The Role Of Race in

The racism, unprovoked hate, and misguided patriotism aimed at Kabuo Miyamoto is remnants from the veteran’s of WWII who cannot let the war go because of the deep emotional ties to the memories. Since there have been people who are different, there has existed an intolerance and sometimes a baseless hatred towards those who chose to, and are sometimes forced to be, different from the “normal”. There are several reasons for the racism towards …

…Martin Luther King in the midst of the racial unrest of the 1960s. This unrest is congruent with the racial profiling and racism shown to Kabuo Miyamoto from his arrest to (and during) his trial. The hate that came with the bombing of Pearl Harbor in Hawaii in 1941 is still fresh in the minds of the people of the United States and they feel that it is up to them to themselves to serve justice.