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To: Albion Wilde

I still don’t understand why you can’t grasp the point.

I plainly stated my protest is not with the way Italians are depicted- in fact i went out of my way to make sure you understood this and correctd my initial response. My protest is the double standard, which is what we are seeing daily with Christians, conservatives, the Jan 6 trespassers, white people, Italian Americans, etc, etc.


29 posted on 09/03/2021 10:58:25 AM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: God luvs America
I get your point. I think it is aiming at the wrong target. The Sopranos was not an exploitation; it was a memoir, a celebration and a cautionary tale. I suspect the movie might be at least tolerable. You'd be better off picketing Adam Sandler when he does Opera Man.

There are thousands upon thousand of famed and acknowledged Italian-Americans who have shared positive values in our culture, such as
businessman Lee Iacocca,
chocolatier Dominic Ghirardelli,
banker Amadeo Giannini,
architect Robert Venturi,
artist Frank Stella,
chefs Ettore Buoiardi (Boyardee), Rachel Ray, Tom Colicchio;
industrial designers Jacuzzi and Zamboni;
Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia and Samuel Alito;
astronaut Walter Schirra;
signer of the Declaration of Independence William Paca;
physicist Enrico Fermi;
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo;
dozens of mayors and governors;
four Catholic Cardinals;
university presidents Bartlett Giamatti and John DeGioa;
thousands of artists, musicians and writers;
too many entertainers and sports figures to mention...

So why obsess about the criminal element? There are criminals and movies about them in every walk of American life, from every ethnicity.

32 posted on 09/03/2021 11:52:02 AM PDT by Albion Wilde ("Let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late." —Bob Dylan)
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