New York City's ‘Little Italy’. Mulberry Street, Lower East Side, circa 1900
Alan: With few exceptions, "Know-Nothing Nativists" despise people of color.
There was even a time when Nativist Americans promoted the idea that Italians were black for no other reason than to denigrate them - in the core etymological sense of the word.
I grew up with Italian Americans.
I count a disproportionate number of Italian-Americans among my closest friends.
I married an Italian-American.
I treasure every minute spent in Italy.
And I would love to have a glass of vino rosso with Nancy Pelosi.
Here is how America's real haters operate - and continue to operate -- denigrating immigrants and resident minorities, abetted in their small-minded spite and malice by "nationalist" (read "nativist") Donald Trump.
A Brief History Of America’s Hostility To A Previous Generation Of Mediterranean Migrants — Italians
The recurrent theme of White Nationalism, Know-Nothing Nativism and White Supremacism is that adherents of these three ideologies are, with vanishingly few exceptions, ever ready to whoop someone's ass, preferably a person of color.
The American Party: Know Nothing Nativism And Opposition To Catholic Immigration
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Like the Pharisees, the Know Nothings are always with us.
Like the Pharisees, the Know Nothings are always with us.
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