Because we’re one of the few immigrant classes who assimilated and embraced how amazing this country is. Wake up people. This was done on purpose. This guy sucks
Leaving Italians off an NYC immigrant map is basically a hate crime, but it’s also revealing.
My family is exactly why the communist has no use for assimilated ethnic groups.
My grandfather adopted this country, changed his name from Luigi to Louis, and we even anglicized the pronunciation of our last name — the kind of assimilation the left now treats as racist when expected of anyone else.
He lost a brother in WWII and helped found the Helen Keller National Center for the DeafBlind. My other grandfather fought in the Pacific.
They came here to become Americans.
That breaks their revolutionary model.
Proletariat vs. bourgeoisie never fit America because income groups move. People rise, fall, start businesses, buy homes, intermarry, change neighborhoods and become something new.
Ethnicity is more useful to radicals because it can be treated as permanent. Immutable identity creates tribes. Shared citizenship dissolves them.
Assimilated Italians are inconvenient because they prove immigration can serve the nation instead of a permanent oppressor-vs.-oppressed coalition.
So they disappear.
If your project is to weaken institutions built on shared civic identity and capitalism, assimilation is the enemy.
And Balkanization is the tool.
Any great civilization of ancient history would have seen a blood red sky on the night of their sacred founding as an omen of unconquerable power and divine victory.
In 1783, the final remaining British troops left America in defeat.
As the last troops boarded their ships, they left one final insult behind: Greasing a flagpole with a Union Jack nailed to the top so the Americans could not raise their own colors.
John Van Arsdale, a young American, nailed wooden cleats up the pole and climbed up. He tore down the British flag and hoisted the Stars and Stripes.
Clarence Thomas embodies the spirit of defiance against the scourge of ideological zealotry.
“I would rather die than withdraw.”
Listen carefully to those words. They will define us going forward.
No surrender. No retreat. Into the breach.