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re: Was Joe Nagata the first non-white SEC scholarship football player?
Posted on 7/17/22 at 1:22 pm to TrueTiger
Posted on 7/17/22 at 1:22 pm to TrueTiger
The government also harassed his family after Pearl Harbor, ransacked the family store, confiscated money, and took his dad in for questioning. Nagata would serve in the famed 442nd RCT during the war after that 1943 football season.
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Posted on 7/17/22 at 3:31 pm to GetCocky11
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The government also harassed his family after Pearl Harbor, ransacked the family store, confiscated money, and took his dad in for questioning. Nagata would serve in the famed 442nd RCT during the war after that 1943 football season.
And his family never demanded "Reperations"
Posted on 7/17/22 at 4:27 pm to GetCocky11
Applause for his accomplishments and more for his service.
The WWII internments were severe and perhaps overly broad. But at that time they were based on a fear that Japanese-Americans, (and German-Americans for that matter), regardless of their residence time, were 5th columnists whose primary loyalty was to their ancestral island country.
This belief was reinforced by the Niihau Island incident during the attack on Pearl Harbor.…
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Withdrawing after the raid, a shot-up, crippled zero crashed landed on the island which the Japanese planers had designated as a bail out area because they thought it unoccupied. However, it was inhabited by some 200 or so people.
The pilot of the zero was joined by two nippon residents who were US citizens in an attempt to take over the island. Several people were killed before a Hawaiian native killed the pilot and his helpers.
This event sealed the country-wide suspicion about Japanese-American loyalty that lasted for years. You can google the incident if you like.. It is a fact that incident played an important role in the subsequent exile of that community, deserved or undeserved.
My appointed role in this matter is now complete. Y’all have been duly schooled in US history. There will be a test tomorrow, so prepare.
The WWII internments were severe and perhaps overly broad. But at that time they were based on a fear that Japanese-Americans, (and German-Americans for that matter), regardless of their residence time, were 5th columnists whose primary loyalty was to their ancestral island country.
This belief was reinforced by the Niihau Island incident during the attack on Pearl Harbor.…
LINK
Withdrawing after the raid, a shot-up, crippled zero crashed landed on the island which the Japanese planers had designated as a bail out area because they thought it unoccupied. However, it was inhabited by some 200 or so people.
The pilot of the zero was joined by two nippon residents who were US citizens in an attempt to take over the island. Several people were killed before a Hawaiian native killed the pilot and his helpers.
This event sealed the country-wide suspicion about Japanese-American loyalty that lasted for years. You can google the incident if you like.. It is a fact that incident played an important role in the subsequent exile of that community, deserved or undeserved.
My appointed role in this matter is now complete. Y’all have been duly schooled in US history. There will be a test tomorrow, so prepare.
This post was edited on 7/17/22 at 7:24 pm
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