Retired " Dancing Cop ", Tony Lepore, must know about discrimination against Italian Americans

Riots on Federal Hill 100 years ago, by Scott Molloy

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Retired cop Tony Lepore

•   A nice enough guy and a gifted street entertainer, " The Dancing Cop ", Tony Lepore, goofed in public relations skills. He set up a dichotomy between showing ordinary respect for police officers and the feelings of working class black people expressed by the " Black Lives Matter " chant.But punitive " political correctness " will not improve race relations in this country. It is the rather privileged black bourgeoisie who keep seeing malignant racism everywhere- and then search out rather innocuous individuals -like Tony Lepore- for the pillory of public condemnation. And the black bourgeoisie are only appeased by ever more pandering to the black bourgeoisie. The Obama years have been a golden age for them - but not for working class blacks like that young woman employee at that Dunkin Donuts in Federal Hill , Providence.
• Coming from an Italian American background , retired cop Tony Lepore must know about discrimination against Italian Americans in the not so distant past. Not for nothing there were active Italian-American anarchists on Federal Hill . Recall the Sacco and Vanzetti story ? Most Italian Americans are empathetic to ALL victims of social injustice.
  The notion that it is psychologically healthy for people to repress both thoughts and feelings, never say what they really feel, never say what they really think , is truly Orwellian thought control.
  The so called Left should take the lead in supporting free speech and rejecting the undemocratic notion of THOUGHT CRIME.
  TRUTH never harmed any truly progressive cause. And yes, BLACK LIVES MATTER !

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  In those days there were very organized anarchists on Federal Hill