CNN Newsroom: Interview With Rep. Judy Chu (D-CA)
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I was outraged. I was disgusted. I was angry. Most of all because it was so racist. This accusation was based on long-held stereotypes in this country that Chinese Americans and Asian Americans are forever foreigners in their own land no matter if they've been here four generations or if they are like me, I was born in Los Angeles. My father fought for the U.S. as a World War II veteran. I graduated from UCLA, taught psychology in the community college for 20 years. And I served in elected office for 37 years going from the city council to Congress.
And this country is the only country I know. And yet, still, Lance Gooden would consider me a foreigner in my own land. That's unacceptable.
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Well, they are trying to dig up false information and then make implications for things that did not occur. And so, they have these links, these very, very spurious links with -- like, for instance, this picture. What does this picture prove? Nothing. But for them, it's absolute proof. Actually, I could ask them, have they ever heard any public speech that I made that supports what they are charging me with?
You could examine my 37 years as an elected official and you will not find a single speech of that sort. And so, this is coming from a man who -- he's questioning my loyalty but he is a man who supported the January 6th insurrection, where Mike Pence our vice president could have been killed, in order to overturn this election. How loyal is that to America?
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Well, it was so gratifying to see immediate support, and immediately the Congressional Black Caucus, the head of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus and the American Jewish Council all issued statements saying that this was outrageous and condemning these accusations.
It's that kind of ally-ship that we need -- that Japanese Americans did not have during World War II. Now remember that 120,000 Japanese Americans were incarcerated during World War II, they targeted the leaders first. And then they isolated those leaders from the rest of the Japanese American community. And this was all based on accusations of espionage amongst Japanese Americans. Well, they lost everything that they had, but as it turned out now, there's never been a single case of espionage proven.
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