The people in Guantanamo were also imprisoned without sufficient reason.  I guess you could argue that one action was unconstitutional and the other was MORE unconstitutional, but ... come on. 

When you say "capturing people who weren't even in south america", I presume you mean "not even in the US but SA".  I did confirm that we somehow got Japanese individuals from South America in U.S. internment camps, but not that they were successfully deported to Japan.  Update:  I see no evidence thus far that this particularly disgusting part of an already unsavory corner of U.S. history occurred with FDR's knowledge or consent, much less at his behest.

What so if your ok for black people you aren't racist?

That's a pretty narrow view. 

The only time that commision was of any use was during WW2 because outside of that there really wasn't many government jobs, and those government jobs were and still are never picked actually based on qualifications.

At the same time the commision was useful, Japanese people were locked up, as well as people that "seemed" japanese and could not take part of it.

Considering a number of people fought it in courts, it would of have to have came to his attention.  The whole thing was done under an executive order, and so should of the resetlment.

It should also be noted that many of these people were not repaid for their possesions and land seized.

Savages becoming civilized are then civilized and dominant tht was his point.

I mean compare the racism... which is worse.

"They come from a worse enviroment."

or

"Their race is inherently defficient."

The top is TR the bottom is FDR.

Hell the top is still used today.  It's nationalism pure and simple.  Just how people in Europe thing Americans are Stupid, and everyone feels bad for the poor africans... etc.

TR was for All races and Women to be treated equally under US law as white men.  It's in just about every bit of writing there is about him.

All citizens of the US should be treated the same.

He's views were scarcly different then the views of today on the matter.  He held his country and his allies countries ahead of other countries... what president doesn't?

As for thinking White people as a whole were better then black people... lets be honest, what part of that wasn't true during his time?  There was very little skilled labor among the black community due to the effects of slavery... in general "savages" would need to adjust to the "modern world". 

That's why TR was for desegregation, he wanted equal oppurtunites for all so that all men could be equal and judged not by their skin color but by their merits.

I don't mean the internments in general; I mean, he signed Executive Order 9066, so obviously he knew of it. 

I don't see evidence that he was aware of the specific part of the internments that involved the U.S. accepting people from Peru (that were basically kidnapped by the Peruvian government), apparently at least partly for the purpose of having hostages.  You followed the link right?

nobody really talks about polk much... I didn't even know he did so much.

Also i've yet to have someone explain to me how anything could be "racism for the time."

When he signed an executive order himself to do something that was a giant leap backwords.

Had the slave year presidents used executive orders to make slavery harder to abolish, i'd say they were just as guilty and racist.

FDR to me falls in the same category as Andrew Jackson. A President who accomplished some good things, so they ignored the monumentally damaging, unconstituional and horrible things they do.

In my book... no amount of good can make up for a huge violation.

Your suggesting that someone else in the government just accepted a bunch of japanese people in the middle of WW2 without even notifying the president?

That's something that had to come across his desk.

That's like saying that the president wouldn't know we were selling weapons to "freedom fighter" groups.

Keep in mind we oursselves deported plenty of US citizens, and people who weren't aloud to be US citizens because of racist laws against asians to japan.

I mean that link itself shows FDR's racism towards asian americans.

Isn't it true that TR believed that blacks were at a lower level of evolution than whites? 

I don't have any problem with your assertion that TR was more progressive on race for his time than FDR, but FDR was 30 years later and I don't see that FDR was more racist than TR.  First blacks in the DNC, blacks in key advisory positions, etc.  His behavior with respect to Jews got some people calling the New Deal the "Jew Deal".  I'm not aware that he was pushing for XO9066 due to racial bias, and I don't recall that he was instrumental in the proposal at all, just that he ultimately approved.  He was wrong to do it, but you haven't convinced me that it was due to extraordinary prejudice against Japanese on his part. 

"While FDR just outright hated the Japanese, and there are plenty of statements to prove it."  Please provide them.  Keep in mind that we were in a war against them in the 1940s, and you have said he was MORE racist than the general population. 

"The principle on which this country was founded and by which it has always been governed is that Americanism is a matter of the mind and heart; Americanism is not, and never was, a matter of race or ancestry."  He didn't always live up to this high rhetoric.  We agree on that much.  But it was politically easier for TR to be racially progressive than FDR because of the Southern Democrats, one of whom said of TR, "The action of President Roosevelt in entertaining that nigger will necessitate our killing a thousand niggers in the South before they learn their place again."