"I'm for catching every Japanese in America, Alaska, and Hawaii now and putting them in concentration camps....Damn them! Let's get rid of them now!"
<Tab/>-Congressman John Rankin, Congressional Record, February 19th, 1942.
<Tab/>If you look through a junior high school history book you find many chapters on World War 2 and how America came in and "saved the day", or you see chapters on how the confederate states had slaves and were racist and again the Union, where the American Government lies, comes in and fights to stop racism. Of course we know the fight had less than 5% to do with racism, the major reason was so the United States of America would still have that word United in front of it, plus the military repercussions of losing a major portion of their county, that held host to many naval bases, was just a problem. The black people really didn't have much to do with that. You never hear about "unjust" racism in Chicago, but it was pretty bad, almost as bad as down in good old Louisiana, but do they want you to know that? No. …
