We Have All Been the Others

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The lessons that former history teacher Patricia J. Marino learned from her Sicilian-American father Detective Alexander Francis Marino are universal and applicable to our current American landscape: Laws don't always equal right Call out hypocrisy and Keep your commitments among others. In this unique memoir-through-a-larger-American-historical-lens with relatable appeal to anyone whose family came to America from elsewhere (i.e. almost all of us) the author takes a loving yet clear-eyed look at what we're doing wrong in light of the original promise of the Bill of Rights the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution and how we can set things right so as to-in the words of Langston Hughes-let America be America again. Includes an invitation to readers to participate in revisioning a new America.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Lesson 1: A Portrait of Dirty Harry - LAWS DON'T ALWAYS EQUAL RIGHT</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Lesson 2: Alex and Sinatra - CALL OUT HYPOCRISY</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Lesson 3: Alex and Sinatra - MIXING WITH THE MOB IS A DEATH KNELL</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Lesson 4: Alex - STRIVE TO LEARN TOUGHNESS THROUGH ADVERSITY</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Lesson 5: Alex and LBJ - KEEP YOUR COMMITMENTS</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Lesson 6: Alex the Detective - BRING FAIRNESS TO THE PROBLEM - EQUALITY IS THE GOLD STANDARD</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Lesson 7: Alex and World War II at Home and Abroad - SEE THE HUMAN IN THE STEREOTYPE</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Lesson 8: Alex's Family DNA - LOVE AS THE YEAST FOR GROWTH - CAN FOOD AND LOVE BRIDGE ASSIMILATION?</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Lesson #9: Those Who Came Before - THE OTHER IS </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>YOU</em></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Lesson #10: Alex and the Church - SPEAK TRUTH TO POWER</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Lesson #11: Our Collective Immigrant Experience - FACE YOUR FEARS AND YOUR TRUTH</span></p><p class=ql-align-center></p>