Liberty and Justice for All - Desert Exile

Every country in the world probably has had a period in it's history that it wishes they could just erase. They want it to disappear from the history books, the timeline, and people’s minds. Unfortunately that’s not how history works. No matter how despicable or problematic something was it was meant to happen. Germany has WWII and Hitler’s reign of terror. Japan their attack on Pearl Harbor. North and South Korea the Korean war that led to their split into two countries. The United States, well our nation has it’s own skeletons. We were the first country to develop a nuclear bomb and use it. We stole land from the original people who were on the land, the Native Americans. We took Africans from their homeland and forced them into slavery. Even after Africans were freed we still looked down upon them even to this day they are looked down upon.
Our country has always a problem of looking down on those of our citizens who weren’t white. African Americans, Japanese, Chinese, it doesn’t matter it may not be every citizen who holds a grudge but buried in the very crevices of our nations past is a history of racism. A six letter word that holds more history and power in itself than the history of our country. The autobiography Desert Exile is a true example of one of the lowest points this country has been through related to racism.
It starts by talking about how the author, Yoshiko Uchida, had a good youth filled with the love of her parents and the greeting of many visitors her family had. It tells how even before WWII in parts of her home state, California, there were many against Japanese-Americans. It also tells her experience of what happened after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, how her father was taken by the FBI and questioned. How eventually all Japanese people whether American born or not were interned unless they had Voluntarily moved farther inland. Yoshika wrote of having to have the 4 member family, after her fathers release, originally live in