Kenji pgs.746-747

The general point made by Mike Shinoda in his work Kenji, is that Japanese people are still treated poorly even after war. More specifically Shinoda describes the experience of his own family during the Japanese Internment camps of World War II. He writes, “My family was locked up back in ’42, My family was there it was dark and damp, And they called it an internment camp…(747)” In this passage Shinoda is suggesting that Americans treated Japanese Americans bad even after the war. They said such things like “Japs not welcome here” and they made it miserable to any Japanese American trying to find peace after the war. In conclusion, it is SHinoda’s belief that Japanese Americans were still treated terribly even after the war.

In my view Shinoda is right because there is plenty of evidence that they were not treated right at all. For example there was a sign that said, “Japs keep moving, this is a White Man’s neighborhood.” Kenji was trying to live a peaceful life and provide for his family, but he was persecuted for being Japanese, and he didn’t even do anything wrong. Therefore, I conclude that all Japanese Americans were treated poorly at this time in history, and looking back we can learn a great deal from mistakes like this.