Blanchette, a Franco-American, was obviously not of this background while putting the league in a tough predicament. Representatives from each of the ten teams took a vote on the issue and unanimously decided against the acceptance of Blanchette. Through the research that I have found as well as the class information in Ethnic Studies 330: Japanese in Hawaii. I will present both sides of the argument and situation and then analyze it the best that I can.

One side of the argument says there is nothing wrong with an organized group gathering together and hang out. Even if they all share the same ethnic background and refuse to let people not of this background in, it displays their way of preserving their cultural tradition. The term AJA stands for Americans of Japanese Ancestry so an AJA baseball league composed of nothing

I feel Whites are now days starting to get mad for once. They are starting to see how they treated all races throughout history. The roles are reversed in this situation and they are the victims of racial discrimination. Most of them probably consider themselves local yet don't bother to research the past of these island and her multiracial inhabitants. They probably wonder how a baseball league could not allow a UH standout such as Blancheete to play in their league, especially because he was white. I wonder if Blanchette was black, I bet they would have cared less.

From 1900-1940 Japanese accounted for roughly 40% of Hawaii's population. Over the years, this allowed the Japanese to acquire the organization and resources necessary to create a baseball league such as the AJA, in a time where cultural pride was very important especially to the Japanese. The AJA baseball leagues no longer held the direct segregation of races as in the plantation days, more as a sense of fun and pride. As cultural traditions are passed down from the Nissei to the Sansei and Yonsei generation, the AJA league in Hawaii is one of the last vestiges of a racial group that wants and will continue to hang out tighter to preserve cultural tradition. In this day and age we are a melting pot. Hawaii adopts traditions from other racial backgrounds, the AJA should instead be applauded for attempting to keep at least one cultural tradition.

Decisions like the one made against allowing Blanchette entry into the AJA league could also represent old resentment of Withes caused by the United States action during the WWII. Thousands of Japanese livings in America, most of the U.S. citizens were interned during the war in concentration camps all over the U.S. mainland. They were held against their will because the U.S. government was paranoid they might be spies for the Japanese emperor. However, Germans and the Italians living in the U.S. faced nothing near to the treatment of Japanese. On top of all that, the Japanese were then asked to volunteer for the war to prove their loyalty to the U.S. as if their citizenship was not enough. Charles Memminger of the Honolulu Star-Bulletin stated the Blanchette decision, "has a slig

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