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In reply to the discussion: Nov. 22, 1963: 50 years, and still no conspiracy|Op Ed LA Times [View all]BootinUp
(47,141 posts)but others might be. You will have to click the link as its a long article and I will not attempt to secure a piece here or there to make the authors point.
The Unacknowledged Lesson: Earl Warren and the Japanese Relocation Controversy
G. Edward White
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Warren's confession of error in the Japanese relocation controversy raises several questions. How did Earl Warren, one of the most vigorous advocates of civil liberties in the history of the Supreme Court, come to advocate and defend a policy that constituted a wholesale deprivation of the civil rights of Japanese-Americans? How could Warren, a principal force behind the Court's unanimous attack on racism in Brown v. Board of Education and its progeny, have ignored the racist character of the relocation, which was imposed only against Japanese nationals and aliens, leaving unaffected people of Italian or German origin? How did Warren, a champion of equality and fairness under the law as chief justice, justify the patently inequitable nature of a relocation process reserved only for Japanese? And why did Warren, whose strength of convictions was well-known to his acquaintances, who almost never admitted that he had been wrong on an issue, and who rarely changed his mind once he had formed an opinion, decide to recant on the Japanese relocation issue? An examination of these questions takes one inside the mind of one of America's least penetrable public figures.
* A documented copy of this essay is in the author's possession; footnotes have been omitted from this version. Quotations ascribed to Earl Warren are principally from The Memoirs of Earl Warren (1977).
http://www.vqronline.org/articles/1979/autumn/white-unacknowledged-lesson/