Japanese Internment Camps Essay

You most likely have heard about World War II and that the United States was Isolated from the war until Pearl Harbor. But have you thought about the aftermath of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor? Especially in a time of racism and hysteria? Japanese Internment camps were created and relocated thousands of Japanese-Americans, thinking that they are a national security threat. Japanese Internment was unnecessary and unlawful because it was a time of racism, stereotype, hypocrisy and criminal. To begin with, racism was a very immense ordeal. Most of the people at the time who were facing racism and discrimination, were the African-Americans whom were of dark skin color. In fact, whites thought themselves higher than African-Americans, and thus racism sprouted, even whites thought that they could own a person and bought African-Americans as slaves. Although some racism has been more or less eradicated and slavery is considered illegal, there is still racism and segregation and even stereotypes today. According to the article “Racism in North America, then and now” By Amanda Nguyen it states, “Young Black boys are assumed to be aggressive, dangerous and up to no good. This is an example of a stereotype Black people go through. They are assumed to be “dangerous.” White

Meaning that this law was unjust and was the same as Jim Crow laws, something that shouldn’t have ever been established. Moreover, the relocation of Japanese-Americans for their protection was “sheer hypocrisy” according to Edison Tomimaro Uno which denies that they posed a national security threat. Not to mention the fact that the relocation was criminal because there were attributes to racism, economic and political opportunism. Basically, the government was apprehending Japanese-Americans homes, stealing their money, land, and other possessions they worked hard