Liberals have created a special set of rules for themselves that absolves them of any sort of racism so it’s allowable that New York governor Andrew Cuomo said the N-word on a recent radio interview. It’s simply not a big deal for a democrat to drop N-bombs while it would be a hate crime against the world if a Republican did the same exact thing. What makes this newsworthy is that Cuomo believes the New York Times specifically called him the N-word. This is a story of paranoid delusions more than liberal racism.
Cuomo did an interview with WMAC. The discussion was about how Cuomo was cooking the books and delaying Medicare payments so they’d show up in the next fiscal year. First, there was this hilarious observation from the interviewer:
“Well, if the [New York Times] said it’s so it must be so, right?” asked the interviewer.
Even Cuomo doesn’t think the NYT has a solid reputation for truthfulness and told this odd story to prove his point:
“[The] Times also said in an article the other day, apropos of nothing, they were talking about — going back to the Italian-Americans because you now have me,” started Cuomo.
Cuomo is referring to this NYT article about how Italian immigrants were once vilified but found a way to be accepted in America. It’s not about Andrew Cuomo, but he thinks it is:
“They used an expression that the Southern Italians were called, I believe they were saying Southern Italians, Sicilians — I’m half-Sicilian — were called, quote-unquote and pardon my language, but I’m just quoting the Times, ‘nigger wops.’ N-word wops, as a derogatory comment,” Cuomo said.
Again, this NYT article is not about Cuomo, but he actually complained to the paper for using derogatory words against him.
“When I said that Wop was a derogatory comment, that when Times Union told me no, ‘you should look in Wikipedia, Wop really meant a dandy.’ I’m sure that’s what they were saying to me back in Queens. ‘You’re a dandy,’ when they looked at me with scorn and they gave me the hair gesture and called me a wop. So that’s the New York Times,’ finished Cuomo.
Granted, Cuomo isn’t the most articulate speaker but what he’s trying to say is that growing up in Queens he was the victim of racism for being half-Sicilian and that the New York Times was bringing up that pain by calling him the N-word directly. Yeah, he’s nuts.
Here’s the actual article he’s talking about:
And here’s the passage he referred to:
Racist dogma about Southern Italians found fertile soil in the United States. As the historian Jennifer Guglielmo writes, the newcomers encountered waves of books, magazines and newspapers that “bombarded Americans with images of Italians as racially suspect.” They were sometimes shut out of schools, movie houses and labor unions, or consigned to church pews set aside for black people. They were described in the press as “swarthy,” “kinky haired” members of a criminal race and derided in the streets with epithets like “dago,” “guinea” — a term of derision applied to enslaved Africans and their descendants — and more familiarly racist insults like “white nigger” and “nigger wop.”
The basic premise of the article is that Southern Italians were discriminated when they first came to America but were able to overcome the prejudice. It does not mention Andrew Cuomo by name or even hint at his existence.
The article also doesn’t say Southern Italians or Sicilians are these derogatory terms, just that they were used against them back in the day. Andrew Cuomo has to be pretty full of himself to think this NYT article was taking a shot at him personally. Either that or he’s completely delusional. I guess it could be both.
The Cuomo family has a real problem with this manufactured victimhood. Andrew’s brother and CNN stooge Chris Cuomo thinks that calling him “fake news” and “Fredo” are the same things as using the N-word on him. They both so desperately want to be a part of the victim-class, which is another thing that would be racist if a conservative did it.
