bnapl@burdvax.UUCP (Tom Albrecht) (10/22/84)
>> = me > = rdz@ccice5.UUCP (Robert D. Zarcone) >> [ Italian-Americans for Reagan ] > [With a name like Albrecht, I doubt that very much!] Maybe I should have used my mother's maiden name when I posted this note. >Please keep your racial slurs to yourself. Thank you. I believe you meant ethnic rather than racial in that last sentence. No matter, it wasn't intended as a slur anyway. What I intended to do in that note was to show (humorously) how a small segment of individuals who are not at all representative of the larger group can gain all the (negative) publicity. Italians have always been considered part of the "mob" even though organized crime figures represent an insignificant number of Italian- Americans. Does the IRA represent all Irishmen or does Louis Farrakan speak for all blacks? These groups in no way speak for the whole and we should repudiate both their words and their actions. John Zaccaro and his associates in organized crime have hurt all Italian-Americans in there search for equality and freedom. BTW, the Philadelphia Inquirer (Sunday, 10/21) did a two page spread on Zaccaro and his friends in the Mob. -- Tom Albrecht Burroughs Corp. ...{presby|psuvax|sdcrdcf}!burdvax!bnapl