#162 - Looking Back to Move Forward - with Lisa Sharon Harper & Jerry Colonna
The Reboot Podcast
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The Myth of Immigrant Resilience
I think that there's a, you know, I looked at the experience of my ancestors and in the nativist white supremacist reaction to my ancestors coming to the United States. And within Theodore Roosevelt, who was vehemently anti-Italian, literally called, he spoke of a lynching of 11 Italian American men as a rather good thing because they were rattlesnakes. So for example, I can almost hear my relatives say, well, why do they need a handout? We didn't get a handout. Right? There was literally a person at Ellis Island who was making a chalk mark on a lapel saying, you can enter, you can entering, you can entry, you
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