Tuesday, February 20, 2018

I Forgot an Important Democrat Anniversary Yesterday

On February 19, 1942 — seventy-four years ago today — Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066. With the stroke of his pen, the man who had earlier snubbed Jesse Owens after the Berlin Olympics used his executive powers to order the imprisonment of over 100,000 persons of Japanese ancestry (as well as thousands of German and Italian ancestry) for the duration of World War II. [More]
Where were the activist federal judges and the outraged media and celebrities?

[Via Michael G]

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