Zohran Mamdani to skip Columbus parade – Source: Getty
The Italian American Civil Rights League shared a statement responding to Zohran Mamdani’s rejection of an invitation to the Columbus Day Parade. In an X post shared on October 11, the group slammed Mamdani’s latest video (@NYCMayor) celebrating Italian Heritage Month and wrote in the caption,
“Mayor Zohran Mamdani has REJECTED an invite (that should have never been offered) to march in the Columbus Day Parade tomorrow.”
In the X post, the group said Mamdani “conspicuously” avoided talking about Christopher Columbus, “the very figure at the center of this month’s most significant Italian American celebration.” IACRL president Mike Crispi said in the statement that Mamdani has never “apologized” for showing the “middle finger” to a Christopher Columbus statue in Astoria, Queens. The comment appears linked to an alleged 2020 photo of Mamdani, according to The New York Post, in which he asked for the statue to be taken down.
Crispi said in the statement shared on X:
“Zohran Mamdani can produce a hundred videos praising Italian Americans, but until he acknowledges the disrespect he has shown our community and apologizes, his words are meaningless.”
Additionally, Crispi said that the Columbus Citizens Foundation should have anticipated the rejection of the invite and said that Mamdani owes an “apology.”…