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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: E who wrote (660279)	11/14/2004 8:01:30 PM
From: Johannes Pilch	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Why, despite the existence of the huge German-American pro-Nazi Bund, vocal supporters of Hitler, my German family wasn't imprisoned and impoverished? Because the Krauts didn't bomb us: the filthy Japs did. Why was it okay not to imprison and impoverish Japanese families in Hawaii? Because they were in Hawaii, and heck, Hawaii didn't even seem like part of America. It was just this tropical Hulaland far removed from the REAL America and therefore it did not appear to present much of a threat to most REAL Americans. Why was it was okay to send them to places like this: Oh, that's easy. We sent them because they were filthy Japs. They bombed us, the dogs, and we wanted to get back at them. But we finally gave them their due when we bombed two of their cities. Yessir! We taught THEM a thing or two, didn't we? -------------------------------------------------------------- I think we need to be honest. Much of what your opponents have claimed is quite true. There were likely quite a few Americans who were concerned for the safety of the Japanese. But had the Japanese been "good" white folk, AIN' NO COTTON PICKIN' WAY they would have been put in a dang concentration camp. Had the Dutch bombed us, for example, we would not have rounded up Dutch-Americans. Japanese ethnicity surely played a large part in what happened to them. One merely needs to read the literature of the times and view film clippings, to see how free we were in our racism.