Posted on 06/14/2020 2:30:22 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen
You may be right; but tearing down a statue does nothing to educate those who defend it as a symbol of ethnic solidarity. People forget that many Italian immigrants suffered discrimination and racism throughout the last century and continuing today. You’ve already seen “goombah” above, and there were much worse taunts. It’s the history of immigration everywhere, and it takes generations to neutralize.
Italian-Americans in Philly have already re-named their historic “Italian Market”—it’s now the 9th Street Market, run by the 9th St Businessmen’s Association, and that name has probably been changed, too, since there are several post-feminist movement women-owned businesses there that are long-established, like Fante’s kitchenware store and Anastasio’s Fish Market. The community does not want their ethnic symbol associated with an incident of police brutality by a guy like Derek Chauvin, who was never, for all his culturally-sanctioned faults, a strong leader and an intrepid, accomplished, ocean-going explorer and innovator like Cristoforo Colombo.
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