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Writer Tim Wise hit the nail on the head. White people claiming to be victims in Michael’s or Starbucks are only revealing how privileged they are. (x)

(Photo Credit: Dorothea Lange) 

Visit Dorothea Lange’s Censored Photographs of FDR’s Japanese Concentration Camps

“Go ahead and do anything you think necessary… if it involves citizens, we will take care of them too. He [the President] says there will probably be some repercussions, but it has got to be dictated by military necessity, but as he puts it, ‘Be as reasonable as you can.’”

— Secretary of War, Henry L. Stimson, summarizing instructions from President Franklin D. Roosevelt given February 11, 1942

“We went to the stable, Tanforan Assembly Center. It was terrible. The Government moved the horses out and put us in. The stable stunk awfully. I felt miserable but I couldn’t do anything. It was like a prison, guards on duty all the time, and there was barbed wire all around us. We really worried about our future. I just gave up.”