To the Lady pg. 744

The general argument made by Mitsuye Yamada in her work To the Lady, is for us to think about who is responsible for the injustice done to Japanese Americans by Executive Order 9066. More specifically, Yamada suggests that it was not just the governments fault for what happened to the Japanese Americans. She writes, “But we didn’t draw the line anywhere law and order Executive Order 9066 social order moral order internal order You let’m I let’m All are punished (p. 744).” This passage is suggesting that the people who knew that it was wrong and just let it pass by should have done something to stop it. In conclusion, it is Yamada’s belief that the people of our country who knew that this was wrong should have done something about it.

In my view Yamada is right because as I have mentioned time and time again, as a citizen of the United States, we need to take a stand if something is unjust. We need to not fear the punishments of tomorrow and do what is right today. For example today if something like that were to happen, it would probably not even go through, because people would realize that it would not be right to do something like that. Although many people just blame the government for this terrible thing, I think that the people of America should also feel guilty for not trying to do something about it. Therefore, I conclude that it was not only governments fault for putting the Japanese Americans into internment camps, it was also the American citizen’s fault for not doing something about it.