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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani
@mayor.nyc.gov

Last week, we celebrated Eastern European heritage at Gracie Mansion, because the story of New York City cannot be told without the story of our Eastern European neighbors.

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historynerd62.bsky.social
@historynerd62.bsky.social

My father at the Roosevelt Hotel on 45th St in 1952 on his first night in America after spending six years in a Displaced Persons Camp in Southern Germany after he and his family were expelled from Hungary in 1946.

Colleen
@wildplumbay.bsky.social

I love reading about heritage celebrations and not about religious rituals. The less religion in politics the better. Marginalize those fairy stories.

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani
@mayor.nyc.gov

New Yorkers experience the abundant contributions of our Eastern European neighbors every day. As we pair syrniki with sour cream in Brighton Beach, look in wonder at a Chagall painting at MoMA and banter with babushkas in Rego Park.

Craig Sheldon
@crgshldn.bsky.social

But you just couldn't bring yourself to celebrate the Israeli Day Parade with Jewish New Yorkers or the Columbus Day Parade with Italian American New Yorkers. Less slicing and dicing NYers by your political views, and more standing with your constituents please

Rodel Ituralde
@rodel-ituralde.bsky.social

Why in the world would one celebrate that genocidal state that was born through ethnic cleansing, murder, and destruction, and is perpetuated via apartheid, genocide, and more murder?

Thomas Edwards
@mpeg2tom.bsky.social

My great-grandmother, Anna Vitoch, came to New York from what is now Czechia in 1912. She was a house maid. Her children included doctors and a grandchild a research biologist. Czechs were considered by the racists of the time “undesirable immigrants”, “criminals”, “paupers”, “papists”.

Thomas Edwards
@mpeg2tom.bsky.social

"The Atlantic" June 1896 article shows the racism Eastern European immigrants faced...https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1896/06/restriction-of-immigration/306011/

Thomas Edwards
@mpeg2tom.bsky.social

"Only a short time ago, the immigrants from southern Italy, Hungary, Austria, and Russia together made up hardly more than one per cent of our immigration. To-day the proportion has risen to something like forty per cent, and threatens soon to become fifty or sixty per cent, or even more."

Thomas Edwards
@mpeg2tom.bsky.social

"The entrance into our political, social, and industrial life of such vast masses of peasantry, degraded below our utmost conceptions, is a matter which no intelligent patriot can look upon without the gravest apprehension and alarm."

Thomas Edwards
@mpeg2tom.bsky.social

American racists didn't like the Poles either...this is from U.S. House of Representatives Committee report 66-1109 (1920) "Temporary Suspension of Immigration" (stuff like this is what drove numerical limits on immigration starting in 1921)

Demblu🩵🕊ThankYouJoe Biden
@phranklindb.bsky.social

Remember when Mamdani omitted the Italians on his cool map? "New York City Immigrant Enclaves", which showed 30 immigrant communities across the city with numbered flags across the five boroughs. Those liste, Koreatown in Manhattan, Little Pakistan in Brooklyn and Little Yemen in the Bronx 1/2

Demblu🩵🕊ThankYouJoe Biden
@phranklindb.bsky.social

2/2 ..critics quickly noticed that *Little Italy, the historic Lower Manhattan district that gave rise to many of the city's "Little" neighbourhoods, was absent. Italian caucus accused Mamdani of "erasing" Italian-Americans, calling the map "incomplete at best and insulting at worst".. -NY Post

Demblu🩵🕊ThankYouJoe Biden
@phranklindb.bsky.social

Oh the Italian community DID bring it to his attention alright. 5he insult was made loud & clear. They got an apology on the back page. It was someone elses fault! Tho he'd proudly glazed himself for his PR skills. *He'd signed off on the fking map.

Demblu🩵🕊ThankYouJoe Biden
@phranklindb.bsky.social

REALLY? HOW'D THEY GET THERE? Who tfk is this guy who decides which 'immigrants' are selected as worthy for his fking map & who are simply erased? OH BTW . "Other communities missed off the map included *Brooklyn's Borough Park, one of the largest Orthodox Jewish communities outside Israel."