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Visitors to New York's Columbus Day parade get cheeky about new claim that the explorer was Jewish, not Italian: 'We don't care'

Christopher Columbus wasn't actually Italian? Paesan NO. Italian-Americans and participants in the Columbus Day parade on Monday cheekily rejected claims that new DNA evidence shows the controversial explorer was a Sephardic Jew, probably from Spain. “We don’t care,” said Cherie Corso, who marched in the Manhattan parade with an Italian flag around her neck. “He […]