by John Mancini | Jan 31, 2021 | Uncategorized
The current political and social upheaval unsettling our nation includes Americans of Italian descent on both sides of the turmoil. I don’t find all of them noble or worthy of praise just because they are “Italian.” It is their actions and ideology that...
by John Mancini | Jan 24, 2021 | Uncategorized
Communist China’s official news agency reported Donald Trump’s departure from the White House with the words: Good Riddance! The Communists followed those words with economic and travel sanctions against 25 ex-Trump officials, including Italian American...
by John Mancini | Jan 17, 2021 | Uncategorized
On the cusp of Inauguration Day and the Martin Luther King holiday, our nation is gearing up for the “change America!” promised by Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) recently. Under the Biden/Harris Administration, minorities will achieve command and control to a...
by John Mancini | Jan 10, 2021 | Uncategorized
Donald Trump did what his enemies could never do, destroy his own legacy. Maybe he should have stuck to tweets until his last day in office. Instead, his ego demanded live action. For weeks, he summoned his faithful to Washington, DC for a final rally -–...
by John Mancini | Jan 3, 2021 | Uncategorized
Since our perspective is Italic, I assembled a list of notable paesani who made a splash in 2020, that sobering and contentious year. Their talents ran the gamut from entertainment to science, but most of them got sucked into the political maelstrom that...
by John Mancini | Dec 27, 2020 | Uncategorized
I once managed a building in the Jewelry District of Manhattan. It was a truly multi-ethnic building with retail booths and manufacturing. One day, a number of my Jewish tenants complained about sneaker prints on the restroom toilet seats. That was...
by John Mancini | Dec 22, 2020 | Uncategorized
For Christmas Day, the IFC Channel on cable is offering “Christmas with the Family,” broadcasting a string of Mafia movies: Godfather I & II, GoodFellas, and A Bronx Tale. The family alluded to is, of course, any [Italian] crime family. In this...
by John Mancini | Dec 14, 2020 | Uncategorized
Last week, the Supreme Court of the United States refused to accept a lawsuit by the State of Texas against four “swing” states that Texas alleged violated election laws – laws enacted by their own state legislatures. Texas was joined in the suit by...
by John Mancini | Dec 8, 2020 | Uncategorized
A group of students at Brown University in Rhode Island have condemned statues of Caesar Augustus and Marcus Aurelius as White supremacists, and want them removed from campus. The group, Decolonization at Brown (DAB), asserts that the two Italic emperors represent...
by John Mancini | Oct 4, 2020 | Uncategorized
There is a popular image dating from the Second World War of Italians as untrustworthy allies and unworthy adversaries. Hollywood promoted these themes in war propaganda, then, and in popular movies since. The classic tale carrying these themes was Breaking...
by John Mancini | Sep 27, 2020 | Uncategorized
We may never have an Italian American in the Oval Office, but we’ve got some sacred icons. The nomination of Amy Coney Barrett for the Supreme Court has conjured up the spirit of Justice Antonin Scalia. Conservatives are championing her nomination with a simple...
by John Mancini | Sep 20, 2020 | Uncategorized
Last June, the city of Wilmington, Delaware abruptly dismantled statues of Columbus and Caesar Rodney, signer of the Declaration of Independence, ostensibly to avoid possible vandalism. I only learned of this the other day when President Donald Trump condemned the...
by John Mancini | Sep 13, 2020 | Uncategorized
Christopher Rufo is a young journalist of Italian stock (Lazio region) who just became the hero of traditional Americans around the country. It only took a guest appearance on FOX News, where he reported on a perverse form of diversity training in federal agencies, to...
by John Mancini | Sep 6, 2020 | Uncategorized
Whether you label it “Trump Derangement Syndrome,” “Trump-itis,” or just “Dump Trump,” there is a lot of hatred across the country for the man who occupies the White House. It’s not just about political preference. There is something about Donald Trump that evokes...
by John Mancini | Aug 30, 2020 | Uncategorized
I don’t think I’ve ever heard of an Italian American gangster resisting arrest. They all seem to go peaceably when the police or feds come. Did their parents give them “the Talk” before they embarked on their life of crime? The very idea that “capos,” “captains,”...
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