Appreciation thread for Jim Acosta

[NewJeffCT]

45. that might not work for all the racists, though

my family came here from Europe somewhere around 1900 - my father's side from Poland, my mom's side from Italy and Sicily. Despite living here for over 70 years, my great grandmother barely spoke any English her entire life - she lived in a heavily Italian town and neighborhood in Connecticut and never needed to learn it: there is a pharmacy there that still says "Farmacia" on it to this day - the Italian spelling of Pharmacy. However, like almost all immigrants, her children and grandchildren all spoke fluent English. (Unfortunately, since my grandparents couldn't agree on whether to teach my mom Italian or Sicilian, they taught her neither, and my dad never learned Polish)

My wife came to the US from China about 20 years ago and spoke much better English than any of my great grandparents ever did when they came to American around 1900.