Thoughts on Chris Cuomo REACTION, "A OK in my book" by, Gina Meyers

I am 1/2 Italian, 1/4 Sicilian, and 1/4 English, Irish, French Canadian, and Indian Sioux. My family settled in Rowley Massachusetts two years after the Mayflower. On my "American" side, we have documentation to our pedigrees. But I am not a dog, lol, so I am a bit confused as to why people are concerned that Chris Cuomo was called a name and he reacted and then apologized for reacting.

Since when do people that are being attacked need to apologize for losing their cool?
Why can't we loose our cool and get angry when being verbally attacked?
We are supposed to rise above blatant prejudice and hatred?

Ummm, why?

A very long time ago, I had an intellectual discussion with my full-bloodied Italian mother, single mom, English professor in High School & College by career choice. I explained to her that "sticks and stones will break my bones, but names will never hurt me" is a blanket false statement. Plenty of times people have called me names, and a very small handful--rather maybe two fingers (and I'm not talking the middle, and no I am not crossing my fingers), I've been threatened with physical violence (from two girls in particular, one in 6th grade and another in 8th grade). Names do hurt and if people say mean things to us, we are supposed to react in kind by defending ourselves. We are HUMANS, not machines.

Every body has a different approach, set up or not, Chris Cuomo did no wrong by verbalizing his feelings, he's lucky the guy that called him a FREDO didn't get a fat lip. Just my opinion.

I am as American as Apple Pie, but I've never watched the Godfather. I've never watched it because I heard it depicts Italians as mobsters, I prefer Mickey Blue Eyes where a British Hugh Grant pretends to be an Italian Mobster by the name of Mickey Blue Eyes to keep his fiancee Gina's family at bay.

Sticks and stones can break your bones and names will hurt you if you let them. How you respond either by ignoring, approaching, punching, I'm sorry that's your business. You cannot help your first instinct after all.

Lucky for me I've never see The Godfather and lucky for me I haven't (cross my fingers) been called racial slurs in front of my face.

Now go on and live life as usual.

That's all for now!

By the way, it smells as rat since apparently Chris Cuomo's family is in the political business.
Not taking political party lines or anything of the sort, but I'm human and so is Chris Cuomo.

There is another saying, "Ignorance is bliss", being happy in your own little bubble in such a heated time kinda makes sense.