The Sopranos (TV Series)

Christopher (2002)

Larry Sellers: Professor Del Redclay

Quotes 

• Ralph Cifaretto : I represent a group of concerned citizens who are very upset about this protest your "spear heading", no pun intended

  Professor Del Redclay : Who do you represent?

  Ralph Cifaretto : Italians here in New Jersey, good people "family" people and they asked me to tell you that it's not in your best interest to go through with this fuckin thing

  Professor Del Redclay : Well, if you've come here to intimidate me? You don't know much about Indian resolve

  Maggie Donner : Del, should I call security?

  Professor Del Redclay : No

  Ralph Cifaretto : [Showing him a poster of Iron Eyes Cody]  you remember this guy?

  Professor Del Redclay : Iron Eyes Cody, he was an actor in the movies

  Ralph Cifaretto : [Listing some of movies he was in]  Son of Paleface, Sitting Bull. Your fuckin poster boy. Part Cherokee, part Cree. Wasn't even a fuckin Indian. Second generation Sicilian from Louisiana named Espera DeCorti

  Professor Del Redclay : Well, I think you better leave now

  Ralph Cifaretto : The guy's a total fuckin phony, total fugazi but he kept it quiet. Well, we're not going to. You keep up with your bullshit, we're going to go wide with this thing

  Professor Del Redclay : Knock yourself out

  Professor Del Redclay : [after Ralphie leaves, to his assistant]  Jesus Christ is this true? This is a fuckin disaster

  Maggie Donner : [Rubs his arm to conform him]  chill out. You didn't know about this? It's been on Access Hollywood, E!

  Professor Del Redclay : [Interrupts her]  this is a major PR boner

  Maggie Donner : Del, it's been researched: Cody was definitely a Native American, a total environmentalist

  Professor Del Redclay : Are you sure about this?

  Maggie Donner : Look Del, I'm one eighth Italian myself

  Professor Del Redclay : You are? You never told me that

• Montel Williams : [during his talk show]  welcome back, we're here with our guest Dr. Del Redclay, professor of anthropology at Rutgers university and spokesman for the anti-Columbus protest. Also, Mr. Phillip Di Notti who is the president of the Coalition of Italian American Anti-Defamation organization

  Professor Del Redclay : let's start with the "idea" of a parade for a genocidal colonial general, a national holiday no less, such festivities are deeply offensive to us

  Phillip Di Notti : these are pretty "broad" charges, all I know is Italian Americans are extremely proud of Christopher Columbus: admiral of the ocean seas and a great Italian

  Professor Del Redclay : you know very well the compromised position we put forth. Now, if your people want to make it an "Italian pride" parade, we have no problem with that

  Montel Williams : western history does say Columbus discovered America

  Professor Del Redclay : the same "America" that put "your people" in bondage for three centuries

  Montel Williams : but every culture has had to bear the pain in the making of what I think we can all agree is a starkly "economic miracle"

  Phillip Di Notti : he cured polio

  Montel Williams : I have to agree with Phill, the right to vote

  Phillip Di Notti : exactly. Take my grandparents: two simple people from Sicily, who braved the peril-less middle passage

  Montel Williams : [surprised]  "middle passage"? That's the term for the slave trade