Some of the disheartening issues individuals who didn’t imply to offend me have stated (straight) to me has been publish 9/11 once they categorical their perception that folks of Center Japanese descent, or those that are Muslim, must be “rounded up” and moved out to a abandoned space or shipped again to the place they got here from.
My reply to them is at all times the identical: “It’s that mentality that led to my household being imprisoned for nearly 4 years throughout WWII. They had performed nothing unsuitable but they had been uprooted from the West Coast and moved to Coronary heart Mountain, WY the place they lived behind barbed wire in an uninsulated shack. It was as unsuitable, unjust, and unAmerican then as it will be to do it once more now to a distinct group of individuals.”
My Household
I’ve additionally had a number of folks inform me it was for my household’s personal good, for his or her safety from racism, that they had been interned, their freedom stripped away from them. My reply to them is at all times that it that had been so it will have been a voluntary option to be moved into the sanctuary of the internment camps if folks felt unsafe.
So in the event you deliver up this topic to me please don’t be shocked once I defend any group from being racially or religiously profiled or stereotyped. Not sufficient folks stood up for my household once they had been taken away. I can’t be one of many quiet ones if it occurs once more.
