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Essay On Japanese American Internment

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The date was February 19, 1942, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt had just finished signing Executive order 9066, an order that would change millions of Japanese-American lives. Order 9066 fueled a fire that helped provoke a long string of racism. This order authorized the forced removal 120,000 Japanese-American. Solely because of their ancestry, their patriotism was questioned. All Japanese regardless of citizenship had to be prepared to leave their homes and could only carry two suitcases with them. The government forced this movement onto the Japanese which gave them little time to uproot their lives. and Many people believed this was faulty logic, but people scarcely protested against the confinement because they knew they would lose …show more content…

Having no clear case to prosecute with and no supporting evidence makes your side of the argument very weak. Like a bridge without support, it will collapse upon itself and leave a mess to clean up as well as a mark on the land. It does not say anywhere in the judicial system that one may prosecute with no hard evidence or strong case. There was no case or evidence except for the bombing which no one in the US was actually involved in. Just because “we looked the part of the enemy” says Fremon in the book Japanese American Internment pg. 22 they were raided and thrown from their home, because they had the look of their ancestors with a different colored skin and their face shape they were put in one large group. This was also one sign of racism. This was a classic case of racism which most Americans say “is not tolerated”. Racism by definition is “prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one's own race is superior.” Well some Many propaganda posters and voiced that opinion using racial slurs and violent images. The reason there where so many bumps in the road with this plan was because it was a sudden

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