Posted on 04/16/2010 9:34:35 AM PDT by Mobile Vulgus
Why is it that lefties always get history wrong? The Jewish World Review recently published an editorial by NPR commentator Cokie Roberts and her hubby meant to urge the country toward "comprehensive" immigration reform by praising America's history of immigrant labor. But even as much of what the two Roberts say is dead on, there are still a few glaring errors one of which is their claim that Japanese interment during WWII was an immigration issue.
Cokie, whose full name is a mouthful -- Mary Martha Corinne Morrison Claiborne Boggs -- garbled history at the tail of her piece by saying that the interment of Japanese during WWII was little but "anti-immigrant sentiment"...
Read the rest at Publiusforum.com...
**facepalm**
Did anyone see these moron “journalists” on Jeopardy?? With the easiest questions ever, they FAIL bad.
And here I never knew we buried the Japanese.
Hmm.
What did burying Japanese have to do with immigration? ;)
The American Indians found out what happens when you don't control immigration.
We're finding out as well....we ARE the current indigenous tribe and just as dispensable.
Yep. That’s why I posted it.
Have not heard from Kookie in a while.
Cokie is merely trying her best to equate illegal immigrants with the Japanese internment. However, the Japanese and their sons and daughters who were American citizens, did not enter this country illegally. Nor were they engaged in illegal activities, such as getting paid under the table, not paying withholding, etc. The internment debacle was a stupid wartime measure. It had nothing to do with immigration.
Reminds me of a line from an old song, “Minnie the Moocher’s Wedding Day”:
“Million cokies singin’ hidee-hidee-hey!
The King of Spain is gonna give the bride away!”
);>)
Well if they told the truth about history it would always show them as being on the wrong side of it!
As a side note, a former roommate of mine told me that her parents were interned. They were happy to go, as they feared the hostility of other Americans and felt safer in the camp. The camps were not like concentration camps. They had barbed wire around them to keep people out, not to keep people in. It is hard for us to imagine the climate at that time.
And here I never knew we buried the Japanese.Um, that would be interred, not interned. The article says interned.
The Japanese Internment (and the Italian and German Internment here on the East Coast) was a national security issue.
IMHO, the barbarian invasions (aka “illegal immigration”) are also a national security issue.
Um, no it doesn't. I see "interment" 3 times alone just in the above excerpt.
It didn't make any sense, each little group of stone age people that lived on this land mass fought for whatever they wanted and to live wherever they wanted to live and were driven out or ceased to exist when a more powerful tribe came along, might made right. There was no single "tribe" with immigration laws and defined national boundaries.
You’re too complicated.
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