Saturday,
December 01, 2007
The
ANNOTICO Report
Hopefully Giancarlo Marotta Sons
of Italy member is setting an example for ALL Lodges to send a similar Letter
to their Local paper.!!!!!!!
LettertoEditor
FromGiancarlo Marotta
Friday, November
30, 2007
NBC Television
Group is developing, for the 2008-2009 season, a drama about mob wives who take
over the family business, titled "Mafia
Wives" .
This letter is to
express our outrage for the work being done in scheduling future television
shows. Im writing not for just myself, but for a very
large number of very proud Italian- Americans.
The media are
constantly portraying Italians as gangsters. This has been going on for too
long and must stop once and for all.
Italians are good
people, but because of few bad apples, the entire ethnic group has to suffer.
The same exists with all races and nationalities, but the Italians are
subjected to much more, unfortunately with very little objections. Now is the
time to make our voices heard, loud and clear.
The following
statistics show what kind of influence this type of entertainment has in our
society, especially among young people.
A recent national
survey showed that 44 percent of U.S. teens cast Italian-Americans as a
"crime boss" or "gangster" and 46 percent of Italian-American
teens believed their heritage was portrayed accurately by the industry,
despite U.S. Justice Department data showing that 5,000 people are involved
in organized crime, which is composed of Chinese, Hispanic, Russian, Jews, as
well as Italian-Americans, among others.
Even if all 5,000
people were of Italian origin, it would constitute less than 1/100th of 1
percent of the estimated 26 million Americans of Italian descent.
At this time we
are asking anyone who cares about Social Justice (Italian or non-Italian)
to join us in disapproving another series focused on the negatives and
denigrating and stereotyping of Italian-Americans.
Enough is enough.
Giancarlo Marotta; Chairman, Social Justice; Port St. Lucie Sons of
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