Dr. King and I have made our final destination. On this day, President Franklin D. Roosevelt will sign an order “Establishing the War Relocation Authority in the Executive Office of the President and Defining its Functions and Duties.” Also known as Order 9066, this order started plans of ten internment camps where more that 110,000 Japanese Americans would be relocated. Life in Japanese internment camps was horrific. When the United States of America decided to take all Japanese-Americans and put them in internment camps, people were taken away from everyday existence. These camps known as America's Concentration Camps, with the U.S. not realizing that they were doing the exact same thing as the Nazis. The Japanese internment must be stopped to prevent large scale racial profiling of the Japanese during World War II. King and I luckily transported to a closet of FDR in the White House. We busted out and held him down before he could call secret service. I carried a transcript of the Executive Order 9066 with me to show him that I travelled from the future. Although he was in shock that I had the order as he just wrote it moments ago, he immediately believed us after remembering our visit to the Second Continental Congress in 1776. We let him go and he listened to our idea. Dr. King began speaking of equality of all. To stress his point on how the order was an unjustified law, he explained, “Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and that when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.” FDR understood King, but he was not fully convinced to stop the Executive Order 9066 going to the Secretary of War. Then I pulled out images of internment camps illustrating how horrible they were. Additionally, I showed FDR the Civil Liberties Act of 1988. I explained that in the future it is popularly known as the Japanese American Redress Bill. This act acknowledged that “a grave injustice was done” and ordered Congress to pay each victim of internment $20,000 in reparations. I further elaborated that if he was to not send the order, it would save lives and money avoiding a serious mistake. FDR considered the facts and agreed it to stop the racial profiling executive order saving the Japanese-Americans from grief and pain. Dr. King and I were overjoyed. We saved the future of America from racial discrimination and racial profiling.
Executive Order 9066
Civil Liberties Act of 1988
Interment Pictures :(
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