Things you can learn on the Internet:
Antonin Gregory Scalia is the only child of Salvadore Eugene and Catherine Panaro Scalia. His father emigrated from Sicily as a teenager and came through Ellis Island.
That’s cool. One of my four great-grandfathers emigrated from the very northern tip of Italy through Ellis Island and settled in Hoboken, New Jersey. What’s more, little Antonin Scalia grew up in Hamilton, New Jersey, which is only 15 miles from where I grew up in Princeton, New Jersey.
As everyone who has seen True Romance and believes Quentin Tarantino’s version of history knows, all Sicilians are “part-eggplant.” Ever since that movie came out in 1993, people have been debating the degree to which Sicilians really do have black ancestry. Try battling through the Google results to find any decent scientific data on the subject.
Maybe Antonin saw that movie. Maybe he’s overcompensating a bit. Maybe we should have his mitochondrial-DNA tested to see if he’s white enough to vote in Alabama.
I’d say that if Scalia is any more than 4% black, we should just consider him black and ask him to correctly tell us how many jelly-beans are in a jar before we allow him to register to vote. Maybe he doesn’t know that at the time that Lincoln was running for president that one of the biggest constituencies that Republicans had to pander to were members of the Know Nothing Party who thought that Sicilians were no better than negroes and should be barred from entering the country.
Scalia…a type of Italian cracker.
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Quack, quack . . .
A rightly-conservative approach to the subject would apply the One Drop Rule to Scalia – originalism and what have you…
Well, although young Nino’s family may have squeaked in, at least we kept out the godforsaken Irish Catholics.
Wait… dammit…
Drone strikes on every Republican in the country is sounding more and more like a palatable option to deal with these fucking people.
Scalia’s missing a key element to blackness. Humanity. And his vote has already brought us, “Corporations are people too, my friend” and now he would have us believe that we are now so perfect that racism is only found in history books.
Rachel’s playing of LBJ’s speech was so poignant tonight.
May the gods give Scalia a wide stance in an airport stall somewhere very soon.
Sicilians have very mixed ancestry. Everybody was there, from the Normans to the Moors. But definitely some Sicilians have black ancestry. Some Corsicans too.
However, the northern tip of Italy has very little in common with the southern tip. In the north they blend with Austrian and Swiss, in the northeast with Dalmatians and in the northwest (Liguria), with Monaco/Provence.
It’s interesting how different immigrant families adapt to America. Sometimes extremely ethnic people become fanatically assimilationist. Spiro Agnew’s another example.
Don Corleone is going to make Scalia an offer that he can’t refuse, just one Sicilian to another.
So what.
Seriously though. I’m sure Scalia would very gladly sacrifice his one Republican vote to wipe out the entirety of the Voting Rights Act.
The Romans turned Sicily, which they had taken from the Carthaginians, into a giant slave plantation. This undoubtedly included sub-Saharan slaves incorrectly called Nubians y the populace. Why? Just look at a map. It’s a straight line South from Rome to Naples (Neapolis) to Sicily to the Sahara.
Just wanted to add that that is probably how I got this Y-chromosome hairy ear gene supposedly exclusive to West Africa, but over two thousand years, who really knows where I got the gene, but someone from West Africa enslaved and shipped to Rome seems probable. Maybe he got lucky in Sicily.
The man ought to remember what his father and grandfather must have told him; that in America in the early part of the 20th century Italians were considered the last white n***. They were lynched in several cities, just like blacks.