To the Lady
Mitsuye Yamada
page 744
The main point made by Mitsuye Yamada in her work To the Lady is that in America, things of serious matter are often over looked when the victims are minorities. More specifically, she argues that too many people, including the Japanese-Americans, did nothing to stop the internment of all those people during World War II. She writes, "But we didn't draw the line anywhere law and order Executive Order 9066 social order moral order internal order. You let'm I let'm All are punished." (page 744) Here, she is saying that it wasn't one person or groups responsibility to speak up, it was everyones and everyone has suffered for it. In conclusion, it is Yamada's belief that too many people went on with their lives, over looking the internment of so many Japanese-Americans.
In my opinion, Yamada is right. It wasn't just the responsibility of the Japanese-Americans to resist the internment camps, every American should have. For example, she wrote "written six million enraged letters to Congress" (page 744) This is referring to every American at the time. Also, she referenced Kitty Genovese who was stabbed to death in her own home while 38 people walked by and heard the commotion but did nothing. In conclusion, Yamada is right. If no one says anything, everyone suffers.
