_budd @lemieuxdavid Love that album!

[Kristan Crawford @CrawfordKristan]

@alexaquaranta40 Couldn’t do it, Alexa.😢 I’d feel too guilty! I saw you and your soccer team on the news when you helped with clean-up after the tornado last year. You are awesome! Bravo!💪🏼🔥🤩

[Kristan Crawford @CrawfordKristan]

Ugh. A fountain pen I’ve been wanting for years is on sale for $500. I’m depressed and want to buy it. Teachers do not buy such things.😳 Please talk me out of it.

[Kristan Crawford @CrawfordKristan]

@originalmkh Hi Madison! I couldn’t do it. Maybe if I had won the lotto…😂

[Kristan Crawford @CrawfordKristan]

Holy guacamole😳

[Laura Jedeed @LauraJedeed]

Hello I would like to share with you the most astonishing thing I have ever seen

At this CPAC booth you receive a silent disco headset that plays harrowing testimony from people arrested for participating in J6

Instead of dancing, you stand around and watch this guy cry

[Kristan Crawford @CrawfordKristan]

@missdlindsey Howdy to you and Ms. Tufo! 🤩

[Kristan Crawford @CrawfordKristan]

Ummm, I just saw a kiss WITH TONGUE on my Hallmark movie and it was delightful. 👍🏼👍🏼 Double thumbs up. This may have been a first.🔥😍🤯

[Kristan Crawford @CrawfordKristan]

I’m OBSESSED with this…

[Sonia Baschez @SoniaBaschez]

Here’s to politicians using TikTok properly lmao

[Kristan Crawford @CrawfordKristan]

I am destroyed.😳

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

This is how sea cucumbers eat
https://t.co/KC7IWqdFuH

[Kristan Crawford @CrawfordKristan]

@dreamflower127 I say donate it to yourself! We’re all looking to help YOU land on your feet. All the best!🔥🤩💪🏼

[Kristan Crawford @CrawfordKristan]

@dreamflower127 Safe travels goin’ down the road.🌹💀🌹😃