Hitchens Turns Sappy

On the unique ability of America to reconcile.

Not the point of the article, but a clip on the Internment:

It was a crime committed largely by liberals like Earl Warren, as many people prefer to forget, and was even supported at the time by the Communist Party. (Actually, why do I say even? Communists by then were getting pretty used to supporting mass roundups and deportations.)

Hatred and fear and bigotry were probably never more general or more strongly felt than against Japanese people in America in the period between Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima/Nagasaki, and Hollywood and the comic book industry kept the feeling alive for some years afterward.

I often wonder if lived in America during the time of the internment or in the South during slavery, what I would of felt/done. Would I have opposed these popular institutions? I know everyone thinks or likes to think they would have, but obviously, they wouldn't and didn't at the time. It is perhaps one reason I keep a blog, to be honest with myself.