Since when have the masses, going to public school, been taught any real history?
On Aug 7, 1:35 pm, jgg1000a <[email protected]> wrote: > Often it is seen a a stain in US history, but was the policy driven by > Liberals or Conservatives??? This like the Red Scare of 1919, and > the original House on unAmerican Activities was Liberal policies... > > But history is often rewritten by the elite when they think the > unwashed masses are ignorant... > > http://www.slate.com/id/2224159/ > > >>> In the United States, and especially in California, the war against > >>> Japanese imperialism was also accompanied by collective punishment of > >>> Japanese-Americans and the sequestration of their persons and property. > >>> When I first came to the Bay Area in 1970, I was introduced by Carey > >>> MacWilliams, a great historian of the state, to Lou Goldblatt of the > >>> longshoremen's union, one of the very few public figures to have opposed > >>> the indiscriminate internment. It was a crime committed largely by > >>> liberals like Earl Warren, as many people prefer to forget, and was even > >>> supported at the time by the Communist Party. (Actually, why do I say > >>> even? Communists by then were getting pretty used to supporting mass > >>> roundups and deportations.) > > Hatred and fear and bigotry were probably never more general or more > strongly felt than against Japanese people in America in the period > between Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima/Nagasaki, and Hollywood and the > comic book industry kept the feeling alive for some years afterward. > Speaker Sam Rayburn of Texas drew howls of laughter when he said a > kind word to young Rep. Daniel Inouye, who had lost a limb fighting > for America in Europe, and—thanked for taking the trouble to notice > the newcomer—roared: "Ain't no trick to it! How many one-armed Japs we > got around here?"* (Actually, I think that was pretty funny.) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
