Tag: Italians
Italians (More Like Italian-Americans) Should Be Happy to Unclaim Christopher Columbus
As far as Italian-American “heroes” go, they’re pretty few and far between. Mainly because all of them seek to represent an embarrassing interpretation of what [Read More…]
Tony Bennett: The Model Italian-American (Or At Least Less Affronting Than Most)
As a second generation Italian-American (with his mother, Anna Suraci, born right after his grandmother arrived in the U.S.), Tony Bennett had the potential to [Read More…]
The Super Mario Bros. Movie: Why Is This Damaging Italian Stereotype Still “Okay” in 2023?
Despite the phenomenon of so-called woke culture coming for everything under the sun with regard to accusations of being offensive, the one glaring ethnicity that [Read More…]
Saturday Night Live Reached Many Lows with Elon Musk as Host but Nothing Quite as Affronting as the Super Mario Bros. Sketch
One would think that with “the landscape” being what it is that, by now, all forms of racism would be deemed offensive and unacceptable. Saturday Night Live, and [Read More…]
Cristoforo Colombo: The Ultimate Italian Bastardo
As time has worn on and people have gradually come to know that Christopher Columbus was a total asshole who didn’t discover America or much [Read More…]