[Zhang Fei]

I actually don't fault Roosevelt for sequestering the Nisei, a percentage of whom really were security risks—or rather, their Japanese-born parents and grandparents were (according to memoirs I've read by Nisei).

I'd say that was racialism. It's one thing to intern individuals born abroad or even the first generation born stateside. They were interning individuals with 1/16 Japanese blood, which is to say they were interning the great-great-grandchildren of the original Japanese settler stateside.

[SamuraiScot]

They were interning individuals with 1/16 Japanese blood, which is to say they were interning the great-great-grandchildren of the original Japanese settler stateside.

In the memoir I remember best, by a woman interned as a little girl in Idaho, there weren't any great-greats. She described a lot of grandparents and parents who were born in Japan, and kids who were born stateside, mostly in California. A lot of the old men and many of the young men talked about fighting for the Empire of Japan, because America was vulnerable and undisciplined.