Except they aren't. Lots of descendants of Irish, Italian and Eastern Europeans on display.
Listen to them and you would think Immigrants in 1920s New York were model citizens who only worked hard, took care of their families and never got in any trouble. The reality is of course very different but once people become part of the mainstream they tend to reinterpret their own history.
"It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men" - Frederick Douglass
"Good things come out of the garrisons" after his daughter won the 100m Gold For Jamaica.
"It therefore is useless and pointless, unless it is for share malice and victimisation to arrest and charge a 92-year-old man for such a simple offence. There is nothing morally wrong with this man smoking a spliff; the only thing wrong is that it is still on the law books," said Chevannes.
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