>>And may I remind you that the internment of Japanese Americans in the United States during World War II is one of our darkest moments as a country.
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>Really?
>Dark moment?
>Not high on my list of dark moments.
>I think that the constitutional approval of slavery was pretty low.
>I think we hit a low point during the Civil War where more than half a million people were killed by their fellow countrymen.
>As I said, the Japanese military, in anticipation of the war, had planted operatives among the civilian population in the US.
>Given that, and the mood after the attack at Pearl Harbor, I can see how officials decided to intern people till they found out who was who.
>Not fair, but war is never fair.

Yes it was a dark moment - when your country rounds up 120,000+ people including women and children (and 62% of those people where USA citizens) and bout 80,000 were 2nd generation citizens just because of the color of their skin and send them off to an internment camp (ya know the incarceration of U.S. citizens with no due process) it is what anyone in their right mind would call a "dark moment".