That’s who the White House appears to quote in a statement regarding its plans to install a statue of Christopher Columbus on White House grounds.
“In this White House, Christopher Columbus is a hero,” spokesman Davis Ingle says in a statement addressing rumors of the statue. “And he will continue to be honored as such by President Trump.”
It’s a declaration that appears to pay homage to an episode of HBO’s The Sopranos that aired in 2002.
In the season four episode, “Christopher,” mob don and family man Tony (James Gandolfini) gets into a breakfast table confrontation with son A.J. (Robert Iler) after A.J. points out that his textbook reframes the venerated Italian explorer as a brutal colonizer who enslaved and slaughtered indigenous people.
Responding with Italian-American passion and pride,…
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