This chapter explores the way in which the charge of racism got entangled with the relocation story. It grew out of a few of General DeWitt’s statements taken out of context from his Final Report. DeWitt described Japanese American identity as a nationality, a complex one including race, religion, ancestry, language, and history. Nonetheless critics, first politicians, then historians, seized on the one factor of race to explain relocation. Less important were the habitual equation of the terms “race” and “nationality.” To that 1940s generation race meant nationality and the term “race,” in the biological sense, had not yet emerged from that entanglement as the preeminent marker of groups. Inevitably, this exaggerated the prevalence of racism to those politicians and historians. And the Race Paradigm also emphasized the use of the word “Jap” as a racist marker despite the fact that it implies no racial meaning and that the Nikkei themselves often employed it. In February 1942 Congressman Jon Tolan of Oakland held hearings to determine what to do with the Nikkei. Question number two asked whether Japanese aliens should be treated like German and Italian aliens. The police chief of Nikkei-hostile Sacramento and Mayor Angelo Rossi of San Francisco were lonely voices calling for singling out the Nikkei aliens. Most officials did not.