日系 Nikkei Ancestry

It’s nice to see this information is getting in the news.  So many people don’t know about Executive Order 9066 and what happened to these American’s and their families based on their ancestry.  Some elderly people don’t even know about it.  Not to long ago, I mentioned the incarceration to a neighbor in a conversation once, and she didn’t know about that, she’s 89.   She also didn’t know about the anti miscegenation laws, that prevented Caucasian’s from marrying anyone of Japanese ancestry, it’s amazing what people don’t know about or don’t care to know.

Japanese American Citizens League
The Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) applauds Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor for her comments that the massive incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II was a mistake and that detention solely based on race is wrong.

Judge Sotomayer’s reply to Senator Feingold

Never Rule From Fear | 3:04 p.m. In trying to get at rulings made during wartime, Senator Feingold mentions the World War II decision Korematsu v. United States (in 1944), which permitted the detention in camps of citizens of Japanese descent. (A brief explanation of the case here.)

“A judge should never rule from fear,” Judge Sotomayor says in a very strong voice. “A judge should rule from the law and the Constitution.” She calls it “inconceivable” that a decision today would permit the arrest and detention of people based solely on their race.

It’s that lack of knowledge in a society that causes things to creep up on us again and again, it might not be happening to the Japanese this time, but it’s happening to other groups of people based on who they are.  The LGBT community is currently the target of religious extremist pushing their own social “conservatism” views on others who don’t belong to those particular groups, much less their particular religious faith.  They’re using fear as the same tool and manipulating lies in order to get people to turn and attack the LGBT community, and their families based on their religious fears.

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