Pictorial Travel Diary - Day 2 - Herd 'em Up

Pictorial Travel Diary - Day 2 - Herd 'em Up
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“JAPS KEEP MOVING
This is a White Man's Neighborhood.

HERD ‘EM UP, PACK ‘EM OFF
AND GIVE ‘EM THE INSIDE ROOM
IN THE BADLANDS. LET ‘EM BE PINCHED,
HURT, HUNGRY AND DEAD UP AGAINST IT…
PERSONALLY, I HATE THE JAPANESE,
AND THAT GOES FOR ALL OF THEM.


No single cause can explain the exclusion of Japanese Americans
as an entire ethnic group from the West Coast. A number of social,
political, and historical factors contributed to President Franklin D.
Roosevelt’s decision to grant the U.S. Army the authority it sought.
Beginning in the late 1800s, labor leaders in western states
exploited anti-Asian sentiment to protect jobs for Euro American
workers. Local politicians and newspapers amplified this prejudice
to win electoral races and attract readership. As the nation still
mourned its loss at Pearl Harbor, news reports of an isolated
attack by a Japanese submarine on the California coast and the
sensationalized ‘Battle of Los Angeles’ inflamed public support
for mass removal.”