Now my own people are doing it!!!

So Supreme Court Justice Alioto is pissed off at the Sopranos. Says it "shows Italians in a bad light". Really Justice Alioto? You mean the Costa Nostra never existed???? You mean Italian Family Gatherings are not loud??? Aye Marone.....give me a break Dude. There's a group I used to support called the "Sons of Italy" because my deceased Grandfather was a member. That is used to support until I got their literature basically pushing for Italians to have "minority" status. Sorry guys; DO NOT WANT!!! To make a movie about Italians and make it interesting you have to put in the Mafia angle. Sorry; no one wants to see a movie about poor Italians coming to America and digging ditches or working the docks. Besides, most of the Italians that worked those jobs were working for the Mafia anyway (who do you think got them the jobs??) We Italians have existed under the Radar so to speak by not asking for special compensation because of our race. We don't demand that ATMs and packaging be written in Italian. We don't even care that Colombus Day is basically a throwaway Holiday that no one really cares about. Italians have made their own way in the world by their own merits....not because someone had to hire "x number of Italians" because not doing so would be discrimination. I know my Ancestors in Sicily were a little of both. Working Man and Mafia Man. Mostly Fishermen but there were those that worked for the Mob.....heck both of my Great Grandfather's on my Mother's side were Dons......and that wasn't their first name either. The reason so many worked directly and indirectly for the Mob was that as immigrants they were the "Mexican's" of the 30's along with the Irish. Back in the 30's it was common to hear "those damn Wops and Micks come to this Country and take all of our jobs...". Sound familiar? Just insert disparaging term for Mexican in place of Wops and Micks and you have today's chant. Unlike a good portion of the Mexican immigrants today, the Italians and Irish were here legally. No paying smugglers to help them cross the border then having to work like slaves to pay it off. No, my Ancestors had to work off their passage with manual labor....or like my Great Grandmother an arranged marriage to an older American. She of course said to Hell with that and ended up marrying a nice Sicilian boy she met on the ship. The American was dead by the time she got here so it was easier for them to get by. The contract was null and void, but her papers were in order. The Soprano's doesn't put Italians in a bad light.....just like the Shield doesn't put all Cops in a bad light or the Wire put African-Americans in a bad light. Sterotypes exist because they contain a smidgeon of truth. Ever meet a New York Italian? Yes, they grab their crotches alot and talk just like they are potrayed in the movies. We're talking streetwise Dudes....... my Uncle (the one that is dead to us.....) is alot like that. He's a wheeler and a dealer....dresses like Christopher from the Sopranos....acts like him too, wears the pinkie ring, the gold chains......c'mon......bad light??? Please. I know these sterotypical Italians....I'm related to a few of them.