After reading and watching the video, I found that the person with the most rights and the person allowed to become a citizen of the United States easiest was definitely white. The first thing that noticed was that in “Ozawa and Thind” I saw racism from the very beginning of my reading. Ozawa is Japanese, I see that Ozawa has “fought” a lot for Asian America’s fairness. ” “In Ozawa v. In The United States, the Court wrote that the term “white persons” included “only persons of what is popularly known as the Caucasian race…”. More than that, when it comes to the video we’ve seen, I think I got it more through the narrative. They are Asian, more specifically Japanese, they have to live in Camp and they are very limited in speaking Japanese.
And I’ve seen pictures of the Japanese getting hurt from soldiers. And when being interviewed, I feel that all the people have certain answers, it’s like everyone has memorized the answer before. And everyone got the same answer when they were asked, the answer are “No …, Yes … if …”
“No, I’m not loyal to the Emperor. Yes, I will serve in the US Army, If we attack then we get released”
I know there will be a lot more information that I haven’t mentioned here about the disadvantages of Asian-Americans in wanting to be recognized as Citizen. But what I want to say more than that is the circumstances and at anytime the “white people” are always a group of people with more advantages and interests than any other group of color.
I agree with you how white people, specifically many groups of Europeans, have always been more privileged and given more advantages in the US than POC. They were able to easily gain citizenship while in the past POC had to prove themselves, have to take a citizenship test that is intentionally made to be difficult, and wait years to gain citizenship. I think it’s definitely unfair that such situations existed and still exist today. Everyone should be able to gain citizenship, no matter their race, ethnicity, or skin color.
I agree with the fact that whites are more privileged and are given more advantages