re: #56 Ward Cleaver

The Japanese were detained because they looked different, and were a visible reminder of Pearl Harbor. You couldn’t easily pick out a German-American on the street, so they weren’t detained.

The actor Jack Soo, that played in Barney Miller, was born Jack Suzuki, but changed his name to the Chinese-sounding Soo, to avoid the scrutiny given to Japanese-Americans.

There is no doubt that racism played a large part in the internments and that is something that cannot be explained away. However, It was a different time and it was a scary time though.