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L.A. County Board to vote on repealing support of WWII Japanese internment
 I don't like it either, but it was war, not Tiddlywinks. And we finished it in three years and everyone got on with their lives rather than suffered for the next twenty years before declaring victory and walking away leaving things undecided. It bugs me that we could have easily taken care of their houses for them in the meanwhile rather than giving them a week to sell, and we could have put them on their feet better after the war was over, but I don't know the details. Maybe we should get the Japanese government to apologize for making us do what we had to do. Makes about as much sense.The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors is expected to vote Wednesday on repealing a resolution made seven decades ago supporting the internment of Japanese Americans shortly after Japan's Pearl Harbor attacks, which led the United States to enter World War II. "Seventy years ago, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted itself onto the wrong side of history," Los Angeles County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas said in a statement in which he announced he'll introduce the motion Wednesday to repeal the board's action. The board voted unanimously to endorse President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Executive Order 9066 in February 1942 that put 120,000 Japanese Americans, about a third from Los Angeles County, in internment camps for up to three years, Ridley-Thomas said. The board said it was difficult "if not impossible to distinguish between loyal and disloyal Japanese aliens." Ridley-Thomas said his motion "will seek to address a historic wrong." Actor George Takei, who played Mr. Sulu on the television series "Star Trek," is expected to be among those testifying in support of the motion and recalling his experience as a boy taken from his Los Angeles home and placed in horse stalls at the Santa Anita racetrack. Takei and his family were then sent to internment camps in Rohwer, Arkansas, and Tule Lake, California. Posted by: gorb 2012-06-06 |
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