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At one point in Justice Sonia Sotomayor's ringing dissent from last week's Supreme Court decision upholding Donald Trump's ban on travelers from a group of nations, most of them with Muslim-majority populations, she recounts his many insults against followers of Islam. Though most of us can likely recall his bigotry clearly enough without a refresher, it's worth quoting at some length to appreciate the stunning depth, breadth and constancy of Trump's prejudice.
For decades, Karen Korematsu has hoped and prayed that someday the U.S. Supreme Court would overturn its infamous 1944 decision upholding the mass incarceration of her father, Fred, and 120,000 others of Japanese descent during World War II. Karen Korematsu, daughter of Fred Korematsu, held a publication from the Korematsu Institute that depicted her father on the cover.
The opportunity to revisit the ruling presented itself in a dissenting opinion by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, which compared the internment of Japanese-Americans to groups affected by the Trump travel ban. Chief Justice John Roberts rejected the comparison, but said the reference to Korematsu v.
Countless Americans are expressing outrage at the separation of almost 2,000 children from their parents who illegally crossed the U.S.-Mexico border in a recent six-week period.
The emotional policy of separating children from their parents is also starting to divide Republicans and their allies as Democrats turn up the pressure. Former first lady Laura Bush called the policy "cruel" and "immoral" while GOP Sen. Susan Collins expressed concern about it and a former adviser to President Donald Trump said he thought the issue was going to hurt the president at some point.
As Americans look back and honor service members across the country on Veterans Day, one unit's work is largely left out of the mainstream conversation. With the motto "Go for broke," the unit was made up of Japanese-Americans who served the U.S. during World War II - a time of rampant anti-Japanese sentiment.
But that doesn't stop us from turning our backs on refugees who've been displaced by war and persecution. Nor does it rule out other behaviors that seem less than Christ-like: Health care is still a luxury; discrimination based on gender, ethnicity, economic status and sexual orientation continues; white nationalists chant Nazi slogans in torch-lit processions, while our president tacitly cheers them on.
Two armed American border guards confront a group of immigrants attempting to cross illegally from Mexico into the United States in 1948. I want to expand on something that came up in this thread from the other day: how whiteness might include Latinos in the future.
Dozens of descendants of Japanese soldiers killed in World War II visited Pearl Harbor in Hawaii on Thursday to pay respects to fallen American soldiers. Nippon Izokukai, the Bereaved Family Association of Japan, sent about 36 children, grandchildren and other relatives of fallen Japanese soldiers to the U.S. to mark the 70th anniversary of the group's founding.
States in the American West are marking the 75th anniversary of the signing of Executive Order 9066 by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt that forced 120,000 Japanese immigrants and Japanese-Americans into internment camps. Adults, including the elderly, and children could only bring what they could carry and were transported by bus and train, often with blacked-out windows, They were sent, ostensibly to avoid sabotage and spying, to camps in California, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, Arizona and other states as far away as Arkansas.
Hold These Truths is a one-person show that tells the story of Gordon Hirabayashi and his resistance of the forced imprisonment of Japanese-Americans during World War II. About 200 Japanese-Americans from Alaska and 880 Unangax people were put in camps during the war.
A new large photo book has just been published called Un-American: The Incarceration of Japanese Americans During World War II. People who support creating a Muslim registry should take a look.
Just in time for the 2016 election, San Francisco PBS affiliate KQED is offering a Common Core-ready lesson plan designed for public school teachers who want to indoctrinate students with a love for open borders and a deep suspicion of anyone who favors the immigration restrictions proposed by Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. The lesson plan - which comes complete with "safe space" suggestions - is offered by way of a section of the taxpayer-funded television station's website called "The Lowdown" .