there’s an urgent need for us as descendants of this cruelty to move beyond acceptance of prisons, detentions, and policing in general so long as it happens to the “right” group
the obsession of japanese american descendants with the categories of “citizen” and “non-citizens” during internment underscores the implication of an acceptable group to be detained
even on a pilgrimage to the former concentration camp site there is still an insistence that what happened was wrong because they were US citizens, not the inherent immorality of detention