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...watch as the Japanese and Caucasian children of San Piedro Island are taught the lessons demanded by their respective cultures--lessons which are well-intended, but which ensure that the schism between their peoples will endure. In the days immediately following Pearl Harbor, the island becomes a hotbed of racism. Local authorities haul the Japanese residents off to internment camps--an act which serves to justify the anti-white attitudes held by Hatsue's mother (Ako) and many of the other Japanese. When Ishmael's father (Sam Shepard) prints an editorial denouncing the internment camps, virtually the entire white community...
...baiting, took notice of this clear-cut disciplinary case and decided that it was once again time to rattle his rusting saber. He descended upon Decatur, and along with his Rainbow/PUSH coalition organized protests and filed a lawsuit on behalf of the expelled students. Jackson intimated at school board racism and seized on the board's "zero-tolerance" policy regarding violence, claiming that it violated the students' constitutional rights...
Jackson remains obstinate. He still insists that there is a racial conspiracy and points to the fact that while blacks make up 47 percent of the student body in Decatur, they account for 87 percent of the expulsions. This is an unequivocally troubling statistic. However, racism it does not necessarily imply. At this point the appropriate logic seems trite, but perhaps it still bears repeating. If Asians account for a disproportionate percentage of the honor roll, should we assume that they are the beneficiaries of school board favoritism? There may be complicating factors that land black students in trouble...
...mayhem on a scale unimagined for centuries before. "As a result of Hitler," argued Elie Wiesel in TIME last year, "man is defined by what makes him inhuman." And while the Reich lasted 12 years rather than 1,000, its spores still survive and multiply. "The essence of Hitlerism--racism, ethnic hatred, extreme nationalism, state-organized murder--is still alive, still causing millions of deaths," wrote U.N. Ambassador Richard Holbrooke when he reluctantly nominated Hitler as the century's dominant character. "Freedom is the century's most powerful idea, but the struggle is far from over...
However much stronger the Western democracies were after the war, as they went on to discredit not only fascism but communism as well, that strength still came at a terrible cost. "How much happier a world it would be if one did not have to mount crusades against racism, segregation, a Holocaust, the extermination of 'inferior peoples,'" notes presidential historian Robert Dallek. "We don't need evil. We'd do fine without Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot. Think of the amount of money and energy used in World War II--if only they could have been used in constructive ways. Good...