U.S : Japanese internment was racism legalized by SCOTUS.

 

 

 

Friend, sign the petition: Congress must act to prevent horrors like Japanese internment from happening again.

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As a young man, Fred Korematsu filed a lawsuit against the United States for its forcible internment of over 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II. He is a civil rights icon that too few people know about.

Congress has introduced a package of bills in the House and Senate to not only honor Korematsu's bravery and commitment, but to guarantee that rounding up and imprisoning people based explicitly on race, religion, sexuality, or ideology does not happen in the U.S. again.

Unfortunately Trump's Muslim ban, the far right's "grooming" panic about LGBTQ people, and the hysteria over Black history together with the mainstreaming of violent white nationalism all prove we need this protection from the federal government. We cannot afford to assume forced internment is a horror of the past.

Sign the petition: Congress must pass the Korematsu-Takai Civil Liberties Protection Act.

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