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...there is another story to those telegrams, one that has been mentioned only in passing. A signifigant portion of the pro-Ollie messages have contained racial slurs. Instead of reading simply "Go Ollie! Stop." a number have read, "Go Ollie! Show that kike, Jap, or Nigger." Underneath the public support of North are signs of the endemic racism that unfortunately is all too American...
...DECADES AGO, when Teddy White was still more than a Jap-and gay-baiting retrograde, his campaign books constituted a revolution in political reportage...
Fred Korematsu was a name that had lived in constitutional infamy. The Oakland-born steel welder refused to obey a 1942 military order banning all people of Japanese ancestry from San Leandro, Calif. As a result, he was called a "Jap spy" in a newspaper headline, sentenced to five years' probation and removed to a detention camp. The U.S. Supreme Court upheld his conviction and the evacuation order, thereby enshrining his name as a legal landmark. Later, when many began to question the internment of 100,000 Japanese-American citizens, Korematsu vs. United States was known to jurists...
...resembles previous films featuring anti-nuclear activist Caldicott, presenting an emotional plea to end the suicidal arms race. Comparable films, such as "Seven Minutes to Midnight," have been shown to Justice officials numerous times before. But perhaps this time they were offended by the inclusion of a clip from "Jap Zero," a film in which Reagan, as a combat flyer, asks, "How soon do I get a chance to knock one of them down...
...reported Japanese proposal that the U.S. demilitarize Pearl Harbor: "This country is. . .ready to pull the trigger if the Japs do anything . . . That's the first time that any damn Jap has told us to get out of Hawaii...