Roosevelt Unfair And Unjust Analysis

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President Roosevelt was the leader of the armed forces in justified in ordering the Executive Order 9066. The reasons that Roosevelt was considered unfair and unjust is that the only thing he did was imprison hundreds of alleged spies. Now just because that the 99% of the spies were Japanese this means that this order was considered racist. The reason that imprisoning spies based on race is racist, but imprisoning spies based on home country is not racist because there is a difference between skin color and nationality. Roosevelt was in desperate need of gaining an advantage over the Japanese threat and required that action would be taken by the public. Roosevelt was a man of many words and some of these words were not as useful as

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