A Culture Of Racism: The Staten Island PD And The Tea Party Congressman
"Saturday, May 2, 2015
Rep Grimm and NYPD Captain Peter DeBlasio
I grew up in New York in a neighborhoodthat was largely Italian. New York, likeAnytown, USA, has its own version ofracism. It is not the kind you hear in thepost-Jim Crow South; it is more “ethnic.” Conversation amongst high school friendsincluded racial epithets in Italian, veryoffensive to African Americans, thrownaround casually. It almost seemed normalto hear the word “ moolignan,” Italian foreggplant (technically Mulignane; could becombination of Moolie and hooligan) or“spic” for a Hispanic person."
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