Mark Small

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