Saturday, April 30, 2011

Ralph Lawrence Carr

If you harm them, you must harm me. I was brought up in a small town where I knew the shame and dishonor of race hatred. I grew to despise it because it threatened the happiness of you and you and you.

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  1. Ralph Lawrence Carr (December 11, 1887 – September 22, 1950) was the 29th Governor of Colorado from 1939 to 1943.

    A Republican, Carr was committed to fiscal restraint in state government and opposed the New Deal policies of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. However, Carr supported Roosevelt's foreign policy. When the War Relocation Authority decided to resettle Japanese-Americans from the West Coast in a camp at Amache near Granada, Colorado, Carr went against popular anti-Japanese sentiment by urging Coloradans to welcome the evacuees. In a speech defending the rights of the displaced Japanese-Americans.

    Carr's urgings for racial tolerance and for protection of the basic rights of the Japanese-Americans are generally thought to have cost him his political career, including his ambition for election to the United States Senate. He narrowly lost the 1942 Senate election to incumbent Democratic Senator Edwin C. Johnson.

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  2. his saying made him as if a hero, stood out different from the rest.
    what about his action? How can he guarantee the happiness to so many of you and you and you?
    it was not the best solution, but the action meant protection not harm
    if any harm was done, what was his action? how did he save the situation?

    took away freedom is inhuman.
    But human's freedom was already took away from birth.
    human asks for restricts, asks for bonding,
    human claims they want freedom, what they actually seeking/wanting is happiness.
    human afraid of freedom, real freedom means alone, loneliness
    giving the choice of freedom and happiness, human choice vow,promise for happiness instead of freedom.
    Then again, happiness come and go, happiness change, happiness disappear before we realize they are here, lost happiness? then freedom is e necessary, freedom gives human another change to discover and chase another happiness...

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