In the JACL Curriculum
and Resource Guide, it is taught to our school children that " The sole
basis for these actions (exclusion/internment etc) was ancestry.
Citizenship, age, loyalty, or innocence of wrongdoing did not matter. Japanese-Americans
were the 'only ones' singled out for mass incarceration. German and Italian
nationals, and American citizens of German and Italian ancestries were 'not'
imprisoned en masse."
That line (of BS) makes good copy for the Japanese editors and writers of the above 'Guide' * to have the students taught, but it is NOT true. Most (56%) of those interned in 1942 were of German and Italian nationality or ancestry. Of the total of the 25,655 interned, 14,456 were German & Italian. This information comes from Arthur Jacobs, who, as a 12-year-old U.S. citizen of German ancestry, was interned at Crystal City, TX. Along with Japanese. (For more information on this click onto : http://www.foitimes.com/internment )
When the Jap Money
Bill (Civil Liberties Act of 1988) was passed, German & Italian internee's
naturally expected to receive the taxpayer's largesse of $20,000
Tax free and an apology for their " wartime suffering" too.
When they had the audacity to ask Congress (under the leadership of Art Jacobs)
For their rightful share of this windfall, many Japanese and others have said
"The Germans and Italians were interned for 'cause', whereas the Japanese
were interned for racist reasons."
When the late, great patriot Lillian Baker raised questions re: the statement
Mineta called her a "kook" **.
Among those Japanese who were interned (held in confinement for the duration of the war in Dept. of Justice camps) , in addition to Jap nationals, were 3,500 Japanese-Americans (U.S. citizens) who renounced their U.S. Citizenship and demanded expatriation to Japan, 160 members of the anti-American/pro-Japan Black Dragon Society; and 18,000 expatriates and repatriates confined to the Tule Lake Segregation Center who declared allegiance to Japan and rejected allegiance to the U.S.
These were certainly
not "innocent of wrongdoing" or "loyal to the U.S.'
The JACL Curriculum & Resource Guide (for public school teachers) is certainly
not truthful in its goal to "educate" the children of the USA regarding
the 1940s exclusion/relocation/internment of "any and all persons"
(EO 9066).
Those editors and writers of the JACL Curriculum & Resource Guide, in its goal to (re)educate our school children are politically correct ( by today's standards) but they are historically Incorrect ! Parents should encourage their children to ask questions………lots of questions, when these "history lessons" are the subject of the day-at their school.
It is a well-known
fact that Japan has implemented such revision of its World War II involvement,
painting itself as the victim of the aggressor. The USA.
The writers and editors of the JACL C&R Guide-listed below-have taken
lessons from their Japan cousins in revising history to align with their pre-conceived
agenda.
*The JACL Asian American Curriculum Project Editors and writers:
Florence M. Hongo, Miyo Burton, Andrea Kuroda, Ruth Sasaki, Cheryl Tanaka, ,Takako Endo, Sadeo Kinoshita, Katherine Reyes, Donald Y>Sekimra, Shizue Yoshina.
** For information
on Lillian Baker's books on this subject-click on:
http://www.pnwbooks.com
or http://www.internment.org for more information on this subject
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