Monday, October 26, 2009
American Apology
I chose the apology towards Japanese American's for my incident. The surprise attack on Pearl Harbor on December seventh, 1941, acted as a catalyst that put a series of events into action, ultimately leading to the internment of more than 100,000 Japanese Americans. On February 19th, 1942, out of fear of espionage and sabotage, President Roosevelt signed an order that gave permission to relocate any people that posed a threat to American society and property. Japanese Americans, living in a newly created military zone along the western American coast, were forced to abandon their homes with only as much as they could carry. These Americans were brought at gunpoint to barb-wired compounds around the country. Although some people think the internment was necessary it really happened because of unconstitutional racial profiling that led to the unwarranted, unjust, and cruel treatment of Japanese Americans. In 1988 The U.S. Government apologized for the internment with President Reagan's reparations bill. This apology was effective.
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The government definitely needed to apologize for what it did to all of the Japanese-Americans in the early 1940s. They had nothing to do with Pearl Harbor and there's no way that they deserved to be put in internment camps. This was certainly an act of unconstitutional racial profile, as you said. Although you said that there was an apology from the government, you didn't mention why it was effective? What made it so good?
ReplyDeleteI agree that the internment of the Japanese Americans after Pearl Harbor was unwarranted and unjust. Mostly, it was the fear of betrayal within the country that led to the decision to imprison Japanese citizens but the assumption that the Japanese Americans were involved with Pearl Harbor was baseless.
ReplyDeleteWhat was the reparation bill that Reagan offered?
The internment of the Japanese Americans goes completely against American ideology. It is for this reason, as well as justice, that an apology was deserved. However, out of curiosity, were they offered reparations?? How was the apology received? How many years after this situation was an apology finally given?
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