Chris Cuomo apologized for equating the term 'Fredo' with black people being called the 'N-word.' But he was participating in a broader trend plaguing modern America, writes zakcheneyrice
CNN anchor Chris Cuomo. Photo: Lloyd Bishop/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images Fredo Corleone, as depicted in Francis Ford Coppola’s Godfather films, is incompetent, envious, and ultimately traitorous with fatal results.
Where Cuomo truly got derailed was in his claim that “Fredo” is “like the ‘N-word’ for us [Italian-Americans].” It’s worth noting up front that few words are actually like “n- - - - -.” Its etymology traces to when it was used to categorize enslaved black people and later expanded in its derogatory implications when racists maintained it as a pejorative after less-coarse terminology — “colored,” “Afro-American,” “black” — came into fashion.
But Chris Cuomo, who has since apologized for the analogy, was participating in a broader trend plaguing modern America. It’s become somewhat common for white people who face personal injury to liken their degree of insult to black people being called “n- - - - -s.
Cuomo and LePage aren’t interchangeable in this regard, but both suffer from a mix of rhetorical carelessness, historical ignorance, and an inability to distinguish the wages of broad inequality from those of personal insult. These traits aren’t distributed equally between them; Cuomo at least has a cultural history of anti-Italian prejudice informing his outlook.
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