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 Rosario Iaconis | Oct 6, 2020 | Uncategorized
The United States is a proud multicultural society. And one of our founding precepts – e pluribus unum (out of many, one) – underscores this storied diversity. However, in removing Buffalo’s Christopher Columbus monument – and stripping the park of its...
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...
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