Karen Korematsu, daughter of civil rights activist Fred Korematsu, explains his resistance to the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. #AAPIHistoryMonth #AAPIHeritageMonth
Regardless of the possibility of a threat from these Japanese- Americans, 2/3 of them were US citizens. They should have been given due process, and their property safeguarded. It's unlikely that more than a few of them posed any sort of danger to their country (it was their country, as much as any other immigrants), but they weren't white. The German and Italian immigrants weren't rounded up en masse and sent to camps. By the standards of the times, it was acceptable. Let's hope the times have changed.
Most were imprisoned bc of direct ties to Japan and the likely hood of "loyal to your roots" type resistance from inside the US is Possible and Cannot be allowed to Happen
