Anti-Italian Racism returns

Essential businesses now include the statue removal contractors. Few people understand that the Columbus Day holiday was begun as a response to anti-Italian bigotry in America. Surprising, huh? Didn’t teach that in school!

“These anti-Italian sentiments occasionally led to brutal violence. One of the largest mass lynchings in the United States occurred in New Orleans in 1891, when 11 Sicilian immigrants were lynched after the city's police commissioner was killed and suspicion had been placed on the Italian community. (The 11 men had been found not guilty before the lynching. A New York Times editorial had this reaction: "Yet while every good citizen will readily assent to the proposition that this affair is to be deplored, it would be difficult to find any one individual who would confess that privately he deplores it very much.")

“The first official commemoration of Columbus' journey occurred in 1892, just a year after the New Orleans lynchings. That's when President Benjamin Harrison became the first president to call for a national observance of Columbus Day, in honor of the 400th anniversary of Columbus' arrival. “

https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2013/10/14/232120128/how-columbus-sailed-into-u-s-history-thanks-to-italians

? Lives Mattter?

Police Identify 18-Year-Old DC Woman Killed Blocks From Union Station nbcwashington.com https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/police-identify-18-year-old-dc-woman-killed-blocks-from-union-station/2331407/

Starbucks to close up to 400 locations over the next 18 months yahoo.com This is disappointing. Starbucks drinks are overpriced and so is their food. But I tolerate it because they used to provide a nice atmosphere to sit down, read the paper, and talk with friends. Then they got embarrassed because their store manager actually enforced rules about having to be a customer to sit at their tables. In response, Starbucks allowed its in-store experience to deteriorate and available tables for its paying customers got harder to find. So, now, none of the customers at these refashioned takeout only stores can use their restrooms or sit at tables. And Starbucks saves money!

Why Did they Close the Schools?

aier.org

https://www.aier.org/article/why-did-the-close-the-schools/

Los Angeles won't prosecute curfew violations

nbcnews.com

Of course not. Every protester/rioter/looter/vandal/arsonist knew that the curfew was an empty threat. 

• We really enjoyed the first six months of the school year as our kids attended a public school for the first time for 8th and 4th grade. Great teachers, great kids, great staff. But I just don’t get the efforts to “distance learn.” I wrote this to the Superintendent yesterday about 4th grade: “Let's stop kidding ourselves! The math teacher checks with the kids once a week for 30 minutes. Same with the regular classroom teacher. Yet, if our kids had been permitted to attend the facility after March 13, they would have been at school for 32 plus hours a week. How does that square with the one hour that the teachers spend online with the kids?” “How is that one hour of teacher interaction online equates with dozens of hours of in person time? It makes no sense.”

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Beautiful California! My home state!

Why is that state not open?

The screaming headline intends to scare: 125,000 cases!!!!

Where’s the perspective? The state’s governor predicted 25,500,000 cases by May 8. One month ago.

The state has 1/2 of one percent of his March 20 expert prediction. (WSJ, 3/20/20)

https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/06/06/coronavirus-california-passes-125000-cases-over-15000-in-bay-area/