Citizen 13660
Miné Okubo
pages 748-759
The main argument that Miné Okubo suggests in her work Citizen is that the internment camps of World War II were terrible places to live and that the Japanese-Americans sent to live their didn't deserve those conditions or that treatment. She writes, "Moreover, it was very cold and we were shivering. One blanket was not enough to keep us warm." (page 752) Here, she is showing how the people in the camps weren't given enough things to keep them comfortable, only the ones who were lucky enough to have brought their own things with them to compensate were able to sleep the night in the cold. In conclusion, it is Okubo's point that the people in the Japanese Internment camps were not treated fairly and shouldn't have had to endure those conditions.
I think that Okubo was right. Many of the camps were in locations that were very unpleasant. For example, Topaz was in central Utah which isn't too bad except it's a desert and the camp buildings were low-ceilinged with no air conditioning causing them to be hot at all hours of the day. I agree that the conditions the people had to live in in the camps were unfair and they shouldn't have had to.
