Korematsu

I was surprised and disturbed to learn this morning that the US Supreme Court decision in Korematsu vs. the United States has never been overturned.  That is 1944 case in which the Justices ruled that it was OK to round up and incarcerate American citizens simply because they were of Japanese descent.

I had classmates – third generation Americans – who spent time in camps as infants simply because their grandfather was born in Tokyo.  That is just wrong, and it’s not enough to say it could never happen again.