"We're charged with wanting to get rid of the Japs for selfish reasons. We do. It's a question of whether the white man lives on the Pacific Coast or the brown men… If all the Japs were removed tomorrow, we had never miss them in two weeks, because the white farmers can take over and produce everything the Jap grows. And we do not want them back when the war ends, either."
How does this kind of racism in the 1940s compare to racism encountered in the U.S. today? Is there the same amount of racism? Have we become a less racist society? Are there any ethnic/minority groups that face similar discrimination in the present?
(See Korematsu v. United States dissent by Justice Frank Murphy, footnote 12, reproduced at findlaw.com, accessed 11 Sept. 2006)
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