I Have to Get This Off My Chest, Any Italian Who is a Bigot is More of an Asshole Than Anyone Else

[NNadir]

5. My grandfather slapped one of my aunts when she was a girl for talking to an Italian boy.

She married a full blooded Italian when she grew up, as did two of her sisters and many, many, many of her nieces and nephews.

I married the daughter of a first generation Italian.

I gave my sons their mother's Italian last name, a beautiful name, much more honorable than my own.

None of my sisters-in-law, all half Italian, are bigots. They have their faults, but they are not bigots. I personally don't know any bigots of Italian extraction, although truth be told, I knew some when I was growing up, which was a long time ago.

There is no ethnic group in the American melting pot in which bigotry is acceptable, not Irish, not Italian, not African American, not Jews, Slavs, Arabic, Native American, no one.

After all we are not "Germans" or "Irish" or "Chinese." We are Americans, brought together in the most ethnically diverse country in the world.

The great strength of the United States is that we have had the honor of incorporating the best and brightest and bravest from all cultures all around the world. This may be eroded under the temporary dictatorship of the ignorant, bigoted and lazy, the last gasps of the Republican party, but I believe because of our strength and cultural richness we will restore decency to our country in short order.

A democrat, a very decent democrat who has led an honorable life was elected to the Senate from Alabama of all places after all, a democrat who prosecuted the criminals in a great historical hate crime.

This awful experience of the orange idiot and his puerile Ayn Rand worshipping collaborators will have a silver lining, inasmuch as the reaction to these cretins will be to reaffirm and expand decency in this country. This process is just beginning, but it will get there.

I have faith.