Some Italians more worthy of an American holiday than Columbus

[AStern]

Add yours.

[peppertree]

1. He tried to warn us....

[DBoon]

2. mine

Enrico Fermi




and...


Candido Jacuzzi

[peppertree]

3. And, by way of Argentina, a great but humble architect...

[Scrivener7]

4. A holiday for a worthy Italian is a great solution to the rapey, enslavey, genocide-y Columbus problem.

I like having an Indigenous People's day too. But two holidays are always better than one.

[Polybius]

5. Why Yogi Berra and no Joe DiMaggio?

Joe D was a lot better and more popular.

[AStern]

13. True. I just always liked Yogi Berra

[mikeysnot]

6. Leanardo DaVinci

[xmas74]

7. I always mention Ettore Boiardi

Look up the real Chef Boy ar Dee. He organized and cooked the homecoming dinner for 2000 soldiers held by Woodrow Wilson after WWI. His factory helped feed troops during WWII.

[Prairie Gates]

8. Is this supposed to be funny?

[AStern]

12. Yes.

Sorry that it fell flat.

[Emile]

9. My favorite Italian

[peppertree]

10. He was great!

I remember first seeing him not on SNL - but on Not Necessarily the News (on HBO - anyone remember?).

The segment was on corruption in religion - and included three holy rollers and (of course!) Father Sarducci.

The three holy rollers (in video clips taken from actual interviews), all offered up bullshit explanations as to how, exactly, they had come to be so rich - all while using Christ.

Robert Schuler, for example, claimed that it was all thanks to "positive thinking."

Then came Father Sarducci, who simply said that "well - we in-a the Catholic Church, we make-a money the old-fashioned way...we play bingo."

He was a hoot.

[Jose Garcia]

11. Guglielmo Marconi

[AStern]

15. Marconi was a Jew Hating FASCIST

Marconi’s Shame — Why Italy Has Forgotten The Iconic Founder Of Wireless Communications

Gugliemo Marconi, the legendary Italian inventor of wireless communication, the man who connected the world, is not celebrated as he should be — because of his politics. As Italy marks the 150th anniversary of his birth, it may be time for the nation to finally come to terms with Marconi the inventor and the entrepreneur — and let go of the fact that he was a member of the Fascist Party.

https://worldcrunch.com/tech-science/guglielmo-marconi-wireless-inventor/

Marconi blocked Jews from Il Duce's academy
Inventor of the radio helped in Italy's anti-semitic campaign

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/mar/19/physicalsciences.humanities

Guglielmo Marconi: Inventor and Fascist

The downside of Marconi – he was a fascist. He was a strong supporter of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini who appointed him president of the Royal Academy of Italy. And if that wasn’t enough, Marconi was an antisemite. He rejected all Jewish applicants to the academy.

https://offtherecordtours.com/guglielmo-marconi-inventor-and-fascist/

[obamanut2012]

14. My grandfather -- a union man, a union shop steward, a hero at the Battle of the Bulge when he could barely shave

He is a better one.

[mucholderthandirt]

16. I celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day, and have for decades.

Columbus was a shit, and wasn't even the first to discover "America". In fact, even the Vikings weren't the first, those people who came over the Bering Strait about 20K years ago were the first. I'm proud to have their ancestry in my veins.

I also acknowledge that my white ancestors stole this land from the people who were here first. It's a sad legacy, but so long ago that there's nothing I can do about it now, except to honor those who were here first.

[DenaliDemocrat]

17. The fact that Giovanni Cabotto

Is listed in the history books as John Cabot pretty much explains everything you need to know about anti-Italian discrimination in this country.