Pearl Harbor Japanese Internment Analysis

“No one should ever be locked away simply because they share the same race,ethnicity and religion as a spy.” - Fred Korematsu. This quote represents what had enacted with multiple japanese americans due to the executive order of 1942. Conceptualize ,your family came from the race of japanese. Then someone of your race bombs a military base in Oahu,Hawaii called Pearl Harbor. The following day as you walk through your class, eyes glance at you with wrath. The voices come across the room. “Terrorist” “bomber” “you telling our secrets”! This is what kids, yes kids had to face in the year of 1941 and still too today. Which makes me think the japanese American internment was not necessary to be developed at all because they had a right as citizenship, it was unconstitutional and they lost their livelihood. …show more content…
In the poem by dwight okita it is said “ I am a fourteen year old girl with bad spelling and a messy room I have always felt funny using chopsticks.” “she was sitting on the other side of the room. Your trying to start a war “. This means that this little girl that was around my age when she first encountered racism. Racism and not being shown what a true american citizen is. It wasn’t her fault that someone of her race was a terrorist. She was just like a normal american, going to school to get an education,living her life as a american. Until that one moment in class when deinse her “friend” betrayed her due to what half of her was. Therefore she was not treated as a citizen of