In Response to Executive Order pg. 743

The general argument made by Dwight Okita in his work In Response to Executive Order 9066: All Americans of Japanese Descent Must Report to Relocation Centers, is that not all Japanese Americans were giving secrets away and they weren’t trying to sabotage Americans. More specifically, Okita suggests that the some of the Japanese Americans had not done anything wrong. In the poem he writes, “I saw Denise today in Geography class. She was sitting on the other side of the room. You’re trying to start a war, she said giving secrets away to the Enemy, Why can’t you keep your big mouth shut? (p. 743)” In this passage, Okita is suggesting that some Japanese Americans did nothing wrong and they were still punished for it. In conclusion, it is Okita’s belief that the Executive order forced on all Japanese Americans, did not make sense.

In my view I think that Okita is right because not all of the Japanese Americans were spies and not all of them were trying to start a war. For example this little Japanese American child did not understand why her friend was accusing her of giving secrets away to the enemy, because she was not that type of person at all. Although some people say that it was to protect Americans, I maintain that this Executive order was wrong. Therefore I conclude that people should try not to make generalizations when a disaster comes to America.