Rosario A. Iaconis Published 8:29 a.m. ET Sept. 19, 2017 Columbus Column in Columbus Circle, New York City.(Photo: Getty Images/Corbis Documentary) Declaring war on Christopher Columbus will do nothing to eradicate racism, sexism, hate crimes or income inequality in America. The…
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With Leaders Like This…
Let’s be clear: Italian American politicians have every right not to automatically help us. But when they easily support other communities – ethnic, racial, or sexual – and pay us lip-service, then it’s time to call them out. The other day, Governor Andrew Cuomo…
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Celebration or Atonement?
Things are heating up in the Columbus Day controversy – an annual challenge to our European icon. It is obvious that the target on the Great Navigator’s back is bigger than ever now that the old Confederacy – its flag, statues, and memorials –…
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Who’s There for Columbus?
We can’t restore our civilization with somebody else’s babies.” -Geert Wilders, a candidate for Dutch prime minister. When Wilders’s statement was echoed by an American congressman, it was roundly condemned across the political spectrum as racist, nativist, and the usual…
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How August Went Christian
August 15th is celebrated in the Catholic world as the day Jesus’s mother Mary ascended into heaven – the Feast of the Assumption. It’s a holy day of obligation for Catholics, a tribute to the Virgin Mary, not to the man for whom the…
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