The Japanese Have Disappeared
February 5, 2023 @ 11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Hugh Taft-Morales
Leader, Philadelphia Ethical Society
“The Japanese have disappeared.” That disembodied voice in Julie Otsuka’s novel The Buddha in the Attic was speaking about the 120,000 innocent citizens of Japanese descent consigned to internment camps during World War II. Considered among the worst-ever Supreme Court decisions, Korematsu v. United States stood 74 years, until it was overturned in Trump v. Hawaii. It was justice grievously delayed. Hugh urges us never to forget the words of the plaintiff, Fred Korematsu: “Fears and prejudices directed against minority communities are too easy to evoke and exaggerate, often to serve the political agendas of those who promote those fears.”
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