Title: “American Privilege” Is Open to All | by Chad E Cooper | Thrive Global | Medium
Headings: “American Privilege” Is Open to All
“American Privilege” Is Open to All
By Chad E Cooper

Content: Several served in the segregated 442nd Regimental Combat Team and its predecessor, the 100th Infantry Battalion. Making up over one-third of the population of Hawaii, Japanese Americans were among the first to enlist. They were also the first res-ponders to aid the injured after the attack on Pearl Harbor. These Americans were proud and became some of the most decorated solders in history. They could have used the excuse that their people suddenly had been imprisoned in camps, and their families had lost everything, money, homes and businesses due to the crazy response of the US government after Pearl Harbor. But they didn’t let any system tell them not to do their best because they were of Japanese ethnicity. They succeeded under huge oppression, but succeed they did. Many different immigrants have come to America fleeing countries that wanted to hold them down, control them and what they could own, some wanted to exterminate them altogether. They didn’t show up here saying… Oh we are so tired and weak we can’t do anything. No, they signed up for schools offered for free in America for both males and females.