American Incidents of Discrimination toward Minorities

Bick,

I would recommend taking a look at the infamous case Korematsu v. United States. (see link)

There, the Court ruled that "that the evacuation order violated by Korematsu was valid, and it was not necessary to address the constitutional racial discrimination issues in this case" reasoning that "Because the order applied only to people who were Japanese or of Japanese descent, it was subject to the “most rigid scrutiny.” The majority found that although the exclusion of citizens from their homes is generally an impermissible use of government authority, there is an exception where there is “grave [ ] imminent danger to the public safety” as long as there is a definition and close relationship between the government’s actions and the prevention against espionage and sabotage. The majority ruled that there was sufficient danger and a sufficient relationship between the order and the prevention of the danger to justify requiring Korematsu to evacuate. The majority said the order was valid."

Coincidentally, I might be stopping by Manzanar this weekend.

Here's the key sentence: "the Black Wall Street massacre in Tulsa a century ago."

Most educated Americans are aware of Tuskegee, Japanese internment, etc., etc. All those occurred or ended over 50-100 years ago. 

Since the inception of the Great Society and War on Poverty programs in the 1960s there have been multiple trillions spent on balancing the playing field. There is currently no law, no policy, nor any institution in American that is preventing anyone from succeeding and advancing up the economic ladder--and there hasn't been for 55+ years.

The idea being perpetrated by Joe Biden and the Democratic Party that voter integrity laws such as the one recently passed in Georgia are "Jim Crow on steroids" is the perhaps the grossest and most disingenuous form of race-baiting in modern political history. These are bald-faced lies designed to divide people and empower the Left--and nothing else.

The difference was that the Japanese had demonstrated the ability to cross half an ocean to bomb and all but destroy an American air and naval base on American soil.  The natural (albeit erroneous) reaction was that they might have the ability to reach our West Coast as well, and the risk of assistance from Japanese-Americans living there had to be avoided.  There was never any reason to fear that Germany could do the same.

I hear the “democrat party of yesteryear is not the same as it is today” argument quite often.

I agree there is nothing I'm aware of that is preventing a minority from pursuing the American dream, defined as the belief that anyone, regardless of where they were born or what class they were born into, can attain their own version of success in a society in which upward mobility is possible for everyone.

I think it's a fair position that some of these particularly egregious events have been absent from what's being taught in HS history classes.

Wouldn't the real issue be that unchecked power leads to some potentially disastrous policies?