As shown in Fred Korematsu’s case, many argue that internment was justified by the safety it provided for non-Japanese American citizens, but the racial inequities are apparent from the treatment of German Americans and Italian Americans. According to Frank Wu, Author of Yellow: Race in America, the German American Bund and the Italian American Fascists were active organizations, holding rallies that attracted thousands and urged the U.S. to support Axis powers. Were either of them persecuted? Barely. Only 100 were interned and the rest retained their civil liberties while loyal citizens were persecuted for a threat with nonexistent evidence (Wu, 99). In this case, the problem was clearly not a matter of the Japanese being enemy aliens but