[ April 22, 2024 ]
“They have forgotten what the contributions of different cultures have meant to various societies. There is the bad, as we have seen from history, and as we see now, but there is also the good. If Caucasians are so bad, then why is one section of the world struggling to empty into the Western lands? Do you see any exodus headed elsewhere?” [Facebook]
Stop Mayor Red Bill de Blasio. Again. Now it’s the Italian-American heritage assault. On the steps of NY City Hall, a press conference was held in support of the Columbus Circle statue. A GIFT to the city of NY in 1892 by Italian immigrants.
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A passionate roster of speakers, mostly Italian-Americans were there, but none came to hate on America. They spoke with pride as Americans who are also proud of their Italian heritage.
Opening remarks from Councilman Joseph Borelli (R-South Shore).
Borelli begins by mentioning the significance of Italian American protests in 1970-1. And now Columbus is next on the chopping block. He warns de Blasio and Mark-Viverito, who are opening historical arguments 4oo years old, your actions are more divisive than uniting. The iconoclasm we are seeing […] will look foolish 200 years from now. How will our actions today be judged. This an unfortunate chapter in NYC’s history. We are concerned about preserving his (Columbus’) legacy. We are asking […] he be judged through the lens of the era in which he lived.”
Congressman Borelli was followed by Joe Piscopo (Piscopo excerpts)
“This is about my grandparents. They came from Italy. They came in steerage. On the boat to Ellis island, passed the statue of liberty. With no respect they came to this country. You know what they did? They learned the law. They learned the language. They were proud to become Americans. I wasn’t allowed to speak Italian in the house. They became Americans. The one iconic symbol for Italian-Americans was Christopher Columbus. He’s flawed. We’re all flawed. Hey, I’m flawed. We’re all flawed. You know what gets me frustrated … Italians have no respect. We never complain… When we were prejudiced against. When they hung Sicilians in New Orleans (**lynched March 14, 1891 **) Teddy Roosevelt said, “They got what they deserved.” FDR interned Italians during WW2. We didn’t complain because WE WERE AMERICANS. Leave our statues alone. (cheers). Stop the political correctness. It’s killing us. Keep the greatness, keep the texture, the character of the United States of America.”
The reality that politicians of a “progressive” persuasion – aka Marxists – seem to be gaining ground as they “progressively” wipe our American history from the history books inspired multiple speakers. They spoke passionately of their pride in America and our shared history. [Part 1 – Candidates were introduced “Bo” Dietl, Michel Faulkner, Steve Saperstein, Lucretia Potter.
5 speakers (in order): Sen. Diane Savino (D-North Shore/Brooklyn), Council Minority Leader Steven Matteo (R-Mid-Island), Assemblyman Ronald Castorina Jr., Brooklyn Councilman Vincent Gentile, Councilman Mark Mark Treyger,
These proud Americans put the mayor on notice that no one is going to suck-it-up and accept his offensive proposals. Leave our statues ALONE. Part 2 –Staten Island artist Scott LoBaido is introduced followed by 5 speakers (in order) Queens Councilman, Eric Ulrich, Joe Guagliardo, National Council Of Columbia Associations, Joe Sciame, former president Sons of Italy in America, John (?), and last – the attorney representing 10,000 members in the NYPD Association and Manny Rothstein.
It was a moving and informative 45 minutes presser. Well-attended by the press, a press that was clearly not too sympathetic to the cause as was apparent in the Q and A. You can see and hear the disdain in the reporters’ questions.
So, will Mayor “Red Bill” and his fellow traveler, Melissa Mark-Viverito, diverge from their path of destruction? Not bloody likely.
Will the citizens of NYC allow this proud Italian-American symbol of our shared American history to disappear, treated with disdain by the anti-America Left? Not bloody likely.
This is war. Americans vs the Marxist cabal. Game on.
+++ This is a partial list of names mentioned in video: Councilman Joseph Borelli (R-South Shore), Sen. Diane Savino (D-North Shore/Brooklyn), Assemblyman Ronald Castorina Jr., Council Minority Leader Steven Matteo (R-Mid-Island), Assemblyman Matthew Titone (D-North Shore), Staten Island artist Scott LoBaido, comedian Joe Piscopo, Brooklyn Councilman Vincent Gentile, Joseph Guagliardo of the National Council Of Columbia Associations, Joseph Sciame, the former president of the Sons of Italy in America.++++
Ending with a flashback to the art exhibit built around the Columbus statue in 2012.
I was thrilled to walk up the scaffolding stairs, to see the Columbus statue up-close on September 20, 2012. But, was this a good thing?
October 2012- “Discovering Columbus”- a rare opportunity to see the 1892 marble figure of the great Italian explorer up close. Nishi, who is internationally known for transforming historical monuments by surrounding them with domestic spaces, said the aim of his piece is to put the viewer at eye level with the statue. “Discovering Columbus” is his first public art project in the United States.
However, this particular art-event – “Discovering Columbus” – was met with derision by the Italian American community; covering up the statue with a scaffolding, on Columbus Day 2012? Not nice.
And now, five years later, they fight the outrageous possibility of removing the statue all together and RENAMING the Circle ++ LENAPE CIRCLE ++
What’s next? Renaming the continents? No more Amergus Vespuci. No more “America”. Sadly the big LIE of “indigenous” people to the North and South American continents would live on.
** 1891 lynchings mentioned by Joe Piscopo – In late 19th-century America there was a growing prejudice against Italians, who were immigrating to the American South in large numbers to fill the shortage of cheap labor created by the end of slavery. Sugar planters, in particular, sought workers who were lower paid and more compliant than former slaves; they hired immigrant recruiters who began bringing the Italians to southern Louisiana. In the 1890s, thousands of Italians were arriving in New Orleans each year. Many settled in the French Quarter, which by the early 20th century became known as “Little Sicily.”[22]
Southern Italians were not considered full-fledged members of the “white race”… Between 1890 and 1910, Sicilians made up less than 4 percent of the white male population, yet were roughly 40 percent of the white victims of southern lynch mobs.[54] **
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37 Comments
6 years ago
Save the Columbus statue!
Remove Mayor DeBlasio!
6 years ago
Reply to
karl59
columbus was muslim and he discovered america. But islam forbid statues, so the columbus statue has to go. Anyway no mosque will be torn down. Italians arrived to america and now is almost mandatory to eat pasta. Muslims have arrived to america and then it will be mandatory sharia law
6 years ago
Reply to
Trump can't ban islam
Now just pay attention to what the men in the little white suits tell you and do what they say. They are only trying to make you better.
6 years ago
Reply to
Trump can't ban islam
Christopher Columbus came fro Italian parents, HE WAS NOT A MUSLIM YOU FUCKING MORON! DIDN’T YOU EVER GO TO SCHOOL YOU STUPID, MORONIC BASTARD??
6 years ago
Reply to
karl59
WELL IF YOU ARE FROM NYC IT IS UP TO YOU ALL TO FIRE THE MAYOR, WHY DID YOU VOTE FOR HIM?
D
6 years ago
Great people!
6 years ago
Left/Liberal , antifa, BLM , jihadi want to erase history so their agenda can gain ground . Its dangerous to allow them free run.
Arrest, penalise them for destroying historical monuments and public property. And deport the hardcore repeat offenders among Left/liberals along with Muslims like this country is doing http://bit.ly/2gh6A72
..only this can save non-muslim lands from future such destruction and jihadis attacks.
6 years ago
I continue to be amazed at how accurately George Orwell predicted the future in his writings. Life is now accurately imitating his art.
6 years ago
Reply to
InfidelCrusader
It’s actually uncanny and bloody scary how 1984 seems to be the near future.. I remember my reaction when I read the book.. It was – I don’t want to live in a world like this.. I thought the book was a horror story..
6 years ago
Reply to
Lynn D
1984 was and is a horror story. I had the same reaction when I first read it. I never believed such horror would begin taking shape in my lifetime. How wrong I was!
6 years ago
Reply to
InfidelCrusader
Orwell, as a socialist himself, knew how collectivism like international socialism/communism, national socialism (Nazism) and fascism always lead to totalitarianism and oppression. It’s interesting to see that today’s left (as
much as they can in the West with laws protecting human rights) resort to the same methods that were used by Stalin, Hitler, and Mussolini.
6 years ago
Write those who want to re-write history, into the history books as the foolish garbage that they portray them selves as. The total stupidity of todays socialist is a direct copy of the constant attempted manipulation of humanity by islam, which has always been a failure and always will be.
6 years ago
i’ll back the white guys in suits and ties over the democrat dog dooh anyday
6 years ago
Is Governor Cumo HIDING again?
Cumo is Italian!
His parents were both of Italian descent; his paternal grandparents were from Nocera Inferiore and Tramonti in South Italy, while his maternal grandparents were both from Sicily (his grandfather from Messina)
6 years ago
“Russian collusion” Special Counsel Robert Mueller is taking a lesson from Columbus. When Columbus set out on his voyage he didn’t know where he was going, when he got there he didn’t know where he was, when he returned he didn’t know where he had been, and he did it all on someone else’s money.
6 years ago
Reply to
Drew the Infidel
He was looking for India. And discovered America. In fact – the first person discovered America was Amerigo Vespucci. That’s why we live in America, not in Columbia.
6 years ago
Reply to
tatka150
Vespucci was Columbus’s navigator and the newly discovered shores were named in his honor. Modest fellow, this Columbus.
6 years ago
Reply to
tatka150
And in reality it was the Norse viking and explorer Leif Eriksson that first discovered what is now called America.
Cool picture:
6 years ago
Reply to
Mike E
If Eriksson discovered it, it was only for Europeans, because I believe indigenous native Americans were already living here. In any case I’m sure Eriksson soon left, because there wasn’t much to plunder on the North American continent at the time.
6 years ago
Lucia ain’t gonna like this!
6 years ago
If any non-White, including Hispanics and native Americans
use the following in their daily lives – cease and desist from
doing so immediately – if you intend to complain and tear
down monuments to anyone White. Otherwise, it is
cultural appropriation from Whites and you are complete
hypocrites!
The list is: cars – planes – trains – modern medicine and surgery – technology such as the internet, cell phones,
video recorders, GPS devices – all things plastic – use and
exchange of money – traffic systems – flush toilets –
electricity – refrigeration – air conditioning – modern heating –
skyscrapers – DNA and forensic crime solving – and even more.
If the statue of the Italian explorer, Christopher Columbus,
comes down to be replaced by a monument to the Lenape
Indians – don’t you hypocrites use ANY White advancement
skills to build it, not even trucks to haul the material.
HYPOCRITES! Using White brainpower, technology and
everything else – while trying to tear down everything White!
6 years ago
Reply to
Annie
Exactly!
The groups that have taken over our societies in the West (and that includes the stupid, emotional and irrational white journalists in MSM) haven’t contributed anything to our science, technology, freedom, wealth etc., etc.
6 years ago
Place your bets…on the Americans.
6 years ago
The so called brown people have been invading and slaughtering and enslaving each other for millennia and they are bringing that culture here, all they need is the numbers and you ain’t seem nothin yet. The only part of the world where are are 25 million slaves today is black Muslim Africa. Jew hatred is standard in every inch of the world, that’s about the only common denominator, it ain’t love , just look at the wonderful love nest called the United nations, aka the world’s biggest mosque. The so called peaceful native Americans, aka indians, slaughtered and enslaved each other for millenia as welll. They are possibly the biggest lie going. They weren’t sitting around doing macrame and smoking the peace pipe until we showed up. The only people responsible for ending slavery world wide are the white Christians, jews have always been slaves socially until about the last 100 years or so, and that’s only really USA and Israel, still social slaves everywhere else, but we gain our emancipation by keeping our head down and working and achieving, no Jewish lives matter marches necessary….usually that ended with us getting mowed down in a pogrom
Great Orwell quote
6 years ago
Obama and the left never worked for America but for the U.N. and the NWO and for the last 8+ years they have been destroying everything in American history and rewriting it in their Communist image! It is as evil as it gets and why the left did not adopt God in the democratic platform during their convention!
6 years ago
My hatred of islam has long been established. No doubts. No what ifs. No question…… And that conclusion is based on fact, historical data in fact…… I could care less that people call me islamophobic, anti-muslim, etc etc…..
Now, as a white, irish, native New Englander, who is a career Soldier of both war and peace, I have come to this conclusion:
My prejudice has now formed a sort of angelic halo above my head, as after the past few years I learned two things:
First: never be a sucker for bleeding heart thought and theory, as it makes you look like a womb rejected, DNA flawed poster child for toilet bowl residue.
Second: Never identify with one who has a hard time identifying with self… as in blacks, antifa, and skin heads. The worst of the three? Blacks.. and yes, I am now prejudiced and/or racist. Blacks have me the insight to racism, and now, here I be..
Blacks in America have caused me to see the KKK as choirboys. To want to exterminate any reference to slavery or the “po lil’ black boy” whine and cry tantrum, is pathetic, immature, irresponsible, racist, and anti-American. SLAVERY HAS BEEN OVER FOR TENS OF DECADES. GET THE HELL OVER IT AS IT HAS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO DO WITH YOU…..
I now want the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to be abolished. Affirmative action as a racist agenda, will be terminated……
So, as blacks identify with self established racism, and because they have an identity crisis: black, n****r, people of color, african American, minority, negro….. to name a few……… a classification process should be established to help the identity crisis. But, there should be one more identifier added to their list of identifiers…… RACIST…..
The only country in the world that has come full circle to the benefit of blacks, and they desecrate its flag? Values??
I call for the extinction if islam. I now hope that we can form a group called RTA or Return to Africa. If it is so bad here, pack up and RTA will give you say……
Yes!! Now I am a racist. But at least I love and defend my flag. Obey the laws. Not use multiple identifiers for a “gimme, gimme, gimme, cuz im a po white boy”. If I apply for a job, I want to earn it based on skill, intellect, and values. If there is a piece of history like a, oh, I don’t know, a STATUE OF MARTIN LUTHER KING who used race to identify with just that, I will not seek its demise or destruction. If I see the statue of General Robert E. Lee, I will look at him as a war hero who MAY have had a history of MISTAKES. I will proudly display the Confederate Flag as it is a blanket of freedom and effort……….
As an educated, intellectual Irish fella from the Tri State area, a native New Englander if you will, I STAND WITH THE ITALIANS AND CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS…….
To hell with NON AMERICANS…..
6 years ago
Reply to
Mack Pooh
Obama has STOCKED them
“STOCKING” Like when a
farmer stocks a pond with bass or he stocks a field with quail. Obama is
“STOCKING” this country with Muslims and other undesirables knowing
full well that they will multiply like rats and wild hogs AT TAXPAYER EXPENSE
and cause mayhem forever into the future of this country.
Could there be any more proof that Obama hates this country.
6 years ago
Years ago I had booklets titled, We Are Americans,and I would stop at a home that was flying an American flag. I knock on one door and a man opened it and I started to tell him why I there. Somewhat gruff, he said to go around to the back, as there was construction going on. We began talking and he gave me a brief history of when his father moved from Italy to a home in America. When they moved in, he instructed his family that they would only speak English and he put up an American flag.
6 years ago
6 years ago
Reply to
AR154U☑ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖ DEPLORABLE 2020
WATCH THE LANGUAGE, NO IT IS ALL HUMAN BEINGS OF GOOD NATURE WORK TOGETHER….
6 years ago
This reminds me of an episode of ‘The Sopranos’ but at least the native Americans were only objecting to a Columbus Day Parade and have a legitimate claim.
However, these moronic liberals don’t seem to have thought that without CC they wouldn’t be where they are today.
6 years ago
“It is the purpose of Islam to destroy all art because it is Jahiliyyah” explains Dr. Bll Warner. The attacker intended to damage or destroy some of the priceless works of art that are exhibited in the most renowned art museum in the world. His intent was to destroy the finest art of Western civilization.
Why art? Art that involves animals or humans is forbidden in the Sharia. Art is the work of Kafirs and is part of jahiliyya (civilization of ignorance). Islam annihilates a civilization piece by piece and leaves nothing of its native roots. Civilizational jihad destroys the very cultural history of every nation it comes into contact with.
We see the jihadist annihilation of museums and ancient architecture for the same reason. This civilizational war has been this way for 1400 years.
Since 9/11 islam has considered they have conquered us and is demanding the “JIZYA” aka obama health plan and the removal of our treasured historical statues.
D
6 years ago
In the history of the World, there are countless examples of brutality and killings. But it seems we hear very little about the brutality among the American Indians. Isis could take lessons from some of it.
6 years ago
To the sell out waterboy press I say, “What happens when it’s your turn?”
6 years ago
This will not stop… Will go on and on, with the left, until all our history erased, or REVISED
