Disagree on Japanese Internment during WWII.
We were in a State of National Emergency. It was challenged twice
before SCOTUS during the War and prevailed both times.
The side show ruling 40 years later had little bearing on its legality.
It protected the Country and it protected those Japanese Americans
on the West Coast.
Well we can disagree- the Supreme Court was wrong then- and it still ranks with Dredd Scott as among the worst Supreme Court decisions made.
We were in a national emergency- but it was not necessary- and it was illegal. It was driven largely by racism- Hawaii never interned its Japanese Americans and both Hawaii and its Japanese Americans both survived.
In perspective
The Japs were evil, enemies of the state who attacked Pearl Harbor
In racist United States, they were not treated that badly
Japanese were enemies of the state.
Japanese Americans were U.S. citizens whose ancestors came from Japan- and were Americans- not enemies of the state.
Like slavery, Jim Crow and the destruction of the American Indians- it is one of the great mistakes of America.