Are Postal workers civil service employees? If so than you are full of
the brown stuff as I read that " In the mid-1930s, 80 percent of the
letter carriers in Memphis and 75 percent of the letter carriers in
Houston were black".
As for Japanese "growing up in the camps", it must have been a short
childhood as the camps were only in existence from 1942 until 1945 - 3
years.
As for Roosevelt being responsible the actual sequence of events was
as follows:
In February 1942, Lt. Gen. John L. DeWitt, Commanding General of the
Western Defense Command, requested authorization from Secretary of War
Henry L. Stimson to evacuate "Japanese and other subversive persons"
from the West Coast area.
On February 19, President Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order
No. 9066 authorizing the Secretary of War or any military commander to
establish "military areas" and to exclude from them "any or all
persons.
A month later, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order No. 9102
establishing the War Relocation Authority, which eventually operated
the internment camps. Roosevelt named Milton Eisenhower, brother of
the future president, to head the WRA.
The Congress affirmed Executive Order 9066 with the passage of Public
Law 77-503
As for the attitude of the population to these camps:
Given the almost universal condemnation of the Japanese internment
program today, it is hard to realize just how solid support was for it
at the time. The vast operation, as one writer points out, was
"initiated by the generals, advised, ordered and supervised by the
civilian heads of the War Department, authorized by the President,
implemented by Congress, approved by the Supreme Court, and supported
by the people."
Popular movie actor Leo Carillo telegraphed his Congressman:
Why wait until (the Japanese) pull something before we act ...
Let's get them off the coast and into the interior ... May I urge you
in behalf of the safety of the people of California to start action at
once.
In February a delegation of West Coast Congressmen sent a letter to
the President calling for the "immediate evacuation of all persons of
Japanese lineage ... aliens and citizens alike" from the Pacific
coast.
Speaking to southern California on a Lincoln's birthday radio
broadcast, Fletcher Bowron, reform Mayor of Los Angeles, denounced the
"sickly sentimentality" of those who worried about injustices to the
Japanese living in the United States. He told his radio audience that
if Abraham Lincoln were alive, he would round up "the people born on
American soil who have secret loyalty to the Japanese Emperor."
I could go on but what is the use? The truth cannot compete with your
fantasies.
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cheers,
John B.