running the government like a business, I wouldn't have anything to do with that business. Is it any wonder that Trump has failed at everything he has ever done in his personal life?

Sadly he discovered that getting involved in politics is probably the most lucrative business in America - you can lie, cheat, steal and there is nothing that anyone can do to you.

I hate to say it but America sucks these days, absolutely sucks.

Or is he just shaking down the oligarchy?

about not really being white people. Pretty sure ours wasn't the only Italian heritage family to do so.

I am glad not to be whitebread.

A former girlfriend was reading a book, I think it was a predecessor to "Personal Color", and commented that she was so jealous that everything matched olive skin. ( well, sort of)

And also glad not to be an Oompa Loompa. 🍊

That was a time when immigrants wanted more than anything not to be "outsiders" or "different". The cultures of my heritage were passed down in family functions and gatherings, but the languages were lost in less than a generation becaise parents wanted to "fit in" and speak English. No kid wanted to be called, take your pick of insulting ethnic slurs. Always makes me sad that I can't at least understand the languages my grandparents spoke.

They call you friend to your face, but don’t believe they aren’t calling you a dirty W@P behind your back.

They mocked our food. They forbid our languages. They interned our grandparents during WWII.

Even today, the people who gave us the greatest artists, incredible scientists, chocolate as we know it, and incredible architecture can only be represented as thugs by Hollywood.

is what I;ve always understood W-P to stand for. There's also the joke about why so many Italians are named Tony (the subway signs read To NY). And, I know it's because Anthony is Catholic saint, not the signage.

But many white eastern European ethnic immigrants faced discrimination, too

That forbade their immigration.

And I believe il guapo was the origin of the slur.

Anti-Italian sentiment is allowed here on DU. When Scaramucci was appointed, the Italian jokes flowed like maple syrup around here. Mods did nothing except pass out hides for those of us calling out the “jokes” as racism.

But, jmho, all this angst over statues isn't productive.

To see a bunch of over privileged suburban hipsters and soccer moms bad mouthing Columbus while drinking a Starbucks and living in track homes. It is literally the definition of hypocrisy.

You don’t cuss a farmer with a mouthful of food.

And who was an evil human being.

He'd fit right in with the Trump cult today.

Marigalante was his blasphemous nickname for La Santa Maria but the one in question wasn't concerned as he was a whore monger and Maria in all her glory pleased him. On his second voyage he did have a Marigalante officially.
And after his return from the first voyage he did not go straight back to "Spain" as a good doggie. Instead he tried to strike a deal with "Portugal". This will force the Pope to draw the Line of Demarcation.
Interesting that in the Royal Court in Madrid a delegation was from Genoa and they knew him not. No evidence he wrote in Italian, but in the dialect of Barcelona where he had a residence.

Has a lot in common with Trump. Drumpf Columbus (Colom?)

Didn't know where he was going. Didn't know where he was when he got there . And never realized where he had been. Also went bankrupt.

Since when is the Eisenhower Executive Building on "White House grounds"?

sloppy slop.

President

Columbus promoted the trafficking of women and underage girls from the indigenous people he "discovered."

https://vawnet.org/sites/default/files/assets/files/2020-02/NRCDV_ColonizationHomelessnessandProstitution-Jan2020.pdf]

got totally lost looking for India

This is just another stick it to the libs.

They love it when Trump trash talks about Mueller death, when ICE goons murder protesters in the streets...they literally can't get enough of Trump's shittiness. We live in a country full of monsters.

long before Chris!

It's in Statuary Hall. It was donated by Mississippi in 1931.

I couldn't believe it when I saw it.

Who went to a Caribbean island to r@pe women.

was Spanish and he only spoke Spanish. You will see how fast he removes that statue.