#162 - Looking Back to Move Forward - with Lisa Sharon Harper & Jerry Colonna
The Reboot Podcast
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You Can't Unsee Anymore
My grandfather, Dominic Gida, was a strong, capable man who built a life for himself and for relatives. When he actively founded the American Italian Association in Brooklyn, New York, it was within a context of virulent anti-Italian experiences. I can step empathetically into their shoes. I would not want to make the same choices, but I can understand their choices. We sit here now and on the southern border of the United States, where people, not unlike my ancestors, were fleeing poverty, oppression,. political, existential oppression, famine.
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