The ANNOTICO Report
The Japanese Americans refer to the Civil Rights Violations
visited on them
during WWII as Enemy Aliens. BUT, why is it, that
when the Japanese
Americans tell their story, that they Completely
FORGET to mention that
similar Restrictions were placed on Italian and German
Americans.
I find it difficult to have ANY Empathy for Japanese Americans
when they
completely IGNORE fellow Americans that SUFFERED the
same indignities, and
act as if they were the Sole victims.
It is exponentially magnified when one realizes that 600,000
Italian
Americans were classified and treated as Enemy Aliens,
300,000 German
Americans, and only 110,000 Japanese Americans.
Heaping insult on Injury, the Japanese collected $3 BILLION,
The Italians
and Germans ZERO!
It is hard to keep a straight face, when the Japanese
Americans claim the
Enemy Alien Act was Racist. 9out of 10 affected
were European ancestry.
Una Storia Segreta: http://www.segreta.org/
Virginia Tech
Collegiate Times
April 21, 2005
In the article “Japanese internment facts presented” (CT,
April 19), it is
reported: "Japanese internment in the United States is
often overlooked or
glossed over in current educational curriculum … "
Here is what the author did not report: during World
War II, almost 11,000
German Americans and approximately 3,500 Italian Americans
were interned as
well.
And it is not true that Japanese American internment is
overlooked or
glossed over in the current education curriculum. Here
are the facts:
almost 37 percent, 24 of the nation’s 65 largest urban
public school
districts, refer to Japanese American internment in their
social
studies/history curriculum standards. None of the 24
that mention Japanese
American internment makes any reference to the fact that
German Americans
were also interned.
More than two-thirds, 35 of the 50 states, include Japanese
American
internment in their social studies/history curriculum
standards. None of
the 50 states include German American or Italian American
internment in
their social studies/history curriculum standards.
Major Arthur D. Jacobs
USAF Retired