Friday,
November 03, 2006
DeSanctis
of Sons of
The
ANNOTICO Report
A half dozen years ago, None of the Major Italian American
Organizations, NIAF, OSIA, or UNICO were much interested in Italian American
Defamation.
Dona
DeSanctis was with NIAF at the time, and was
finally able to nudge the NIAF to become more actively involved. NIAF began
to do a commendable job, for being a newbie.
Then
DeSanctis moved to the Sons of Italy (OSIA)
as Deputy Director, and she was able to ultimately persuade the Sons of
Italy to take a more active and aggressive role, and
the efforts have been admirable.
Dr.
Manny Alfano has attempted to make UNICO more conscious of Italian
American Defamation, Slander, and Bigotry, with some success, but moreso with his group IAOV (Italian American One Voice).
Meanwhile
NIAF seems to have gone back to their self congratulatory
"networking" black tie dinners, and too infrequently weigh
in on Italian American Anti Defamation.
Below
is the third effort by OSIA's DeSanctis
within the last two weeks to make their Disapproval known, almost immediately, in
the strongest terms. This latest Objection is against a
The
other two events are the Italian slander vs
Celeste in the
Negative Italian Stereotypes.
The television ad
shows a group of older men with slick hair sitting around a poker table,
smoking cigars and toasting one another for persuading voters to allow more
gambling, tax increases and the protection of pregnant pigs. The Godfather-
style music plays in the background as the men laugh.
The group paying
for this ad, which supports passage of Amendment 3 on Tuesday, says it is
intended to warn voters that
But the nation's
oldest and largest Italian-American organization, the Order of Sons of Italy,
says the ad draws on recurring TV and movie images that portray Italian
Americans as mobsters. The group has demanded that the organization that paid
for the ad, Protect Our Constitution, which is run by an executive with the
Florida Chamber of Commerce, pull the ad and apologize publicly.
Dona De Sanctis, deputy executive director of the Order of Sons of
Italy, blasted the
De Sanctis said the ad shows that television
and film depictions of Italian Americans is bleeding into other aspects
of culture. She added that Protect Our Constitution should publicly apologize
to the more than one million Italian Americans in
Mark Wilson,
chairman of Protect Our Constitution, said the ad has already stopped running
in major media markets in
But
''We have had
nothing but positive reaction from a lot of folks, including some Italians,''
said
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