Blog Post #5 Espiritu Article

Black slaves in U.S. history were beaten, degraded, and were considered animals by the white folks. They had no choice of say in their life whether women, men, children or elderly and were considered mindless working machines with no rights for years. Japanese Americans who were born here were were tax paying U.S. citizens, that is until the bombing of Pearl Harbor. After the war act they were taken into concentration camps and had all their rights expunged by one single order by the President. Japanese Americans were no longer considered people but a threat to the United States because of their ties to Japan. Both Blacks and Asians felt the governments attacks tactics on them solely based on their race. While Black slaves had no freedom, Japanese Americans had some freedom in the internment camps but both freedoms were imposed on them so as long as they behaved like dogs and followed orders they were considered "good" people.To me that is a sort of updated modern day slavery, you are given a "house" some commodities and as long as you do what you are told nothing bad will happen.Although there were cases of guards killing people for resisting orders so not only where their freedom taken away from them they were imposed with this new standardized freedom until further notice. The freedom of both Blacks and Asians was easily given and easily taken away, men were not men anymore there was no such thing as patriarchy because they were equal to the children and were equal to the mothers.