Hidden Truth

The government deceives the public by publishing joyful commercials falsely educating the public on Japanese internment camps. Rabbit in the Moon sheds light on the realities of the Japanese internment camps that the commercials, press, and mass media tried to sugar coat. For example, in a commercial it said “the comforts of home” but in reality, the camps were far from it having to live on army style bedding filled with straw in a dusty environment that was either too cold or too hot. The commercial had Japanese people smiling as they let on the train saying that the Japanese were evacuees who had many opportunities. But in reality, they were forced to do hard labor for little pay, suffered emotional and physical stress. The press warped the reality by saying that when the Japanese rioted and revolted when a man reported not getting enough sugar and investigation the missing rations leading to the higher ups, the white men in charge of the camps, he got thrown in jail. People rioted for him to be let out causing trouble. Coincidentally, the riot happened around first anniversary of Pearl Harbor. The press said that they were celebrating the incident rather then standing up for a person who was doing the right thing. The press manipulated the situation to seem like the Japanese were guilty.  If all of America hated the Japanese, then why did the press go though such effort to make the public think that the Japanese were bad? Did the government want to pit the public against the Japanese because they knew that there are some righteous people who know that the seizing of all Japanese was wrong so they hid behind false lies to validate it? Or did they hide these lies so other countries would not fight against us because we were doing the same thing as the Nazis loosing our honor as well?  The joyful commercials, were they more for the public to be at ease for the Japanese people giving the message “ even though we are relocating them, don’t worry they are being nicely taken care of as refugees.” Or were the commercials meant to put the Japanese at ease to help them think that the government really cared? How could America let this happen and how come the higher-ups felt no shame or guilt? If everyone had known the truth, would there have been protests, riots, and a fight for the fellow American’s freedom, or a movement of peace? Perhaps this was just a reason a good reason to be openly prejudice and racist against Japanese Americans.