Thursday TOONs (Dec. 7th)

[YoshidaYui]

16. My ANCESTORS came from Miyazaki JAPAN....

and moved to HAWAII, SO MY family was on the island by the time the Japanese Empire made its attack. After which many Japanese AMERICANS were placed in interment camps. My family never went, because we were HALF HAWAIIAN natives. The US not only leased Hawaii from the Hawaiians they weren't about putting half Japanese Hawaiians in interment camp. so there for my family was lucky not to be interned.

My immediate family left Hawaii and I was born in San Francisco, and i have to tell all of you, I STILL CRINGE when SEE THE WORD " JAP" . WORLD WAR II WAS not my war. I was born way after that, but the word still stings when I see it. I know at the time it seemed like the right thing to do, was hate the DAMN JAPS for attacking pearl harbor, but times have changed. THE WAR is long over and people have moved on.

but prejudice is still out there and being called a "Jap" STILL stings... knowing where it came from, doesn't make it feel any better