Japanese Internment Camps

What the American government did to Japanese Americans was cruel and unnecessary. They beckoned innocent civilians that were indeed of Japanese descend, but still humans whatsoever. While in those concentration camps, people were treated even worse than animals, humiliated and denigrated to no point. It was an inhuman treatment that Americans gave millions of other people out of sheer suspicion, speculation, and mainly discrimination.

America claims that they had nothing to do with the Holocaust and the German slaughter of Jews, and they're perfectly right. They did nothing. Neither helping Hitler and the Nazis nor rescuing the Jews until most of them had suffered tragic loss and pain. After that, America claimed that it would never do something as savage as that. Well, after the Japanese Internment Camps, and countless of other discriminating acts, America proved to be no different from Germany's savage actions.

Innocent Japanese-Americans were abused, exploited, tortured and killed in those ominous, isolated camps due to their terrible conditions and their wards' indifference. And they all suffered so much simply because of their race.

Once America is faced with these acts of cruel discrimination, it simply shrugs them off and urges everyone to 'look forward to a brighter, equal future,' because the past is the past. Yes, it's the past indeed, but not something from the past that should be easily forgotten or put away. There are still people who discriminate and/or mistreat Asian people because of what happened in the past, and this isn't an example of progressive change.

Life Without Parole

Does Life Without Parole for juveniles violate the 8th amendment?

I think it really depends on the crime the child commits. There are cases in which the crimes the kids commit are not justified, of course, but it's just...Wrong to punish them so severely. Like minor crimes.

I suppose that when a child kills a person, then it would be right to punish them like that, but then again, there's the fact of what person he or she killed, under what conditions. For example, that girl that killed her pimp, she killed him because she felt like there was no other way out of her misery. She wanted to make him pay for everything he'd made her suffer, and thought that would be the most effective way. During her time in jail, though, she critically grew up as a person, learned that what she did was wrong, repented for it, and was willing to change her life and wanted to overcome the problems she went through.

She shouldn't spend the rest of her life in jail because she really has changed and become better. There are many of these cases that don't require minors spending all their lives in jail, but then again, it's quite debatable. I'd say I'm in a neutral place, defending both sides of the problem. Some children don't deserve to be put in jail for so long because their situation was complicated, and they've undergone a transformation that's hard to explain, but that has let them grow in a way that Life Without Parole doesn't fit anymore.

But then again, those are some cases, and in some others, kids cause them on purpose for no rational reason. Like that 15-year-old girl that got drunk and got in a cab with her friend, participating in the murder of the driver. All because her boyfriend dumped her. Or that 13-year-old boy that sexually assaulted an older woman.

People say that the punishment is severe because kids that age 'don't understand the severity of their actions.' They may be right, but to an extent. It doesn't take a lot of brain to understand that things like that are wrong, and they're as bad in children as they are in adults. If those are crimes, then they shouldn't need to understand them to a full extent, to experience them.

All they need to do is see that they're wrong and you might be punished because they're wrong for all ages, period. If they commited those crimes, then that means those kids simply ignored the basic 'position' of their deeds, (they ignored already knowing, at least a little, that what they were about to do was wrong) and still did them, regardless of the reason. If they were daring, or mature, or foolish (or whatever the term is) enough to commit the crimes, then they're just as daring, mature, foolish or whatever to face the consequences.

Sarah Ryan

The woman whom I honor is Sarah Ryan, better known as 'KG.' I'd say she's my best friend so far. We met about three years ago, in a chat room, of course, because she lives somewhere in Ohio. I was pretty bored and had signed in that chat room for a while, expecting to find anyone I could talk to for a while.

I made a friend; Tao_Whitney, and she introduced me to KG. She was so awesome, after getting to know each other for a few more days, we started an RP (RolePlay) together. I'd often sign into the chat room and talk to her about stuff, and she'd tell me about hers.

I had a good time with her. But, I couldn't meet her in the chat room anymore, so we exchanged e-mail addresses to talk in there instead. We're still RPing and talking to each other even after all this time, and though I'd never seen her before, I still feel like she's one of my best friends 'cause she understands how I feel and knows what I like to do, she likes some of those stuff too. I think she sees me as a real friend too, and not just someone else she met in the computer.

I look forward to meeting her one day, when it's safe. But, I don't have any complains. Being with KG all this time made me realize that despite what everyone says, you don't need to know what a person looks like to make them your best friends.

If you know how, you can see through their posts, or their e-mails, or whatever. If you're really into this friendship of yours. This might be the most pathetic blog anyone's read yet, but that's how I feel about KG, my best friend first through IFC, then GaiaOnline, and now Gmail/Hotmail.

U.S. Still A White Supremacist Country?

I don’t think the U.S is quite a white supremacist country anymore. People are no longer judged by the color of their skin, so white people are no longer thought to be ‘better’ than other people, especially blacks, since they have earned a lot of rights over the years. The country is trying its best to be equivalent with all people and see them for their value as a person and not as that of their race.

However, the U.S. still holds the 'white supremacist' belief in some areas. Take the immigrants, for instance. Many people mistreat them and discriminate them, claiming that their white, American race is far greater than theirs, who have to come to the great, American country to at least dream to be in a better economic position.

In fact, now that the white supremacy belief is supposed to have died down, now that there should be no more discrimination, that black and Indian people have rights like everybody else, immigrants are still being treated like people other than whites were treated in the old pages of American history. Illegal immigrants are people who come to work humbly and simply want to be seen as that, people, like everyone else, just as great as the next person, but they still encounter the barriers of American discrimination. The opportunities for work are still closed for them, because of the American so-called fear of they taking their beloved jobs.

'We have worked too hard to have the country we have now. We're far better than those illegals.' Those are the expressions of people who surround us, people who have no consideration for others that do not belong to the 'white race.'

That are not great, like white people have been for centuries. According to those people, the U.S. is still a country where white supremacy rules, like it always has. And they want it to remain that way for centuries.