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Re: In response to flash (Score: 1)
by dawingsoffury on Friday, September 17 @ 14:16:00 EDT
(User Info | Send a Message) | Actually you are the one playing fast and loose with the facts. These are the facts and they are undisputed during the appeal of Korematsu case and during the 1986 congressional commisson to investigate the Japanese American Internment. I repeat and I REPEAT no direct, solid evidence was found to link any Japanese Americans to any episonage activities in the United States. The MAGIC cables cited by you and Malkin books were about suspected Japanese episonage activities that were not fully substantied plus there is no evidence the MAGIC cables were ever sent to FDR before he made his decison to intern the Japanese Americans. So even if the MAGIC cables were fully verified (which they were not), FDR made his decision without ever seeing them. During the Korematsu appeal, it was determined that the Justice Department and the Solictor General of the US suppressed military and FBI intelligence reports stating there was no evidence that Japanese Americans were involved in episonage. Those reports were never submitted to the Supreme court during the original Korematsu trial. During the appeal in the 1980s, the government admitted as much and its only defense for its gross judicial misconduct during the original trial, "We were at war." J. Edgar Hoover himself said there was no evidence that Japanese Americans were disloyal after extensive FBI investigatons. Lt. General DeWitt (echoing the paranoia at the time) said that there were no Japanese American episonage acts but that should be evidence that one will occur so therefore we need to intern all of them. Yes I am well aware that Italians and Germans were interned also but not on the scale nor to the degree that Japanese Americans were.
And yet people like you and Malkin defend it to this day. You stand on the wrong side of history my friend.
BTW, the parents weren't arguing for balancing the view. They were arguing that no racism was involved at all (which according to Congress in 1986 was the only reason) and they said that teaching the Japanese American internment as wrong was "propoganda" used to bash the Bush Adminstration's anti-terror policies. The irony is that main sponser of the bill that paid reparations and admitting the internment was wrong was Pete Wilson, former Republican governor of California and a big supporter of George W. Bush. Plus the act was signed by President Reagan, a man Bush greatly admires.
How can a country not be racist in your words but still have racism in it? How can racism not be prevalent when racist hate groups like the KKK, White citizen's council, and Louis Farrakan's nation of Islam have thousands and thousands of members. How can a country not be racist when someone of one race will learn more money on average than a person of another race even though they have the same qualifications? Racism exists in this country. Does not matter if it affects one person, an entire group, or entire population. To minimize it and say it is not important does a disservice to all those in the past who sacrificed so much to get where we are today.
So when Asian-Americans who perform better on standardize tests and have higher graduation rates than whites still don't make as much money on average as they do even though we have the same qualifications, that is a phantom evil?
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