Internment Lesson Plan Is Under Attack

Has anyone read this yet? Un-fuckin' real! :eyes:


Internment Lesson Plan Is Under Attack

A school program teaches that confining Japanese Americans was a mistake. Some want it to include the opinion that it was just.
 
By Tomas Alex Tizon, Times Staff Writer

BAINBRIDGE ISLAND, Wash. — More than six decades ago, this tranquil island in Puget Sound became roiled in conflict after hundreds of Japanese American residents were forced off the island into World War II internment camps. Neighbors argued, sometimes violently, over the rightness of targeting an entire population based on race.

The argument has surfaced here again, this time over a sixth-grade social studies program that teaches, among other things, that the internment of 110,000 to 120,000 Japanese Americans in the 1940s was a mistake.

A group of residents is demanding that the school board change the program so that it includes different opinions, including the view that the internment was justified. The group also wants to omit discussions that hint at parallels between the internment and the U.S. Patriot Act. Some members say they are prepared to pursue legal action, if necessary.

School officials would consider making "refinements" to the program, but "the basic tenor would remain the same," said Bruce Weiland, president of the Bainbridge Island School Board. The overall message would continue to be that "the internment was a mistake, that it was illegal and it was a tragedy."

More> http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-bainbridge12sep12,1,3947441.story?coll=la-home-nation

or shame. Earth-to-whackos - we have a reality problem....

But they can go and buy it. Taxpayers should not have to fund that message.

If these people were really serious about presenting both sides I might take their critique seriously, but they clearly want the message presented in a way that is sympathetic to the US government.

interning Arabs...

The right truly hates this country

spent part of his childhood in one of those internment camps. He certainly didn't seem to think that it was "just".:(

In 1942 Bainbridge Island, just across Puget Sound from Seattle, was home to approximately 250 Japanese farmers and fisherfolk. On March 24, Lt. General DeWitt, the West Coast commander U.S. Army, issued Civilian Exclusion Order No. 1, ordering the evacuation of all Japanese Americans on the island. This first evacuation became a model for the evacuation of all Japanese Americans from the West Coast.

The Bainbridge Islanders, both aliens and non-aliens (i.e., citizens), were given six days to register, pack, sell or somehow rent their homes, farms and equipment. On Monday, March 30 at 11:00 a.m. these Japanese Americans, under armed guard, were put on the ferry Keholoken to Seattle where they boarded a train to Manzanar in central California. They were not to return to Bainbridge Island for more than four years.

Bainbridge Island Japanese, ordered evacuated from the island by next Monday, went willingly but wistfully...there were aged Japanese, not citizens of this nation; members of a younger generation, who where born in this country and are citizens and younger persons, some as young as 4 years old, who congregated at the registration center.

There was no apparent antagonism to the evacuation order. The aliens and the American-born seemed resigned to the fact that the Army had deemed it necessary for all persons of Japanese blood be removed from the island...there was a great gathering of white friends at Eagledale before the evacuation was completed. These friends, as well as soldiers, gave the departing Japanese every help.

It was a pathetic exodus.

http://www.lib.washington.edu/exhibits/harmony/exhibit/bainbridge.html

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