Political cartoon released after Pearl Harbor...?

Question

http://landmarkcases.org/korematsu/cartoon2.html


What does this cartoon tell us about how the general public viewed Japanese Americans?

Answer 1

it took forty years before a President apologized for this treatment......Americans are slow to recognize their own flaws

Answer 2

Ummm...that cartoon is not a view of the American public. It's a view of a person. The U.S. was carting Japanese-Americans to prisoner of war camps under the guise of relocating them for thier own safety. And I doubt it was realeased after Pearl Harbor. Unless it was YEARS after....

Answer 3

Leave it to San Francisco. Yes putting those poor people in those camps were indeed dark pages in US history. My mother told me the government did it to PROTECT them from gang violence, but I don't think so.

But this is what happens when we panic and group all of a particular minority into one big monster to hate just to justify our vengeance.

Thank God most of us did not go to these extremes after the horrendous crimes committed against us on 9/11 by a group of nut cases.. At least we have come that far as a nation.

Answer 4

Its shows how paranoid the US became after Pearl Harbor. In war killing your enemy is easier by vilifying them. Everyone drew cartoons to make their enemies to appear as evil.

Answer 5

Very little, it shows how this one political cartoonist viewed the relocation of Japanese Americans. It wasn't called internment for many years!

Answer 6

You're the one in class studying this... you tell us.

THINK

I know, I know... thinking is a real stretch for the gaming console generation that was taught how to pass tests instead of use their brain cells.

Answer 7

Nothing. The cartoon was the idea and creation of the cartoonist, nothing else.