Week 10: Race and Ethnicity

There have been a few dark times in America's history, including slavery.  The interment of Japanese Americans during World War 2 is another time.  With no credible intelligence to suggest that the Japanese in America had anything to do with the attacks on Pearl Harbor they were taken away from their lives and placed in camps.  I don't think that something like this could happen again.  I do not think the government could get away with taking a whole group of people and putting them into camps.  However, after 9/11 people from the Middle East were targeted during airport searches.  I think when attacks happen there is an air of panic and people do not know what to do.  I think that the government made a poor choice by taking out their fear on other Japanese Americans but I understand the situation they were in.  People wanted justice and the government did not know what to do.  The government took too much time to apologize to those they imprisoned and they made too little effort to help them replace the lives they had to leave.  Reading the website taught me that there are still lingering effects on the Japanese people that were imprisoned.  Hopefully we never have to deal with something like this again.