Japanese Americans slam Sen. Kennedy for comparing impeachment inquiry to WWII internment
Japanese American groups are slamming Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., for comments he made last week comparing the ongoing impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump to the shameful, discriminatory incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II.
The senator told reporters last Tuesday that it appeared as though the Democrats “are going to give about as much due process to the president as the federal government gave our Japanese American friends during World War II,” referring to the forced removal and incarceration of 110,000 people based solely on race without evidence of wrongdoing, charges or hearings.
Since then, several Japanese American civil rights and social justice groups have spoken out against Kennedy, calling the lawmaker out for making an “offensive,” unparalleled analogy. Tom Ikeda, executive director of Densho, a nonprofit that preserves Japanese American history, said Kennedy’s comment was “using someone else’s traumatic, painful history as a way to avoid accountability.”
“There is no universe in which a public investigation into the president of the United States, one of the most privileged and powerful people in the world, is equivalent to a half-century of racialized hysteria, surveillance and discrimination culminating in the extrajudicial roundup of an entire immigrant community,” Ikeda said.
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There is no low that the Repukes won't stoop to save Dump. This is the most blatant disregard for the atrocities of the internment of Japanese Americans. Not surprising since they love locking up brown children today.
The fact that he carries the name of President John F Kennedy makes me sick. Guess his parents had some hope for him. Instead they birthed a racist monster.