I think a LOT of people felt safe in America until pretty recently.

I still remember the stories I read about survivors of the Shoah who went to Israel and wept when they crossed the border because they were on Jewish land, guarded by a Jewish army--the first in two millennia.

I can only imagine how intensely overwhelming such emotion must've been.

I'm surprised that Japan would participate because--from what I have heard from blacks who have traveled there, including one of my own cousins who is considered "light-skinned" black--they really do not care for black people at all. That doesn't surprise me and I don't necessarily fault them for it, as I am aware that they have a very racially homogeneous society--living on an island will do that.