Re:Caste in California: Tech giants confront ancient Indian ...
by throw0101a on Tuesday August 16, 2022 @08:00AM
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> My grandparents were born in the 1920s. One side is Polish, the other side is Italian.
Columbus Day was started by the Italian community to show that they were 'really American':
> The first national Columbus Day was proclaimed in 1892 by Republican President Benjamin Harrison to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Italian-born explorer Christopher Columbus’s supposed discovery of America.
> But for Harrison, it served another purpose: to help resolve a diplomatic crisis with Italy — and gain support among Italian American voters — after rioters in New Orleans lynched 11 Italian immigrants the year before.
Columbus Day was started by the Italian community to show that they were 'really American':
> The first national Columbus Day was proclaimed in 1892 by Republican President Benjamin Harrison to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Italian-born explorer Christopher Columbus’s supposed discovery of America.
> But for Harrison, it served another purpose: to help resolve a diplomatic crisis with Italy — and gain support among Italian American voters — after rioters in New Orleans lynched 11 Italian immigrants the year before.
* https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2021/10/10/columbus-d...
Italians were not "white" to many Americans:
* https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/10/12/opinion/colum...