Very good.

Columbus day was made a national holiday as a token by politicians to make up for 50 years of Italian-American persecution in this country. It is really NOT about Columbus. Italians were NOT considered white in this country

Did you know:

- Italians were routinely lynched in the south until as late as 1945?

- Italian Americans were put in interment camps in WWII?

- Congress passed a law to prohibit Italians from immigrating to America?

- Most of us lost our language because speaking Italian was deemed "The Language of the Enemy"

- Even today, think of all of the negative Italian stereotypes portrayed on tv - womanizers, mafia, ndrangheta, greasy hair, etc.

- Anti Columbus day has been around a long time. It was first opposed because of the Knights of Columbus and the Protestant opposition to the Catholic Church.


And it was not just the Daughters of the Mayflower crowd doing this. Many Irish and German immigrants (who came a generation earlier) were extremely prejudiced against Italians and their immigration.

I dare say they've been treated worse than any other group or ethnicity. Go on, ask a Native American...if you can find one.

The Jewish title to the world's most persecuted race is pretty much untouchable.

but I'm not going to get into a pissing contest with you.

in 1978 when affirmative action came into play. Rumor has it that the latinos will be considered white too before the "real american whites" become a minority