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21. During the Great Earthquake and Tsunami in Japan a few years back

I remember seeing comments on twitter like, "They got what they deserved for bombing Pearl Harbor" ...like as if the two bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki were not enough. When this was pointed out to them, their comments were "We should have finished the job, and nuked the entire country out of existence, and then come back for those in interment camps and treated them, like the Nazi's treated the Jews".

This was an actual comment. Some of the race hatred is still around today.. though the war has long been over. People have said nasty things to me, despite the fact I had not even been born than.. yet some how I am connected to all of it.

It simply makes me sad...to think about it. My parents were born in Hawaii, to Japanese immigrants...I don't know what happened to my grand parents during that time, no one in my family will ever speak about it. I know here on the mainland Japanese were sent to internment camps, I assume they had the same thing in Hawaii...but again, my parents will not talk about it, its a forbidden subject.