Drove from Lone Pine to Mammoth in a brilliantly clearing sky, just after the storm. Last night "60 Minutes" had a segment on the Manzanar concentration camp just a few miles out of town - I stopped on my way this morning. Here, 10,000 U.S. citizens of Japanese ancestry were held during World War II, not for anything real, only war hysteria and racism. 100,000 more were kept in ten other concentration camps around the country.
I was alone, and it was an eerie place. Especially the cemetary.
War is bad. And so is racism. In Texas I had to stop at a Border Patrol checkpoint on I-10. The officer mumbled "Uzz Citzn?", and I mumbled "Uh". There could have been ten Cubans in the back of my Isuzu, just like on "Seinfeld".
Racism as full employment. Soon we won't have time to produce goods and services, we'll all just get paid to watch each other.
I wish there was more outrage about the new Manzanars in America today.