Deep dive tk, but here is the 1910 census showing Kelly's great-grandfather Giuseppe Pedalino and his second wife Concetta. (Kelly's great-grandma died in 1898.)
He was a wagon driver.
She was illiterate and could not speak English 10 years after arrival. #resistancegenealogy
Here's John Kelly's maternal grandmother Teresa as a child in the 1900 census.
Her father, a day laborer named John DeMarco had been here for 18 years.
He had not become a citizen.
He could not read, write, or speak English. #resistancegenealogy
John DeMarco is apparently the fruit-peddler Kelly was referencing. That's how he's identified in the 1930 census.
I need to pause and give credit and thanks to @Yokumbrook, the genealogist who did the legwork on John Kelly's tree.
The 1930 census shows those great-grandparents living with their daughter, son-in-law and grandchildren, one of whom was Kelly's mother.
John DeMarco had been here for 47 years and was not an American citizen ("AL"). Crescenza had been here for 37 years and spoke no English.
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So yes, sending people gruesome beheading videos is decidedly not ok. (How does she know it was a Democrat, though?)
But it's puzzling how people like this didn't seem to mind when a woman was *actually murdered* and their President called her murderers "very fine people." 🤔
And I know this is essentially reverse whataboutism, but it's what infuriates me over and over:
The right always seems to draw the first blood, pretend they didn't, and then feign outrage when they provoke a reaction.
You guys should see the nasty shit people send me.
I'd like to share the story of a Rosh Hashana miracle.
For two years -- TWO YEARS --I have repeatedly complained to @Xfinity that I was being charged for On Demand movies we didn't order. Including when we weren't home.
Many, but not all of them of the, um, adult variety.
Every time it happened I would call and complain.
And the customer service rep would insist that the movie had in fact been ordered and watched in my home.
And I would know that it had definitely not.
Yesterday it happened again.
Two kids movies that we never ordered.
This time a @comcastcares rep named Matt actually took the time to look up which cable box the movies were ordered on. It was a box, he said, labeled “Den2.”
"I'm a historian" Twitter is almost as good as "I wrote the article" Twitter. 😂
Saaaad. He blocked me. But not before I could see that he a) deleted his tweet and b) tried another tack, this time claiming a photo from a police funeral in WI was the Democrats protesting Coolidge's inauguration. #itneverends
These people traffic in anti-immigrant stereotypes and propaganda. In myths meant to demonize.
But the unvarnished FACTS of the historical record show that we are indeed a #nationofimmigrants, including those now shouting loudest to close the door. #resistancegenealogy
This story is about his mom's family, but don't forget that Stephen Miller's paternal ancestor failed his citizenship test.
The point is not to shame anyone, but rather to engender compassion for contemporary immigrants as we would hope it would have been extended to ours.