What Is Fdr's Four Freedoms?

In “Four Freedoms”, a speech by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, he discusses how he promised his citizens they deserved these freedoms before World War 2. In his speech, he states, “The fourth is freedom from fear—which, translated into world terms, means a worldwide reduction of armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression against any neighbor— anywhere in the world” (FDR 276). This quote expresses how before any war all United States citizens have the freedom of fear, to be restricted to bear arms, or to commit such an act of aggression anywhere in the world. This explains how citizens are entitled to not be fearful, and having that freedom to not be afraid leads to not defending anything since there's nothing to be fearful of. Yet in this speech, FDR contradicts his own words by causing fear among all Japanese Americans. Furthermore, America lacked the support and protection of all its people to have the freedom of fear, which caused all Japanese Americans to struggle to obtain these freedoms since they
George Takei states what he faced during WWII, “In California at that time, the single most popular political position was “Lock Up The Japs” – (They Called Us Enemy). This depicts how racist the American Government was towards all Japanese Americans, by discriminating against them as this threat without any evidence to support that they bombed Pearl Harbor, besides having Japanese ancestry. Essentially, the American government lacks protection for people’s freedom, especially for Japanese Americans. This created a struggle for George Takei and all Japanese Americans to be allowed these basic freedoms of any other America such as citizenship, owning houses, and even being treated as equal to regular