“SENATOR, WHEN AN IMMIGRATION CASE COMES BEFORE ME, I THINK ABOUT MY OWN IMMIGRANT ANCESTORS, AND THE FACT OF HOW DIFFERENT THAT WAS … BECAUSE THEY WERE WHITE.”
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“SENATOR, WHEN AN IMMIGRATION CASE COMES BEFORE ME, I THINK ABOUT MY OWN IMMIGRANT ANCESTORS, AND THE FACT OF HOW DIFFERENT THAT WAS … BECAUSE THEY WERE WHITE.”
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No, ITALIANS are as “brown” as Latinas. So are many other immigrant groups now considered “White”. Hispanics just like to think that they’re “special”. I also wonder what race Ms. Sotomayor puts on her Census form, as Hispanics may be and are of ANY race.
Any person of Italian American heritage who take seriously their history in this country would not make the mistake of considering themselves white. When the first Italian immigrants arrived at Ellis Island they were referred to as “WOPS”, without papers, our ancestors were undocumented aliens. The largest lynching in U.S. history occurred at the end of the nineteenth century and involved Italian American laborers in New Orleans, who were wrongfully accused of murder and hanged by the neck by a lynch mob when it was intimated that they might be innocent. Famously, Sacco and Vendetti were wrongly accused of the rape and murder of a small child and executed; less famous were the concentration camps for Italian Americans in World War II. Any Italian American who take the “white” side of the race issue oe the native side of the immigration issue is a sycophant or a fool. And that is the difference between Alito and Sotomayor.