Red, white and green

So this is pretty random, but it's occurred to me that black people and Italian people have a lot in common.

We both can have nappy hair, we both love to eat and have family dinners. They have "Big Mamas" just like we do, referring to matriarchal figures, here. They can be loud and boisterous and we know they don't really play no games - all about the paper, all aobut their business, don't take the bull.

We're about the same. And it's notable that the tip of Italy is veryyy close to Africa.

I'm covering a town where there's a large concentration of Italian-Americans, so these observations recently struck me. But of course, we could draw parallels to just about every ethnic group.