We note the passing of Mario Cuomo, who was a proud Italian American who embodied the larger story of America. Here's an excerpt featuring him in the upcoming PBS series Italian Americans, which premieres in February.
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@carolbenson65245 жыл бұрын
So proud of my Italian heritage!
@kingkillerstripe44673 жыл бұрын
Your Surname is Benson how Italian are you really?
@carolbenson65243 жыл бұрын
@@kingkillerstripe4467 I am one quarter polish..one quarter Sicilian...and the other have is Italian from the Abruzzo region. (Benson was my married name that I decided to keep after my divorce in 1982 for my children. So there!!
@kingkillerstripe44673 жыл бұрын
@@carolbenson6524 OK fair enough not that bad I stand corrected
@itsmeandrea1383 жыл бұрын
@@carolbenson6524 Ehm... Sicily is in Italy
@tristezzalamentoluciano2653 жыл бұрын
Me too!
@mr.m1garand2544 жыл бұрын
Grandpa arrived in the 1920s, and my last name is Rossi. I'm proud of my heritage and my heritage is very much why I have certain traits (like being loud XD) thank you grandpa and all the hard work of many italian Americans to help build the country despite struggle🇮🇹🇺🇸
@madsskipper94086 жыл бұрын
That 1984 speech still gives me chills - and I’m not even American!
@fixit84923 жыл бұрын
Same here, great symphatetic voice, sense of humor, humbledness, and I gotta love it for I grew up learning English watching everybody loves Raymond
@mr.afrikaans17472 жыл бұрын
True, true.
@Sergio-fu7mv6 жыл бұрын
This man’s an inspiration. I feel, just now Mexicans are coming to a point where the real Mexicans are being shown. The hard workers, the family men. It’s a relief there will be an end point, for the most part.
@delgi95515 жыл бұрын
I hope this video is an eye opener for so many Italian Americans (my people) to realize that they once were "the foriengers" with criminal stereotypes despite the fact that soooo many were family men and hard workers and it took decades to try to change that. They went through what so many Mexican Americans feel they are going through now. We need to find similarities, not differences.
@gregDino325 жыл бұрын
@@delgi9551 Im salvadorian but this applies to me as well.
@gregDino325 жыл бұрын
@@delgi9551 I've also always admired italian culture because its similar to ours , I usually understand italian, I'm actually trying to learn .I know spanish already , so might as well learn a third or fourth language.
@delgi95515 жыл бұрын
@@gregDino32 yes a Latin culture and language. Very similar to ours. Very much so. It's because of the core Latin base due to Spain and Italy.
@itsmeandrea1383 жыл бұрын
@@delgi9551 The Irish people too
@jop76724 жыл бұрын
Prayers for the beautiful people of Italy. Our hearts are broken in unity for the loss of Italian life.
@domenicoscarpa6703 жыл бұрын
😚😘😘😘😘😘🥰🙄🤫🙏
@LymanPhillips2 жыл бұрын
This is one of my favorite "American Experience" series I have ever seen. This is how documentaries should be done.
@chanpolylun20754 жыл бұрын
My English teacher is also an Italian American. He's from Connecticut, New Haven.
@marjoriedondiego5294 жыл бұрын
Until now I didn’t realized that clump family is very strong, intelligent, and kind. Very impressed about the father Mr. Mario Coumo was very successful politician because he is talking from his heart and to all poor people and immigrants like his parents. It doesn’t matter what color you came from. He is the most intelligent person I ever heard his messages. Always people pay attention because his speech is very thoughtful and show his dignity not for money but to help others and have a better life. ❤️
@Aalliiiq3 жыл бұрын
Their will, courage and bravery fighting in Normandy then only to be discriminated against. They do deserve to be in leadership roles as they are more American than Italian.
@gracecheri9976 жыл бұрын
Less than 2 percent of Italian Americans are connected to the mob but that Goomba Image is constantly promulgated in films, tv shows and commercials. Sadly, this stigma holds them back significantly . Ivy League schools throughout the entire country only accept 8 percent despite their academic image. Thats not bias?
@planetclownfishbrain70525 жыл бұрын
Look and see who perpetuated this stereotype and you'll also find it was the same group that controlled organized crime, media, banking, films, etc...
@grantomalley85325 жыл бұрын
Seriously, I am half Irish and half Italian. My great grand parents came her in the late 1800's. Get over it already. We have been here for over 120 years.
@josephroberts83444 жыл бұрын
I went to Italy recently and I’m not white. One of the most trash racist countries I’ve ever been to. No one should be discriminated against, but how about treating your visitors with the same kind of respect you are demanding.
@RealPolitik-dy4it4 жыл бұрын
Same with us Russians. We still get sterotyped as spies and criminals. But that doesn't stop us from succeeding in america.
@TheSpynerd4 жыл бұрын
@@josephroberts8344 go to southern italy. I'm pretty sure you've been in the north
@delgi95515 жыл бұрын
I would really love for certain minorities to watch this and realize that it wasn't even until 1986 that an Italian-American was appointed to a position of white collared power. That's how slow it takes for this country to accept "others." There was also systemic oppression against specifically Italian-americans. There was thought that they would never be able to take a position like that and it was almost impossible just like people thought it was impossible that this country would ever see an African American president but Obama did it.
@gregDino325 жыл бұрын
Italian American discrimination still exists but it's just subtle and mostly said by people on the internet because alot of italians will put racists in their place .They say things like oh they all look hispanic ,arab or jewish and they are criminals.
@gregDino325 жыл бұрын
You're right though things are changing slowly though.
@fantastic12314 жыл бұрын
Gianna would you please explain to me as to why Italian Americans were discriminated against given that Italians are also white people at least? I'm just curious about it! Thanks!
@forestevans54533 жыл бұрын
AveryCharles Dewey I’m so ashamed of only being half
@MrRed-tf7bv3 жыл бұрын
I dont believe that, ltalian Americans were ALWAYS considered white people.
@ROMAMITICA4 ай бұрын
favoloso
@KenDrPH4 жыл бұрын
Forza Italia!!!! 💪🏻
@أحمدالصاعدي-ك3ل6 жыл бұрын
mario cuomo is the most thoughtful,intellectual,philosopher politician that ever existed.
@vinista2565 жыл бұрын
Up there with Adlai Stevenson--and, unfortunately, he proved that thoughtful, intellectual, philosophical types don't win elections 😐
@domenicoscarpa6703 жыл бұрын
😘😘😘😘😘😘🙄🙏🤫
@أحمدالصاعدي-ك3ل2 жыл бұрын
@@vinista256 it's a cruel world.people don't like decency anymore.people like him and Ralph nader,have no chance among thieves.maybe we don't deserve such individuals.at least people like them, sleep well in the evening with their conscious in comfort.
@GuonMr Жыл бұрын
I am a lst generation Italian & I am proud of it. But I hate to see Pelosi being one of us; even Italian could have "bad apples."
@anthonytriolo3643 Жыл бұрын
Her father was what Italians call” di mezzo lato.”
@erinwalker7117 ай бұрын
This is why we love ❤️ the Italian Americans 🇮🇹! Bellisima!
@guidodemaio76325 жыл бұрын
Most parents want it better for their kids, then they had.
@thunderbay88883 жыл бұрын
Got respect for Mario, but no respect for his 2 boys.
@domenicoscarpa6703 жыл бұрын
🤫propaganda ok
@dorisc86044 жыл бұрын
He was really smart he didn't want to be another Kennedy in the hands of the mafia! I understand and I applaud that no body is going to buy him! The mafia was very strong in that era.
@delgi95515 жыл бұрын
Oh and just to clarify they had been in the country already for almost a century.
@mwendapoleee4 жыл бұрын
It was a long rough road it was a longtime coming.
@williamrunner67184 жыл бұрын
Scalia! The greatest U.S. Supreme Court Justice of all time!
@domenicoscarpa6703 жыл бұрын
😘😘😘😘😘😘😘🙄🤫🙏
@genevievebahrenburg2 жыл бұрын
I am a huge fan of Mario! I am very eager to hear Chris and Andrew talking together about their father. I suggest they follow what he did for 92Y. I think they should start the Tale of Two cities or Excelsior podcast on him. Chris already has a podcast so Andrew can start his own podcast with his father.
@MikeCee7 Жыл бұрын
There have been Italian, American mayors of New York City, the biggest city in America, way before Cuomo, governor of New York friend, for instance everyone’s heard of Mayor LaGuardia.
@vincentspassero-noska81274 жыл бұрын
I don’t understand why United States politics focuses SO much on race and nationality. I hope that changes soon causes even in 2020 not much has changed
@foxfly23723 жыл бұрын
RIP Antonin Scalia - - great American patriot hero.
@tripjet9999 жыл бұрын
Sadly, Ferraro sold out to the criminal tobacco pushers.
@genevievebahrenburg99562 жыл бұрын
Andrew and Mario Cuomo two natural leaders. I want to hear Andrew talk about his father’s Tale of Two Cities speech. I support Andrew and america needs to stop giving him so many hits right now- he has a lot on his plate but he isn’t running for gov. I am huge fan of Hochul and they both have my support. I pray seeing them work together on a project to take down trumpoply would help america. I am an democrats and democrats needs to UNITE and back BIDEN
@lucianomezzetta433211 ай бұрын
You are part of the problem. You are not part of the solution. You are such because you do not see how the woke Democrat party has used you and is using you now. Biden gives jack about us.
@jkakurinpoche14064 жыл бұрын
!!!!! CUOMO for President !!!!!
@The1ByTheSea2 ай бұрын
They laugh ,but little do people talk about Italians in the Southern USA.People do not know there were many in New Orleans;many Italians worked making cigars in Ybor City in Tampa;they even had an Italian -American club ;apart from The South ,many Italians settled in California
@anthonytriolo3643 Жыл бұрын
The mother of President J Kennedy Fitzgerald .Fitzgerald was an Italian merchant his real name was Digeraldo or Geraldino.He found out he could not make in this country as an Italian.
@carmelaguzman77142 ай бұрын
Huh? *His?* And the Kennedys and Fitzgerald's were rich Irish Catholics.
@The1ByTheSea2 ай бұрын
Another prominent Italian -American Californiano film director family is Francis Coppola
@MikeCee7 Жыл бұрын
If you would of ask me back in 1988, if we will have Italian-American president before a African-American president. Most would of said “of course” - We’ve had Italian American mayors of New York City (largest city in America) way before Mario Cuomo was governor on NY. For example everyone knows of Mayor La Guardia.
@The1ByTheSea2 ай бұрын
Ron DiSantis:Governor of Florida
@michellealexsandriagiangra9355 жыл бұрын
THERE IS A BOOK WHEN ITILANS WERE BLACK IN AMERICA
@scepticsquirrel4 жыл бұрын
@@italianoetnico.calabreseve9262 No, because it wasn't a historical (not because Southern Italians were poorer or they had some Arab blood in veins) but a cultural-religious discrimination. For example Italians, the Irish and Mexicans were for some decades were recorded in censuses as racially others because they were Catholics, American-borns pushed for this fresh-arriveds' exclusion from public life. Protestant Americans of Dutch,German and British descent feared the "Papists" and future Catholic majorities in big cities.
@thenatureremedy_3 жыл бұрын
@Spotek hard to generalise though, couldn’t some have Arabic Origins?Italy only unified in 1861. I’m from southern Italy, 100 percent, but when I did genetic testing, I came up 40% non Italian. It came up as 20% Greek and 20% Turkish/Armenian. My grandma came up 3 percent East African. So unless everyone is tested we really don’t know.
@thenatureremedy_3 жыл бұрын
@Spotek I’m not saying everyone is descended from Arabs but a few people could have intermingled. For example, where I’m from, there was an Emirate there (in Bari) in the 7th century, not for long but it existed. Also there was an emirate in Sicily for a few hundred years around the same time. Lots of Arab influences in Sicily if you visit. Don’t believe me, you can Google it. :)
@WolfOfLosAngeles3 жыл бұрын
My mom and dad and even great great grandmother was filed as white on their birth certificate and they are Mexicans born in the United States.
@salscandura60592 жыл бұрын
@@thenatureremedy_ My surname is apparently of Arab origin, my grandfather having come from the Catania province. I only discovered the origin two years ago.
@DMH-bt2zo3 жыл бұрын
It’s a shame that one of these Italian-Americans severely disgraced himself recently…
@domenicoscarpa6703 жыл бұрын
🤫women propaganda bich
@The1ByTheSea2 ай бұрын
I hope one day Hispanics raise to political power.Hispanis in strong Hispanic areas ,are underrepresented . Big companies have to give back to endower Hispanincs ,who their big clients .Hispanic compan ies like Goya give back to Hispanic comminties;but all shouldMcDOnalds,etc .
@fantastic12314 жыл бұрын
Can anyone explain to me as to why Italian Americans were discriminated?
@jo-vf8jx4 жыл бұрын
fantastic1231 Honestly, it would be better to look it up then to have someone give different explanations as to why.
@user-zy9yg2eu5t4 жыл бұрын
1.) They have darker skin 2.) They are catholic 3.) They had a stigma for organised crime 4.) They have latino names 5.) They have latino culture
@ami62723 жыл бұрын
@@user-zy9yg2eu5t I want to warn you that your definition of Latino is completely off from the real definition of Latino.
@cfclazio6213 жыл бұрын
@@user-zy9yg2eu5t so stereo type ! italians can be dark haired < ginger , blonde you get very pale skinned italians because we are european people[white people] but you pick up on some that were slightly darker wow what a dummy !!!!!!
@user-zy9yg2eu5t3 жыл бұрын
@@cfclazio621 If a Tunisian and a Norweigan walked through ab Italian town together, the Norwegian would be the obvious foreigner
@The1ByTheSea2 ай бұрын
Rudy Guliani
@ednan99 жыл бұрын
so most presidents come from Anglo background with Kennedy being Irish and now Obama being African American. Cool.
@delgi95515 жыл бұрын
Ya know Anglo means the Northern European stock, predomintantly the UK. Anglo comes from Germanic or English speaking peoples.
@gregDino325 жыл бұрын
@@delgi9551 yes only english are anglo.
@gregDino325 жыл бұрын
Dude join the club , us latinos and asians havnt had one either.
@redcomic6193 жыл бұрын
The WASPs are Freemasons. This explains a lot of it.
@richardtrubiano70458 ай бұрын
Scalia 👍👍👍
@dobbynp8 ай бұрын
Greatest Italians ever were Milli Vanilli
@jimfesta8981 Жыл бұрын
So, why all this fuss over Mario Cuomo breaking the barrier into New York politics? It seems you may have forgotten Mayor La Guardia.
@Bob-m6u14 күн бұрын
Either you are italian or american, but not both.
@sudipbhaumik7905 Жыл бұрын
I used to thought that america does always embrace white Europeans of any nationality.
@lucianomezzetta433211 ай бұрын
try "think, get rid of "does'," change "embrace" to "embraces" and you have an English sentence. If you want to have people read you learn grammar.
@tpsu129 Жыл бұрын
PBS…your bias is showing, again.
@basilmanolakos4926 Жыл бұрын
Mario Cuomo may have been a source of pride but was a lousy governor of NY and therefore was defeated for a 4th term.
@catherinegrimm52673 жыл бұрын
I wish Mario Cuomo had run for President, as I wish Andrew Cuomo would run also.
@rockyracoon32333 жыл бұрын
Andrew Cuomo is politically dead.
@domenicoscarpa6703 жыл бұрын
Puttane propagand ok
@jmf52462 жыл бұрын
The democratic party left Italian Americans years ago. Once they went full woke the party drove Italians out pushing cultural marxism and antiwhite” ideology
@renegade97772 жыл бұрын
The Northeast is a Democratic stronghold, snowflake!
@lucianomezzetta433211 ай бұрын
100% right on.
@anthonywilliams6746 Жыл бұрын
Sure, didn't stop a Black for being Black though did it
@gibememoni Жыл бұрын
italians are black
@lucadipietro614 жыл бұрын
They're not Italians
@giulianaggar15564 жыл бұрын
Luca Di Pietro what do you mean?
@rationalbeing49284 жыл бұрын
@@giulianaggar1556 the Americans
@TheSpynerd4 жыл бұрын
They're more proud italians than you ever will be. They are the REAL Italians.
@ggboy49483 жыл бұрын
@@TheSpynerd nope real italians can speak italian
@cfclazio6213 жыл бұрын
@@ggboy4948 so can anyone who goes to italian school so your point ?
@domenicoscarpa6703 жыл бұрын
American pipol is not cattolik
@lucianomezzetta433211 ай бұрын
You flunked spelling, right?
@momogabagool77203 жыл бұрын
The cuomo brothers area DISGRACE !!!
@domenicoscarpa6703 жыл бұрын
Puttane propaganda ok
@pennywiser96073 жыл бұрын
Why is no one reporting his mob ties to the five families? Bonnano Colombo Gambino Genovese Lucchese