The Sopranos (TV Series)

Christopher (2002)

Joseph R. Sicari: Phillip Di Notti

Quotes 

• Montel Williams : [during his talk show]  welcome back, we're here with our guest Dr. Del Redclay, professor of anthropology at Rutgers university and spokesman for the anti-Columbus protest. Also, Mr. Phillip Di Notti who is the president of the Coalition of Italian American Anti-Defamation organization

  Professor Del Redclay : let's start with the "idea" of a parade for a genocidal colonial general, a national holiday no less, such festivities are deeply offensive to us

  Phillip Di Notti : these are pretty "broad" charges, all I know is Italian Americans are extremely proud of Christopher Columbus: admiral of the ocean seas and a great Italian

  Professor Del Redclay : you know very well the compromised position we put forth. Now, if your people want to make it an "Italian pride" parade, we have no problem with that

  Montel Williams : western history does say Columbus discovered America

  Professor Del Redclay : the same "America" that put "your people" in bondage for three centuries

  Montel Williams : but every culture has had to bear the pain in the making of what I think we can all agree is a starkly "economic miracle"

  Phillip Di Notti : he cured polio

  Montel Williams : I have to agree with Phill, the right to vote

  Phillip Di Notti : exactly. Take my grandparents: two simple people from Sicily, who braved the peril-less middle passage

  Montel Williams : [surprised]  "middle passage"? That's the term for the slave trade