Our Darkest Day 

     We were told to leave our home. We did not know where to go, or for how long. We were still required to pay the mortgage and taxes on our property. Otherwise, California law permitted banks and the state to take over "abandoned properties." We were labeled as criminals because...

     Because they were of Japanese origin in America, 1942. They lost their liberty with no lawyers (or Donald Trump) to fight for them. 

Excerpts from Smithsonian

     Views shares this because it reminds us that we white Americans primarily of English origin are capable of hating our neighbors, not loving as God commands. German or Italian origin...similar deal. 

     Most Japanese immigrants lived in Hawaii and the western U.S. One was an electrical engineer in our Pennsylvania factory, spared only when his management vouched for him. 

     White Americans and Japanese immigrants worked and lived side by side. The Japanese had difficulty gaining citizenship, but when successful financially, neighbors resented them. [And forcing native Indians out of the East, replacing them with slaves from Africa]. This had nothing to do with Pearl Harbor, which had not yet occurred. 

     The bombing on Dec. 7, 1941, brought resentment into the open, disguised as patriotism. The FBI arrested more than 1,200 Japanese community leaders on the West Coast. They identified them as "suspect enemy aliens." Remember who was our president ("This day shall live in infamy!") at the time. 

     Years later, a woman told how agents suddenly appeared and taken people away. Politicians exploited the anger toward Japan to rally voters. Newspapers used it to sell papers. Cartoonists, including Dr. Seuss, portrayed Japanese in America in the most humiliating way. 

  Tuesday: FDR's Executive Order