This is the 80th anniversary of Executive Order 9066 signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, which led to the incarceration of 120,000 people of Japanese descent during World War II, including approximately 80,000 American citizens.
The photographer Dorothea Lange captured this shameful episode:
After Pearl Harbor, it was not crazy to be afraid. But this travesty should remind us that even well-grounded fears can render us monsters.
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