Speaker. on September 21. the Communications and Power Subcommittee of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce held hearings on House Concurrent Resolution 262. legislation which I had introduced protesting the treatment of ethnic. racial and religious groups by the television and motion picture industries. At this time. I would like to include in the RECORD the testimony by Arthur Goldberg in support of this legislation: We are a nation of immigrants. Ever since Christopher Columbus left Genoa in the 15th Century. on the voyages that would eventually bring him to the shores of the New World. men and women from every part of the world have been drawn to this continent in search of freedom. and liberty. and peace. There are no citizens of this land whose roots are not deeply imbedded in the soil of a foreign land. And no citizen of this country may rightfully claim to be more of an American than any other simply because his immigrant ancesters arrived in this country from one particular part of the world. or were members of any particular faith. or came to this country at some early stage of its development. And because we are all equally American. our common immigrant background has created in this country historys most successful pluralistic societyan amalgum of cultures and creeds the likes of which the world has never seen. It is. therefore. a matter of great seriousness that ItaloAmericans. who are among our countrys most valued and loyal citizens. have been unfairly and inaccurately portrayed in all its many television and motion picture presentations. ItaloAmericans are honored members of the American community.
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