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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsA mini history lesson about the concentration camps on American soil.
http://www.upworthy.com/a-mini-history-lesson-about-the-concentration-camps-on-american-soil?c=upw1During World War II, a young boy was forced from his home with his family, placed on a cramped train, and sent to an isolated camp across the country with no knowledge of when he would be able to return home. He and his family were confined to camps for years, solely on the basis of their ethnicity.
This isnt the story of an inhumane atrocity that happened across an ocean or in another country. It happened on U.S. soil in 1942.
And the young boy in this story is George Takei, the "Star Trek" actor, who was one of more than 117,000 Japanese-Americans detained in U.S. concentration camps during the early 1940s. He talked about his experience on Democracy Now!:
JonathanRackham
(1,604 posts)CBGLuthier
(12,723 posts)Will government soldiers hunt down those who try to leave? Are families ripped apart? Is land stolen and people forced into the inner city? Are citizens forced to take loyalty oaths?
JonathanRackham
(1,604 posts)Gentrification, incarceration, overzealous police.
yellerpup
(12,249 posts)This is the first thing I think of when I hear of concentration camps on American soil. Wado.
MichMan
(11,790 posts)eridani
(51,907 posts)If you don't have New Deal programs in the first place, you can't expand them later to include minorities.
meow2u3
(24,745 posts)The Great Depression would look as if there were no end. Dixiecrats would have cut off their noses to spite their faces the same way teabaggers do now.
FDR had a tough choice: Adopt the New Deal, even if it meant throwing minorities under the bus or expand New Deal programs to include minorities, which would have been the ND's death knell. He chose the former for the sake of putting men (women still were expected to be the homebodies) to work. If he picked the latter, bigoted Dixiecrats in his own party would have voted down the entire New Deal and the Great Depression would have been seemingly indefinite.
eridani
(51,907 posts)The foundation had been laid for the ND.
madokie
(51,076 posts)The last tower just went down in the last few years. It's a pox on any and all of us the way the Japanese Americans were treated.