Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-28869806-20150430170122/@comment-34995986-20180314115844

LegionZero wrote: No, he untrusted them with that duty, but as stated before, they were never prohibited from joining in other governing positions/bodies of the village. He didn't segregate them. Danzo did that later. Many of the Uchiha were angry over nothing.

Kagami, Itachi, and Shisui were part of other Konoha factions. They chose to branch out. Any other Uchiha could have done the same but decided to be bitter about some kind of perceived descrimination.

This is terribly late but… I'm interested in this thread!

Itachi was the first official Uchiha ANBU, and it was only because Danzō had some kind of weird thirst-fest going on over him. Danzō wanted to groom him, and that's the only reason why he was able to skip the Jōnin rank completely and attain that position. Shisui was an informal one who only reported directly to Hiruzen, he wasn't a real ANBU. The Uchiha Clan were prohibited from joining any other governing positions/bodies of the village. An Uchiha could never become ANBU, an Uchiha couldn't become Hokage, they couldn't be elders, they weren't allowed to become anything influential or powerful in the village because of laws placed during Tobirama's reign.

The Uchiha Clan were held back and that's why they were upset. It, in fact, was an injustice, because they hadn't even done anything wrong. They were fighting for their justice.


 * Source: Itachi Shinden