Italian-American men were among Trump’s strongest constituencies, and they remain a hard spine of the MAGA movement: cops, firefighters, contractors, small-business owners, union guys, builders, churchmen, and families that remember what work means. Mamdani knows exactly what that culture represents: faith, patriotism, assimilation, masculinity, family, anti-communism, and earned American identity. So Little Italy gets memory-holed while the approved identity map gets polished. This is not diversity. It is political payback by a petty, small, and dangerous man. Italian Americans helped build New York with brick, steel, sweat, bread, police shields, parish festivals, and blood in America’s wars. They did not become invisible because their grandchildren succeeded. The map can pretend Little Italy is gone. History knows better. Mulberry Street knows better. San Gennaro knows better. And every Italian-American patriot who voted against Mamdani’s Red-Green grievance machine knows exactly what this snub means.
Quick story: After the devastation of their country during WWII, millions of Italians were distributed to North America, Australia, and elsewhere. The post-war Italian Republic created Senate seats for those displaced Italians, including North America (US & Canada). The late Ron Turano, a Chicago baker, was one of their most recent Senators. During a US Capitol tour, I asked Ron where he campaigned. He mentioned four cities: Chicago, Toronto, New York, and Philadelphia, where the vast majority of Italian citizens were domiciled. To ignore "Little Italy" by Mamdani is an egregious insult.
Roger, you are one helluva story-teller. Our grandfather came to America in the early 1900's, traveling to southwestern Wyoming to work in the coal mines. Later he contracted with the U.S. postal service to transport bulk mail from train depot to local location by horse and wagon. His entrepreneurial spirit served him well, acquiring rental properties and a liquor license for the town's hotel.
And in his cellar he always had a little homemade wine fermenting.
Favoritism towards certain ethnic groups that agree with his political philosophy (and hatred of Jews and Christians)
is divisive and diluting our "more perfect union" and "out of many one". The goal is clear - one collective political ideology - Bloat each branch of government, limit individual rights, elevate government corruption, and laws for the people but not the scammers. Rewire the brain of humanity to easily condition their oppression. Books will be burned including the Bible and gun ownership taken away....theocratic religious leaders who fall under this political ideology like in Iran could include beheadings of the innocent. Sound the alarm! Watch out beautiful America...
Italian-American men were among Trump’s strongest constituencies, and they remain a hard spine of the MAGA movement: cops, firefighters, contractors, small-business owners, union guys, builders, churchmen, and families that remember what work means. Mamdani knows exactly what that culture represents: faith, patriotism, assimilation, masculinity, family, anti-communism, and earned American identity. So Little Italy gets memory-holed while the approved identity map gets polished. This is not diversity. It is political payback by a petty, small, and dangerous man. Italian Americans helped build New York with brick, steel, sweat, bread, police shields, parish festivals, and blood in America’s wars. They did not become invisible because their grandchildren succeeded. The map can pretend Little Italy is gone. History knows better. Mulberry Street knows better. San Gennaro knows better. And every Italian-American patriot who voted against Mamdani’s Red-Green grievance machine knows exactly what this snub means.
Quick story: After the devastation of their country during WWII, millions of Italians were distributed to North America, Australia, and elsewhere. The post-war Italian Republic created Senate seats for those displaced Italians, including North America (US & Canada). The late Ron Turano, a Chicago baker, was one of their most recent Senators. During a US Capitol tour, I asked Ron where he campaigned. He mentioned four cities: Chicago, Toronto, New York, and Philadelphia, where the vast majority of Italian citizens were domiciled. To ignore "Little Italy" by Mamdani is an egregious insult.
Roger, you are one helluva story-teller. Our grandfather came to America in the early 1900's, traveling to southwestern Wyoming to work in the coal mines. Later he contracted with the U.S. postal service to transport bulk mail from train depot to local location by horse and wagon. His entrepreneurial spirit served him well, acquiring rental properties and a liquor license for the town's hotel.
And in his cellar he always had a little homemade wine fermenting.
Favoritism towards certain ethnic groups that agree with his political philosophy (and hatred of Jews and Christians)
is divisive and diluting our "more perfect union" and "out of many one". The goal is clear - one collective political ideology - Bloat each branch of government, limit individual rights, elevate government corruption, and laws for the people but not the scammers. Rewire the brain of humanity to easily condition their oppression. Books will be burned including the Bible and gun ownership taken away....theocratic religious leaders who fall under this political ideology like in Iran could include beheadings of the innocent. Sound the alarm! Watch out beautiful America...
What’s next, Chinatown?
Another great article, Sir.
Roger, I'm surprised you failed to mention that historically NYC Jewish neighbourhoods have also been omitted.
Communist have been pissed off at Italians for years
REPARATIONS if your name ends in a vowel…