Mark Small

America’s history is many-hued and has been coated with broad strokes of racism. To ignore shortcomings in our history dooms us to repeat them. Brizzi’s is an old playbook. Others have targeted people of supposed inferior races to benefit at the polls. 6/19

They were “criminals” whose persecution was viewed, by a future President, as “a good thing.” They were depicted as actively corrupting elected officials here. Disgusting racist nicknames were ascribed to them. 7/19

I write not of people from China - although our racism unforgivably targeted them - but Italians. Brizzi’s surname is Italian. A few years ago it was said he would be Indiana campaign manager for Rudy Guiliani - another Italian-American. 8/19

Our history has taught us: racism has no place - none, zero, zip - in politics. Yet here is a person who has derived a paycheck from elected office - i.e., not a political “outsider” - from two terms as Marion County Prosecutor - who now blames the Chinese for COVID. 9/19

In WWII Japanese-Americans - naturalized or of one or two generations’ descent - were rounded up and placed in camps. American citizens of German descent did not face similar acts of discrimination in such numbers. 10/19

Numbers interned WWII: German-Americans, 11,507; Japanese-Americans, estimates run between 110K & 120K. Kashima, Tetsuden, “Judgment without trial: Japanese American imprisonment during World War II,” 2003, p. 124. Italian-Americans: hundreds. 11/19

Differences betw German- and Japanese-Americans. German-Americans were 1) white and 2) found to have committed treason in service to the Third Reich in many cases more than Japanese-Americans acted on behalf of The Emperor. 12/19

COVID-19, according to scientists here who have studied it, has natural, not human-made, origins. Chinese government officials bungled how it was handled. So, too, did an American of German descent who sits in the Oval Office. 13/19

I will debate any or all of my opponents for the GOP nomination in INCD5. Also: it appears that I am 2-0 in elections as a Republican - for preinct committee person and delegate to the State GOP convention. 14/19

Local press erroneously has stated my positions line up more with the Democratic Party - au contraire! I favor banning subsidies to pro sports, banning TIFS (look it up, TIFS = fiscal cancer), cutting the defense budget in half, legalizing all drugs, and single payer. 15/19

Meantime: voters in INCD5 should realize that people like Brizzi, Beckwith, Bales (sorry Andy, but you are getting bad again), Henderson, Abernathy - are intellectual cowards and blowhards. They embrace trump and espouse racist ideas. 16/19

I’m different from the other white people who seek the Republican nomination for INCD5. For one thing I favor protection of civil rights - neither Klansmen nor Nazis are “fine people” - and I am willing to debate. Rules: 17/19

1) Impartial moderator; 2) Don’t interrupt during someone else’s speaking time; 3) Neutral playing field - during pandemic, that means on-line anyway. If someone accepts this challenge, I say spiffy! 18/19