Chinese Exclusion Act

[Brian-M]

True but everything there is poisonous.

Venomous.
(If you're going to exaggerate, at least use the right word.)

 

[paximperium]

Let's not forget Japanese internment campes.

An apology was issued by the US Senate in 1988

 

[BaaBaa]

a good bad half of the usa was an apartheid state until 1964.

ftfy

 

[KingMerv00]

An apology was issued by the US Senate in 1988

An apology should have been issued in 1942.

 

[paximperium]

An apology should have been issued in 1942.

A bit difficult to apologize for an event that was ongoing
What you meant was that it should not have happened.

Even the service of the 442nd Regiment Combat Team/100th Battalion did not erase the racism directed against Japanese Americans after the war.

 

[KingMerv00]

A bit difficult to apologize for an event that was ongoing
What you meant was that it should not have happened.

That's exactly what I meant. I was making a joke.

 

[Baylor]

The most ironic (is that the right word here) apology was the U.S. govt's apology for the Indian Removal Act. Andrew Jackson creates a murderous policy which dwindles the Natives numbers down to near-genocide levels. Over a century later, the govt apologizes and gives the natives' decendents money for their ancestors' suffering. When they go cash their check from the U.S. treasury, whose face is on the paper bills they receive? Andrew Jackson.

 

[MaGZ]

Let's not forget Japanese internment campes.

...or the German and Italian internment camps that existed in the USA.

 

[MaGZ]

An apology should have been issued in 1942.

Less than a month after Pearl Harbor? Your, joking right?

 

[MaGZ]

The most ironic (is that the right word here) apology was the U.S. govt's apology for the Indian Removal Act. Andrew Jackson creates a murderous policy which dwindles the Natives numbers down to near-genocide levels. Over a century later, the govt apologizes and gives the natives' decendents money for their ancestors' suffering. When they go cash their check from the U.S. treasury, whose face is on the paper bills they receive? Andrew Jackson.

While we're at it, lets apologize to Great Britain for starting that awful war in 1776.

 

[Silly Green Monkey]

Less than a month after Pearl Harbor? Your, joking right?

It makes sense to you to blame Americans for the actions of the Japanese?

 

[ServiceSoon]

I'm more in the camp that an apology that doesn't come directly from the offender or given directly to the offended has little value.

 

[Mark6]

You say "America", I say "Australia"...what's the difference, really?

Two sides of the same coin... err... sphere?

 

[KingMerv00]

...or the German and Italian internment camps that existed in the USA.

Interning any ethnicity in that way was wrong.

Less than a month after Pearl Harbor? Your, joking right?

No. Internment was a paranoid and disgusting act. It was then and it remains so now.