Monday, October 14, 2019
Mother Cabrini - A Great Soul Being Insulted By/In NYC Politics
Mother Cabrini in her lifetime did more charity for the benefit of humanity than a dozen billionaires today and their greasy check books. This is more than an ethnic thing to me. Pity she is being tossed around today as some sort of political football in a popularity contest/poll for statue space to reinforce feminism and not true female power of soul. I won't call the mayor's wife biased but she and her circle have a lot of PC blindspots. Just saying.
https://nypost.com/2019/10/13/cuomo-on-cabrini-statue-snub-is-symbol-of-difficult-times-in-this-country/
Speaking at Saturday night’s Columbus Citizens Foundation Gala, Cuomo urged the entire Italian-American community to “stand up” in support of the honor — calling it an “affront” that Mother Cabrini was passed over despite coming first in a poll by first lady Chirlane McCray’s “She Built NYC” statue program.
Cuomo suggested that the rejection was emblematic of the “difficult times in this country” with the “pain and the injustice of discrimination.”
“There is a fear, there’s an anxiety, there’s a divisiveness that you see and feel every day,” he said.
“As Italian-Americans, we must also remember that we ourselves are not immune from attack. The ugliness of Italian American stereotyping is still alive and well. Our battle is not over.”
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