Alan wrote: > The other opinions that need to be taken into account are that our > Pacific fleet was weakended and there were large amounts of > Japanese-Americans located on the western coast of the US. There was > concern as to their loyalty. Using today as an example, a recent poll of > Arab-Americans showed that 43% oppose our attacks in Afghanistan.
But what about all those German immigrants living on the Eastern seaboard of the USA....hmm... Reading the British ULTRA memos, the British were damned concerned about them being in the USA. I guess all these durn books I been reading on the de-humanization of Japanese and other Asian immigrants in America in the 1920s and 1930s are just PC baloney then, right Alan??? Hmm, let's see there are the 1917, 1918, 1921, and 1924 immigration acts, organizations like the Native Sons of the Golden West who lobbied for laws against Asians owning property in the Western USA (they came into existence after 1921). Maybe legal-eagle Paul can give us some more advice with the Supreme Court rulings. From what I read there is the 1922 Ozawa versus the United States, which ruled that since the Jpaanese and other Asian groups were not present at the creation of the republic in the 1790s, they and their descendants could not be considered eligible for citizenship. And of course, I guess the 1926 Supreme Court ruling on the Farrrington, Governor of Hawaii vs. Tokushige et. al. didn't deal with racist matters either (whether Asian Americans could set up their own private schools, which the state of Hawaii opposed). Which this last is ironic, since California at the time wanted to ban them from even attending public schools! I guess Senator Chester H. Rowell's 1913 editorial in the Fresno Republican, didn't deal with racist matters either. Heck, I'll even quote: "Injustice has been the only American way of meeting a race problem. We dealt unjustly with the Indian, and he died. We dealt unjustly with the negro, and he submits. If Japanese ever come in sufficient numbers to constitute a race problem, we shall deal with them unjustly." He also made a similar speech in Congress in hearings for the 1924 Immigration Act. > There was no need to "construct" these opinions (the non-racism of the > interment) in any particular way. Rather it is those who ignore these facts > who I believe are trying to "construct" a case for racism as the motive > behind the interment. Racism is ONE of the elements in it...I look forward to your dismissal of the above. And like I said, what about all those German descendants and German communities on the Eastern seaboard and in the Midwest??? Or does your logic only apply to Asians? Later, MEH
