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In article <BxGMKo.1BC@inews.Intel.COM>, jreece@sousa.intel.com (John Reece) writes:
> In article <19921109025407IYI4DTN@MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU>, IYI4DTN@MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU (Gann Matsuda) writes:
# # DURING WORLD WAR II, more than 120,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry
# # were rounded-up and imprisoned in American concentration camps.  No
# # charges were ever filed.  No trials were held... 
# 
# We know the story.  It's virtually the only WWII episode 
# contemporary news media are interested in playing up....
# 
# And 1/3 of those interned were not US citizens, but bona fide 
# enemy aliens.

Residents of the U.S. prohibited by U.S. law from becoming U.S.
citizens until 1952.  Not QUITE the same thing.  White enemy aliens 
had the option of correcting that problem before the war.

# # Some fifty years later, UCLA has joined the Japanese American community
# # in Los Angeles and across the nation in commemorating the fiftieth
# # anniversary of this tragic chapter in American History.  We hope you
# # will join us for the concluding events of this important year of
# # activities.. 
# 
# My father commanded a unit of amphibious tractors/troop carriers at 
# Saipan, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, etc...  Funny how local authorities aren't
# falling all over themselves to play up his sacrifices, or those of 
# the other 11 million who served in the US armed forces.
# 
# John Reece			"This lifeboat is full"	

That shouldn't surprise you.  It's much more entertaining to 
show all that America has done wrong, than to give a balanced
portrayal.



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Racism is "class struggle" applied to ethnicity.