Seventy-six years ago today, February 19, 1942, President Roosevelt signed the executive order that would quickly land 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry in American concentration camps. We now refer to February 19 as the “Day of Remembrance.”
It is common, on this day, to recall the suffering and the resilience of the imprisoned people. Today I choose to remember something different.
What I choose to remember is the uncomfortable fact that it took far more than a presidential signature to land Japanese Americans behind barbed wire and keep them there for years. It took thousands of people -- ordinary people, people with consciences, who set aside whatever pangs of discomfort they felt and showed up to work, day in and day out, to run the system of oppression.
The WALL, Travel Bans. Welcome to 1942, I mean 2018.
Posted by: Deep State Special Legal Counsel | February 19, 2018 at 12:27 PM