Days of Waiting (Late Post)

In the movie Days of Waiting, two things struck me; first the intercultural marriage between Estelle Ishigo and her Japanese husband Arthur, second Estelle facing racism not by the Japanese community she was interned with, but accounts with the “white” community.

I believe in equality, though that does not mean to be color blind, I believe that as much rights as a male and female have to courtship it should extend to all races. It should not matter whether the person(s) are black, white, Asian or Hispanic. Marriage is the symbol of love and if two people are able to legally get married as man and wife, the difference of color should not be a prohibition. I am proud to live in a world today that miscegenation laws are considered unconstitutional and people of all different races are able to wed as interracial couples.

What I also found interesting in the film, was that Estelle faced no racism as she was aware of being one of the only white woman in a Japanese internment camp. Although, the Japanese could have a grudge on her, she was welcomed and treated like nothing less than whom she was. This displays a perfect example of CRT tenet of race being a social construct and not biological. After finding out that Estelle was marrying a Japanese man, her family shunned her and retreated to not talking to her.  However, when stepping into a camp where she became the minority race, they welcomed her as if she wasn’t considered an outsider. Days of Waiting reflected on only one viewpoint (Estelle) however, showed a lot of history of divided races.