It is interesting how many time in our history the welcome mat was pulled up, Irish, Italians, Germans, Catholics, Jews, and almost all ethnic/religious/racial groups have been singled out for rejection, by those descendents of the “founding folk” who showed up to have THEIR religious freedom to worship as they chose, and with the intent of forcing everyone else to worship the same way they do. (Adequately stated years ago by a little girl speaking to Art Linkletter.)
Let’s not forget the Japanese and Chinese, put into internment camps by fascist Americans, whose crack-pot racist theories are now promoted by Donald Trump and Ted Cruz.
And we’ve got another Planned Parenthood shooting in Colorado. Proving once again that the threat of terror in America comes from right-wing nut-jobs, not refugees.
I hit the wrong button. To continue… Halsy then reeived a thunderous applause!
With this kind of thinking in mind, just perhaps many of those veryJapanese that were sent to those internment camps very lives were actually saved by thst governmental action. And the camps where young American men (ironically including Japanese who fought on the European fronts) were sent to train to become soldiers were not much more comfortable than the Japanese internment camps were! I know this from personal experience, having spent some short time during my own summer training at some of those very camps during the 1960’s!
So… what I am saying in a comewhat mengthy post is that while tese Japanese Internment Camps were certainly not a proud moment in US History, is was at least an understandable moment. After all, as Genral Shermen stated in the Civil War “War IS Hell!!”. And tha tgoes for everybody involved in such an activity (including the so called winners)!!!
Well, that is what I get for trying to be reasonable on this site. Please note that I stated that at first it was the panic caused by the continuing victories of the Japanese Navy that caused the hatred and even fear of the Japanese. Evidently you have some problem trying to even read a longer more moderate and thoughful post on here? And the kind of thought you made in your last sentence does not belong on a true discussion site. Scrape your monitor, I really do not care!!
I can easily see how a truly moderate poster such as RT no longer posts here, hope it is not because of something happening to that worthy individual!!
My ancestors were posting the no parking signs a little south of Plymouth Rock. My first girlfriend at age 6 was born to American citizens in an internment (concentration) camp in Idaho. The only fatalities on the U.S. mainland occurred near where I live from a Japanese balloon bomb that was intended to start forest fires. Yes, an occasional shelling occurred on the west coast, but the Japanese fleet wasn’t really a great concern.
My ancesters welcomed Europeans, the it was those Europeans that decided who was fit to follow them onto this continent. Xenophobia in that regard is hardly a new thing.
The contributions of Canada during WWII on all fronts were truly excellent!! Our freedoms owe a great deal to the Canadians who have ever been the friends of the USA!!
OmqR-IV.0 over 8 years ago
zing!
(man, this guy is excellent!)
louieglutz over 8 years ago
interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plymouth_Rock
Dtroutma over 8 years ago
It is interesting how many time in our history the welcome mat was pulled up, Irish, Italians, Germans, Catholics, Jews, and almost all ethnic/religious/racial groups have been singled out for rejection, by those descendents of the “founding folk” who showed up to have THEIR religious freedom to worship as they chose, and with the intent of forcing everyone else to worship the same way they do. (Adequately stated years ago by a little girl speaking to Art Linkletter.)
ARodney over 8 years ago
Let’s not forget the Japanese and Chinese, put into internment camps by fascist Americans, whose crack-pot racist theories are now promoted by Donald Trump and Ted Cruz.
ARodney over 8 years ago
And we’ve got another Planned Parenthood shooting in Colorado. Proving once again that the threat of terror in America comes from right-wing nut-jobs, not refugees.
frodo1008 over 8 years ago
I hit the wrong button. To continue… Halsy then reeived a thunderous applause!
With this kind of thinking in mind, just perhaps many of those veryJapanese that were sent to those internment camps very lives were actually saved by thst governmental action. And the camps where young American men (ironically including Japanese who fought on the European fronts) were sent to train to become soldiers were not much more comfortable than the Japanese internment camps were! I know this from personal experience, having spent some short time during my own summer training at some of those very camps during the 1960’s!
So… what I am saying in a comewhat mengthy post is that while tese Japanese Internment Camps were certainly not a proud moment in US History, is was at least an understandable moment. After all, as Genral Shermen stated in the Civil War “War IS Hell!!”. And tha tgoes for everybody involved in such an activity (including the so called winners)!!!
cjr53 over 8 years ago
Plymouth Rock is kept in a cage. (to protect it from souvenir takers.)
frodo1008 over 8 years ago
Well, that is what I get for trying to be reasonable on this site. Please note that I stated that at first it was the panic caused by the continuing victories of the Japanese Navy that caused the hatred and even fear of the Japanese. Evidently you have some problem trying to even read a longer more moderate and thoughful post on here? And the kind of thought you made in your last sentence does not belong on a true discussion site. Scrape your monitor, I really do not care!!
I can easily see how a truly moderate poster such as RT no longer posts here, hope it is not because of something happening to that worthy individual!!
Dtroutma over 8 years ago
My ancestors were posting the no parking signs a little south of Plymouth Rock. My first girlfriend at age 6 was born to American citizens in an internment (concentration) camp in Idaho. The only fatalities on the U.S. mainland occurred near where I live from a Japanese balloon bomb that was intended to start forest fires. Yes, an occasional shelling occurred on the west coast, but the Japanese fleet wasn’t really a great concern.
My ancesters welcomed Europeans, the it was those Europeans that decided who was fit to follow them onto this continent. Xenophobia in that regard is hardly a new thing.
frodo1008 over 8 years ago
The contributions of Canada during WWII on all fronts were truly excellent!! Our freedoms owe a great deal to the Canadians who have ever been the friends of the USA!!