This racism prevailed when president roosevelt in February 1942 signed an executive order calling for the evacuation of over 110,000 Japanese and japanese-americans from california oregon and washington on the grounds that they "represented a threat to national security." 70% of them were american citizens.
An article in "Time" magazine stated "the ordinary unreasoning jap is ignorant. Perhaps he is human. Nothing indicates it."
In 1996, in a state referendum, Californians voted 55% to embed a colorblind amendment in their state constitution:
«The State shall not discriminate against, or grant preferential treatment to, any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education, or public contracting.»
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The Democratic legislature, however, wants to be rid of this amendment as it outlaws the kind of racial and ethnic discrimination in which Sacramento wishes to engage.
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If this passes...<...> — there will be racial and ethnic discrimination, as in the days of segregation. Only the color of the beneficiaries and the color of the victims will be reversed. And that is the meaning of the BLM revolution, which might be encapsulated: «It’s our turn now!»
Only a damn fool can expect the people of one tradition to feel at ease when their country is flooded with hordes of foreigners who—whether equal, superior, or inferior biologically—are so antipodal in physical, emotional, and intellectual makeup that harmonious coalescence is virtually impossible
— Why do you let those boys push you around like that for?
— They're bigger than me.
— Stand tall. Have some respect for yourself. If you let people walk over you now, they'll walk over you the rest of your life. Look at me. You think I'll spend my life in this slop house?
— Watch it, Goldie.
— No, sir! I'll do something. I'll go to night school. One day, I'm going to be somebody.
— That's right. He's going to be mayor.
— Yeah, I'm... Mayor! Now that's a good idea! I could run for mayor.
— A colored mayor. That'll be the day.
— Wait and see. I will be mayor. I'll be the most powerful man in Hill Valley and I'm going to clean up this town.
— Good. You can start by sweeping the floor.
— Consider yourself lucky. The penalty for impersonating an officer is prison.
— Yeah, maybe for you, white boy. Me, they hang.
So if I'm not *black* enough and if I'm not *white* enough, and not *man* enough, then tell me, Tony, what am I?
They want me to say that two white boys also died helping Negroes help themselves. They want me to say we mourn with the mothers of these two white boys. But the State of Mississippi won't allow these boys to be buried in the same cemetery as this Negro boy. I say, I have no more love to give. I have only anger in my heart today and I want you to be angry with me! I am sick, and I am tired and I want you to be sick and tired! I am sick and tired of going to funerals of black men who've been murdered by white men. I am sick and tired of the people of this country who continue to allow these things to happen. What is an "unalienable right" if you are a Negro? What does "equal treatment under the law" mean? What does it mean liberty and justice for all"? Now I say to these people look at this young man and you'll see the face of a black man but if you look at the blood, it's red! It is like yours! It is just like yours!
It's ugly. This whole thing is so ugly. Do you know what it's like to live with all this? People look at us and only see bigots and racists. Hatred isn't something you're born with. It gets taught. At school, they said segregation was in the Bible. Genesis 9, verse 27. At seven years of age you get told it enough, you believe it. You believe the hatred. You live it, you breathe it. You marry it.
— You like baseball, Anderson?
— Yeah, I do. You know it's the only time a black man can wave a stick at a white man and not start a riot.
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