Japanese-Americans came out with Arab-Americans calling for
peace and tolerance in Japantown. With terrorists attacks around the world
making the news in recent months, the incidents of racially-motivated attacks
on Arabs living in United States have increased all over the country. If California have incidents of such attacks, imagine the
number of incidents in Middle America. I used
to live in the south and southeastern part of the country and I know people who
live there are not as liberal as Californians.
This show of solidarity by Japanese-Americans in support of
Muslims and Arab-Americans in this country shows that they have not forgotten
the internment camps they had to face in World War 2. There are survivors from
the camps who were present to voice their opposition to the prejudice that Arab-Americans
endured. After all, the Japanese-American survivors experienced the same thing
that Arab-Americans are going through right now.
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