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Too much attention paid to the status of Japanese and Black Americans During the war. Yes of course, it was horrendous and shameful in retrospect; but somehow it seems out of place and jarring in this Documentary.

Well, I suspect that PBS probably insisted such agenda items had
to be included.

And some decent metion of it surely should be part of it.
BUT...
Giving the eternally-p-ssed-off Prof. John Hope Franklin a nice spot
to spout was just a bit too much.

AND, when Burns included mention of the 442nd "Go For Broke" in the
Inouye segment...why not go on and really talk about it?
Well, maybe Burns does later. But to just glance over it after
more of the internment-talk seems to be Burns just wanting to
tell the "Wasn't America awful then" story.

And as for the Japanese-American internment, it's an object of
obsession in academia. I remember when Tammy Bruce (talk-show
host in LA) went back to finish her undergrad degree at USC...
she made the mistake of saying in class something like "maybe it
was not a totally bad idea given how badly the war in the Pacific
was going".
Bruce said she felt lucky to escape intact given the response of
fellow students and the teacher.

And Tammy Bruce is the former head of the Los Angeles chapter
of The National Organization for Women. And a lesbian.

Amazing when liberal academia decides it's time to dine on a member
of one of their favorite "victim" classes.

And I'm not going to hold my breath waiting for Burns to mention
it was a Democrat (FDR) and the Census Bureau that helped facilitate
the round-up.
With data that the Census Bureau had promised would NEVER be used
for any purpose other than producing the final published census.

“Well, I suspect that PBS probably insisted such agenda items had
to be included.”
.....EXACTLY!!....glad somebody had the guts to sat it....primarily this show is obsessed with victimization and oppression....secondarily, it is obsessed with attacking military leaders....Schwinfurt was a disaster, Tarawa was a disaster, Anzio was a disaster, Cassino was a disaster...you’d think we were losing the war....the great and brilliant victory at Midway was given one sentence tonight....a huge turning point and it got one sentence!....and what about the great stories of selfless individual heroism.....where are they?....PBS hates the military....all they do is find fault.

I’m so glad WWII occurred during my parents generation....if it were to happen today outfits like PBS, the networks, NY Times, Wash Post, Hollywood ect would try to made us lose.