White Trash House.
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According to Justice Denied, people were afraid to leave the camps.
The end of mass exclusion did not spell the end of hardship for the evacuees. Throughout 1945, evacuees returned to the West Coast, not only from the camps, but also from interior states where they had been resettled. For many, leaving the camps was as traumatic as entering them. However unpleasant their lives in camp, it was preferable to an unknown, possibly hostile reception on the West Coast. By January 1945, only one of every six Issei had left.120 Now they would have to be persuaded to leave.121 Suicides, especially among elderly bachelors, were reported.122 Many were frightened, particularly of reintegrating with whites after the segregated life of the camps.123 Some came to resettlement lacking self-esteem, and perhaps identifying with the stereotypes that had been projected upon them.124 Some felt shame when they were let out of camp.125 A great many felt the burden of starting over, at an older age and for a second time.126 After encouraging everyone to leave and scheduling closing dates for each camp, the WRA finally gave the remaining evacuees train fare to the point of their Evacuation and made them leave. 127
And here how George Takai describes the closing of Tula Lake in his auto biography To the Stars.
When Daddy gravely made the announcement at lunch in the mess hall, a group of older men silently got up and left without eating lunch. Later, when I went to the latrine, that bald-headed man was standing by himself shouting at whoever passed by, “It’s a lie. Don’t believe it. It’s another trick." But he was a lone voice. There was no hysteria. A strange calm prevailed over once-turbulentTule Lake.
Now we faced a new anxiety, the unknowns of a life outside barbed wire confinement and stripped of everything. There was only one certainty— Camp Tule Lake was closing. February 1946 was announced as the target date. We now had six months to plan for a new home outside in a hostile America.
Then another thunderbolt hit. It was announced that the renunciants of American citizenship were to be “deported” to Japan. November 15, 1945, was the date the first ship was to sail. Mama was scheduled to be on that ship. Her daring sacrifice for our safety had backfired terribly. Daddy and Mama were consumed by this new threat. I remember nights when something would wake me. I’d lie still in the dark and listen to Daddy and Mama engaged in intense, whispered conversations…
The fact that they did not immediately close on VJ Day should not be taken as evidence of injustice. The fact that the legal regime existed for so long after early 1943, when even the War Department recognized that EO 9066 was unjustifiable, serves as better proof of that injustice.
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We’re not talking about all southerners (since some of us here are from or live in the south, thanks very much). We’re talking about this specific case.
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He was a president, not a dictator. He actually had a fair amount of opposition, but he got what he got through in part because of his general popularity. You’re also naive if you think that activists didn’t speak out against his racism - but of course, it was during the middle of a way, and in general opposition was pretty muted.
Because he’s no FDR.
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I was in a private club recently. They had a sign up on the wall by the pool tables:
It wasn’t a typo.
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I read this and thought, “Holy crap, that’s so obvious I don’t know how I missed it!” Like all things that are too obvious to be missed, it’s a great insight.
Trump’s words have nothing to do with the truth. If he says there is a meeting, me means “I want everyone to know I’m taking this seriously” not that there is an actual meeting.
This is far more likely than a meeting being scheduled and staffers putting it together forgetting to invite the VA secretary.
Not in Florida. (Do you feel threatened?)
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