How Italians Became American (NYTN Compilation)

[@nytn]

Scroll down for links to the 10 chapters in the video! Send me a coffee!: ko-fi.com/nytn13#linkModal 1. The Tallulah, Louisiana lynching of 1899 kzbin.info/www/bejne/i4GrqXutpLBrp6sfeature=shared&t=39 2. The New Orleans lynching of 1891 kzbin.info/www/bejne/i4GrqXutpLBrp6sfeature=shared&t=1098 3. School segregation in the South kzbin.info/www/bejne/i4GrqXutpLBrp6sfeature=shared&t=1999 4. Americas WW2 Interment camps for Italian-America kzbin.info/www/bejne/i4GrqXutpLBrp6sfeature=shared&t=2790 5. What you got wrong about the Mafia kzbin.info/www/bejne/i4GrqXutpLBrp6sfeature=shared&t=3679 6. Why Italians were considered “Low IQ“ kzbin.info/www/bejne/i4GrqXutpLBrp6sfeature=shared&t=4104 7. My dad shares his Italian-American story kzbin.info/www/bejne/i4GrqXutpLBrp6sfeature=shared&t=4933 8. The REAL reason we have Columbus Day kzbin.info/www/bejne/i4GrqXutpLBrp6sfeature=shared&t=6819 9. What Italians think about Italian-Americans kzbin.info/www/bejne/i4GrqXutpLBrp6sfeature=shared&t=7271 10. What do Italian-Americans get wrong about Italian food? kzbin.info/www/bejne/i4GrqXutpLBrp6sfeature=shared&t=9110

[@svenlima]

+nytn I intended to send you a coffee but then my mother pointed out that it would be cold untill it arrives at your place. So I drank it myself. Sorry!

[@nytn]

A cold coffee is a terrible sin! :D@@svenlima

[@sarahchambers867]

Stop lying...tell them u r a inverted demon witch....now that’s truth...u r NOT a woman....womb u hve none...we praise YAH and our HEBREW MESSIAH we don’t play bout them....his story is a lie bihhhhh

[@ReshonBryant]

☕

[@KRYINGFREEMANX]

I’m really proud of you thank you for speaking on these topics

[@r.j.mayers529]

I am absolutely flummoxed sad, and dismayed that my high school American History textbooks. and teachers did not have the courage, nor conviction to cover these topics, however; your channel is a place of Truth, backed by impeccable research,,and irrefutable evidence:” to fill the “capacious void, and PAP” that colored obvious: distortionate understanding, if you will; high school American History experience.. - You’ve more than earned your place among the Master Class of Teachers on the subject of American History!

[@stephenjames2690]

It's easy to see why this isn't taught in schools. It would destroy the concept of Whiteness, and many peoples' sense of identity and status.

[@jaengen]

Florida will ban such stuff from textbooks, if they haven’t already.

[@stephenjames2690]

@@jaengen The irony is that they'll ban it because it's racist toward White people.

[@r.j.mayers529]

@@jaengen But, BUT; Florida’s Governor is a second, or third generation Italian American! It’s quite telling that the American historical tradition in institutional racialism is so embedded in its cultural roots, that it motivates - what we would consider; accomplished and “intelligent political leaders” in office to enact, and uphold extreme racial policies in order to placate their core political party’s base: much to the obvious detriment of denying their own personal American historical racial heritage.

[@big120treez]

​@@r.j.mayers529I can see Fla Gov Ron's shocked Pikachu face in my mind. If he were to give what you said some really deep thought.

[@wadisanaa]

this is all new to me. Job well done

[@FCntertainr]

Thanks!

[@FCntertainr]

I just love all the work you have done and continue to do! I got an updated DNA 🧬 reading from CRI Genetics that does last 5 generations then the ancient previous ancestry. My ancient DNA is from every continent suggesting Caribbean roots. My dad told me we have island roots. I have found at least two great grandfathers sired by slave masters and can trace their families to areas I have DNA 🧬 ie Scotland Britain etc but haven't found one African! Your ggrandma Lola is very well documented and you know where your African ancestry. You acknowledge your African heritage as the hardest struggles that make you what you are today. You don't have to patronize any black folks because you show how great our struggle is ! 8 think it's cool when your husband can sing and your Sister in law etc that's so cool!

[@nytn]

I’m so glad you are here!

[@loupapa1175]

Thank you for these videos

[@LevelsToThisShift]

just found your channel & I love the way you present this buried, much needed information. very clear, concise, straight to the point, & potent

[@nytn]

Means a lot, thank you!

[@megamadre]

Not trying to be a nit picker but it is pronounced Dey-ghos Or day- goes.. I'm from Louisiana and your videos are so well researched. Thank you so much for the work you put into them❤.

[@lewisjohnson8297]

I grew up across the river from Philidelphia during the '50s. At the time, southern Italians were still considered "swarthy", as were Andalusians and Greeks (olive undertones). Before that, the Irish (although anything but "swarthy") had filled that slot between slaves and free whites, because their position, vis á vis the Brits, were basically slaves of the land. Kennedy was opposed vehemently, because of the double whammy of Irish and Catholic.

[@ReshonBryant]

🎯

[@florenceneri8240]

Les sicilien du sud est un mélange de normand et arabes

[@jbstarkiller4626]

None of that is true

[@FCntertainr]

When JFK got married he had to ' uninvite ' Sammy Davis because they thought that would be the nail in the coffin! Catholic plus black , even though Joey Bishop of the Rat Pack was Jewish!

[@christophermannmanno6318]

I appreciate all your research and thoughtful commentary on the Italian American experience. I too think its important to never forget where your roots come from. As well to never let others define who you are, but let your heart, character, love and your work be an inspiration and a beacon to those in need of hope and understanding. As we are inspired we too aspire to connect and inspire in love and truth.

[@James-oi7mz]

Wonderful compilation of the history and thoughts of Italian Americans. We can take pride through all this that Italians became very successful Americans.

[@nytn]

thank you:)

[@MsObsidianReloaded]

They became successful because they became white/white equivalent

[@adventuresinmoodcity]

I'm really glad I discovered your channel, very interesting. Your father looks like he could be bi racial ( as I am ) or " Creole " . I have been studying the racial history of this country as well as the indigenous people to Ancient Egypt ,which as a racial topic is extremely interesting & says alot about how racism has affected tremendously how we view the Ancient world.....but I digress. The only one caveat id like to make is when you say " everyone has occupied the bottom rung, at some point. " Well, for even before we were technically a country, African Americans have always occupied the lowest rung. But if you mean immigrants coming over & slowly assimilating, you are correct, as the Irish caught hell too, until they were accepted .

[@elijahshort1590]

Or did you become successful because white Americans allowed you to become one of them? People really don’t fathom what it is to be socially othered and disliked - unless they live it.

[@florenceneri8240]

Ma famille a débarquer de leur Sicile natale dans les années 2o nework

[@margaretsmrcina8312]

Thank you so very much for this information. I never knew none of it

[@maria.laura00]

Hey Danielle, it would be interesting if you could search about Italian immigration in South America, Brazil and Argentina have the largest Italian diaspora in the world. You could make a comparison between the immigration in the U.S. and South America, my dad's family is of Italian descent as well, they immigrated to Brazil in the late XIX century from Veneto, Friuli Venezia Giulia and Tuscany. Brazil had received people from all corners of Italy in contrast to the majority Southern population in America.

[@pisaconpala]

🇦🇷🇦🇷🇦🇷

[@angelsoulnme]

My grandfather’s brother immigrated to Brazil. The rest of the family to the US. My family comes from Calabria

[@NeheC7]

Brazil has more African blood 80% than any other country outside of the African continent. Argentina had the same mix but they try to hide their Blackness. Those Black Argentine people still live there but they are in the mountain rural and coastal regions. It’s deeply in their blood but they hate that. They put in their history books that all of the Africans were killed in War but what they don’t openly admit is they imported Europeans from all over the world especially Italy to come in and whitewash out the Black African look. But they didn’t realize that Italians were already mixed African! Don’t believe me just do your research!

[@NeheC7]

Corrientes has the most African Argentine since 1778 and they speak with an African dialect right now!

[@lds251]

My grandfather’s family from Naples were on their way to Brazil but ended up settling in upstate NY. The way he described the boat journey they probably didn’t want to travel anymore.

[@mcclendonreport]

Frankly, your Dad, Dominic, sounds like a pretty grounded dude. You’re blessed young Danielle.

[@Barbiana444]

Wow this made me cry I love your work 🥰🥲 I’m on my family journey now

[@gazoontight]

Another excellent video.

[@JustFluffyQuiltingYarnCrafts]

This is an amazing compilation, Danielle. I could not have guessed that we've covered 3 hours on Italian-Americans on the channel. Wow! Thank you! ❤

[@venetiancat]

I'm 65, 1st generation Italian of Abruzzese and Neapolitan decent, and lived through racial discrimination in school, being made fun of for being too dark, and being called "Guinea" and "Wop" in an upscale mostly white high school in Massachusetts.. I joined the Black Student Union for safety.

[@sd247]

Italian, Irish, Scots, Germans and non Ango Saxon countries years ago in the 17-18 Century were considered SWARTHY.

[@dangercat9188]

That goes to show that Anglo Saxons are crazy lol. I love how the English started all of this and now they all quiet 😂

[@willkittwk]

The Angles and Saxons are from Germany and conquered quite a bit of England after the Roman occupation. They're more Anglo Saxon than the Celtics who inhabited Britain at the time. Even in later times King George III the German King of England spoke German. So if you want to be historically correct you should stay accurate.

[@cush5147]

​@@willkittwkyou are so right

[@chesso5508]

@@willkittwkAnglo Saxon are not from Germany lol

[@willkittwk]

@@chesso5508 study history or remain illiterate 😂. It's your choice.

[@catderhovanesian5282]

Very glad you are covering this very important piece of our history! Please know I mean this with the utmost respect; you are not pronouncing DAGO correctly. It's pronounced, DAY-GO ... I know this firsthand - I'm from NY and this term was used towards my grandparents when I was a small child.

[@nytn]

Thank you! I keep getting flagged by KZbin for slurs so I’m trying to get around it 😩

[@marthamurphy7940]

This is the first time I've ever heard about this lynching of Italians. Thank you for searching it out and posting the story. It's another horror of American history.

[@RebekahTOUCHEDBYYARN]

This has been very interesting following your channel concerning the history of this country. I knew about the Japanese ancestry being putting in these camps, but I did not know about the Italians were put there. Also, I wish I would’ve known this along time ago.

[@rileyriley2313]

Knew nothing about this history. It really is painful because the Black/Italian history of discrimination is so similar. Our 2 histories should be united but the American way is so toxic to all racial groups. The English crown is the biggest blame

[@Ramblinman1977]

My paternal great grandparents were from Bari in Southern Italy. They emigrated to America in the early 1900s after getting married, they decided to move to Pennsylvania Dutch country in Eastern PA. My great grandfather was a barber and opened a barbershop in town. Since they were pretty much the only Italians in the area, the people who lived there refused to go to his barbershop because they were Italian. It went on long enough where my great grandfather was close to going out of business until the local church vouched for him. Only after that did people started to go to his barbershop. After awhile, nobody in that small town in PA cared that he was Italian and was accepted as part of their community.

[@chesso5508]

People only seem to care about there great grandparents when they were Italian, why does everyone want to be Italian lol , if your great grandparents were Italian, then your grandparents were Italian-American, your parents were American from Italian origin and anything after that is just American.

[@whoahna8438]

So you're Creole Black and Italian Black... welcome to the Black side lol

[@christopherwellman2364]

Wow, that's fucking stupid.

[@timeforchange3786]

It is sad there is so much division in this country today. It is common knowledge that many people "passed as white." When many people look at white people they feel hate towards them but they don't realize their ancestors may have gone through the heartaches of slavery as well. I guess they don't think about the descendants of the people who passed. I hope one day people will realize they have much more in common than the differences they try to focus on.

[@EdwardSWessonJr-kz5el]

I love 💕 Native American people like yourself Danielle.You're GOD'S GIFT to ALL MANKIND 🌎🌍🌏 WORLDWIDE!

[@Ariapeithes_]

Creole is not black. Ancestry of a Creole is Spanish and French.

[@whoahna8438]

@@Ariapeithes_ The first Creoles are Portuguese. Sierra Leone Krios are Black Belizean Kriols are Black Suriname Creoles are Black Creole can be of any continental origin depending on which society they're from.

[@gglehteswhtemnAdChrstns]

Hi again from Australia. The main man that changed life for Italians in America was Fiorello La Guardia. The man was a brave revolutionary. Delve into his history and you’ll be surprised in what you find. He rebuilt NY, and his actions literally rebuilt the US making NY the ability to be the commerce capital for the US. I took on a similar roles to him in Australian (WA) politics but it was on a much smaller scale simply due to the social demographics.

[@bellacucina3209]

With graditude for your committment to dig deep into the past of Italian and Italian/American perserverence. The martyrs are revealed. Keep Going

[@gethappy]

You mean how Italians became white. …

[@florenceneri8240]

Les italiens on toujour été blanc

[@papachunks1995]

@@florenceneri8240hahaha watch her videos!!

[@handleisGG]

​@florenceneri8240 white is northen europe, not south South is Mediterranean.

[@handleisGG]

​@florenceneri8240 white is northen europe, not south South is Mediterranean.

[@SamReed_1]

Your father could easily pass as your older brother. He looks incredibly young

[@nytn]

He tries to all the time 😅

[@colinchampollion4420]

​@@nytnyou mademoiselle look like a Mulleogeon and not Hispanic because you don't speak Spanish and you were NOT raised Hispanic by your mum😂🎉!

[@paulreed979]

Thanks Danielle, I find your compilations related to genealogy and how it was viewed throughout US history fascinating just like I do Dr. Henry Louis Gates presentations on PBS!! Your presentation of Italian American experiences in the south remind me of this documentary about Chinese Americans in the south, where they didn't fit the black or white dynamic and were in limbo.

[@stephenjames2690]

What interests me most is that "White" or "Black" are accepted as valid categories at all.

[@nytn]

I agree totally with you

[@djolivierastro]

These stories brought tears to my eyes . Civilization is just skindeep

[@nonchalantivy5823]

I watched the documentary on your great grandmother yesterday. When I clicked on this video, I had no idea it would be about my hometown of Tallulah

[@RichardRaphael-yq3ot]

I'll try to keep this post short. Hopefully, you'll read it with an open mind. KZbinrs have an agenda. They want to push their story or their view. How is that different from what the system has done historically? I'm not faulting you specifically, but I'm pointing out similarities in approach across KZbinrs. For example, I've been fortunate to know the family of the Italians impacted by this story. One of the descendents is an artist and one of his prints hangs over my fireplace. So what's my argument? KZbinrs are leaving huge relevant aspects of the story from their narratives. For example, you talk about how Italians were relegated to Black communities and haven't talked about yet how the Italians became the monsters they hated. Obviously, not all, but enough. And, "white" is nothing more than a status in the American caste system. To your credit, I think you've said or alluded to as much in this video as well those prior. I'm not trying to be critical or dismissive (not intentionally). I think you and other KZbinrs make great videos. It's cool that you're vulnerable and bring your family into your virtual world. I guess what I'm suggesting is more honesty, not less or none. I appreciate how you don't go into the racial slur stuff, but you're leaving out how Italians were brutal to other groups (especially African-Americans) in their fight for "whiteness." Italians didn't just step through the 'whiteness door' and leave it open. They stepped through and slammed it shut. I know this sounds too broad, but my research points only in this direction. The only reason the United States and colonial America (with the exception of the Chinese perhaps) became open to these other non-black groups was to undermine the "black" or "negro" population (free, indentured, and enslaved). The entire immigration system was predicated on it (still).

[@nytn]

I appreciated this comment, and Im actually working on a video that touches on a bit of what you brought up re: animosity between Italians and African Americans. It was definitely there on both sides. I dont have an agenda (that I recognize) but I am learning about this history in public, with every video I research. Hopefully as I keep learning, more pieces of the puzzle will connect. I really am glad you took the time to thoughtfully respond. We need more dialogue like this online and in the world.

[@lucianomezzetta4332]

You also have an agenda, Richard. We can see it in comments like "the Italians became the monsters they hated." Your bigotry shows through all of your glib virtual signaling. I resent you calling me and my fellow countrymen "monsters." You suggest that it is Italians that are the most racist towards blacks. What proof do you have for that asinine and very bigoted statement? Is your supposed enlightened mind not capable of seeing that Anglo America has directed its racism towards just about anyone that was not like it. Why does your agenda have to always insist that even if other races or peoples were victims of racism in America nothing that they suffered is comparable to what the blacks suffered? Since when is there a prize for being Victim Number One? You are very glib, Richard, but you are a two bit bigot. How dare you demonize an entire people? An open mind? If only you had one.

[@timeforchange3786]

I'm sorry but this sounds like a bunch of woke victimization. You are painting a whole group of people with one brush. That would be like me saying all black Americans are racists that hate white people like the Black Hebrew Israelites and the Pan-Africans. There are good and bad people in every race. Unfortunately, there always seems to be a group of people who want to pretend they are better than others.

[@blackdirtlover]

Make your own content then😂

[@RichardRaphael-yq3ot]

@@blackdirtlover You realize this KZbinr is an educated person. Not only has she completed her undergrad studies, she's completed graduate studies. You're trolling and dumbing down the comments with trivial comments, especially when it's obvious she's put a lot of thought, care, and energy into her product to make it meaningful for everyone. Instead of being a troll, if you found offense in what I said, why not be decent and state it instead of trolling? Otherwise, to be respectful to her, why not keep these trolling comments to zero?

[@carlosa9298]

Imagine as Hispanics how we feel, when our history in the American continent began half a century before the pilgrims arrived with the Mayflower.. Even though our roots in the Americas go back half a millennium, most of our history is ignored in the United States history books..I’m sure with the arrival of Spanish colonist they must have been many Italians with them since parts of the Italian territories were under Spanish rule.. Here is a great Italian who was a Spanish Naval officer and born in Tuscany, Italy.. His name was Alessandro Malaspina..😊

[@lucianomezzetta4332]

Bravo! It is great that you remember Alessandro Malaspina, Yes, he was from Tuscany, but specifically from the area known as Lunigiana, BTW I was born in that area.

[@r.j.mayers529]

Thanks for adding your context to this topic in a whole different, and interesting way - by expanding it to the Colombian, and post-Colombian ERA - that provides a whole new perspective that flows into the Spanish Colonial Era that extended its reach to Florida, Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Nevada, California, etc, that tends to be overlooked, and sometimes swept under the rug. -- There was a time in American History where the Spanish speaking areas of the U.S. where an acceptable part of the American collage - where Presidential candidates campaigned in those states using translators as an acceptable part of the political electoral process, but; that also has been “whitewashed and eliminated” in a slight of hand from the American History books.

[@yvonneboykin5834]

This three hour video was amazing. I can't believe I watched the entire thing! I learned so much. I don't know why people are upset that the Italians became "white" and never looked back; but rather became the oppressor. Mulattos went north all the time and said they were Italian to pass. "If you can't beat them..." I love history, food and the origins of words. Carbonara is not made with cream LOL, but it's also not made with pancetta. So this was right up my alley. The only thing is the more history I learn, the more I dislike people.

[@EsteemQuashIKana]

Your grandfather, definitely like, Troy too, 🙏🏾 You are an excellent student of history I had an Italian babysitter growing up So I have affinity for your family history She might have been Southern Italian in origin Great work Love your penchant for accuracy and authenticity

[@senshelive2121]

Thank you this was an excellent presentation . Your pronunciation of the term “dago” is very curious though.

[@nytn]

YT doesnt love racial slurs :) LOL it's not pronounced that way!

[@whoahna8438]

My Black friends with Italian heritage call themselves d-go n-gg-s

[@marcellocolona4980]

It’s pronounced day-go. I was told by my Sicilian father that it originated in a saying that a day goes by quickly in Italy, hence “day goes” became dago.

[@YukonGhibli]

@@marcellocolona4980 Most origin stories show it coming from a British developed epithet from mispronouncing Diego for the Spanish that migrated to the Italians later. There are other origin stories but none verified completely per the relevant dictionary studies or first usage in print and such.

[@demariusdavilamonge5202]

Hi Danielle my name is Demarius Davila Monge, I am italian Sicilyan thanks to my father and from my Mother side she is from San Antonio, Texas if you see I have my father Skin color and hair and from my Mom eyes,lips eyebrows.🥰💪🙏🇮🇹🇺🇲

[@goldcountryruss7035]

The newest food craze in Italy, Assassin's Spaghetti. Recipes are here on KZbin. Go light on the chili flakes though. Too hot for my family but I ate the whole 1st batch along with lots of Coke. Makes sense that Southern Italian food would be closer to what we would call a Mediterranean diet.

[@jammasterjay4298]

I love your show!!! I am Italian and my relatives were abused by Americans

[@mattnikirobidou]

Italians are still european regardless of how some may have thought in the past. That fact doesnt change. Many families have had tragedies and rough histories but that should not shade our future as europeans.

[@yvonneboykin5834]

Say what now? the lines on the globe are designed by the "explorers" and "conquerers". And the terms we use for the races or ethnicities are made up too. How the Italians, Jews, and Irish were treated in the US is tragic, it doesn't matter what the people in power at the time call you.

[@adventuresinmoodcity]

" ....At the hands of persons unknown " Was how the reports would read after Africans Americans were lynched in the deep south . When describing the brutality in the beating of the Italian man , you are talking about a very violent history in the deep south, in general. When you add race to the stew it would contort this expression of violence into the truly macabre . Its hard to fathom that this type of almost mideviel torture was commonplace in lynchings ( particularly in regards to the most frequent victims, African Americans) well into the 1st half of the 20th century . All the way up to the civil rights era killings of civil rights workers " Schwerner, Goodman & Cheney " , where when looking for their bodies in 1964, they found no fewer than 9 extras bodies of African Americans who had been lynched over the past decade.

[@Thegrandiosedelusion]

I am fascinated by your journey and the content you are sharing. Have you considered the racist view of southern Italians was perhaps influenced by the jesuits and the Catholic Church. The Sicilian people were fleeing the persecution. The island was a battle ground for many centuries and very important as an ecclesiastical property of the church. The Catholic Church was on a crusade to restore the island to their glory and the “marranos” were a problem.

[@sr2291]

Our parents and grandparents never spoke about their past.

[@julieennis6929]

The Italian government played a large part in ensuring Italians would be classified as White. American government had considered colored for Italians. There were no Italians in the DC area so they were seen as Black until they identified. We are very mixed race here so many Blacks here look Italian. Especially southern Italians. I have family who left Maryland to Pennsylvania to pass as White. They passed as Italians. Mid 1900s. I just found them on ancestry. They went north where many immigrant groups look like mixed Black people. In Maryland DC area you were defined as either White or Black. White was British white.

[@nicoparise-jc5fs]

We’re not white, we’re Latino. We come from Latino faliscan Italic tribe. Latino-Faliscan Latinian Geographic distribution Originally Latium in Italy, then throughout the Roman Empire, especially in the western regions; now also throughout Latin America, Eastern Canada, and many countries in Africa. The word spic was used to describe Italians no speaka. Way before puerto ricans.

[@nicoparise-jc5fs]

The Latino-Faliscan or Latinian languages form a group of the Italic languages within the Indo-European family. They were spoken by the Latino-Faliscan people of Italy who lived there from the early 1st millennium BCE.

[@timeforchange3786]

Many of the first generation Italians also looked much darker than some Italian-Americans today as well. I think because many worked outside in the sun and also many married lighter skin spouses. When I was doing my genealogy and saw pictures of some of my Sicilian ancestors I was surprised at how dark they looked. Of course, older photography probably had something to do with it as well.

[@juanareas5317]

I had an Italian teacher in junior high school in the early 70s and she would get upset if she was called white.

[@Eurodance_Groove]

I am northern italian, half Venetian and half Calabrese... And here in Italy the "north and south" issue is still present. Often comedians do mock about this issue... Southern italians are called "Terroni", which is a derogatory term to address southern borned italians used by northern ones, mostly from the Veneto and the Lombardy or Piemonte regions...

[@bonniegropper]

Italians were lynched in Tampa F.l. they wanted better working conditions in the cigar factories w high there were many in this area called Ybor City.

[@brandillysmom]

Your dad has got swagger✨

[@timeforchange3786]

He's cute too haha

[@ChristineKiral]

Hey you're very diligent ☺️ and very beautiful 😍 I hope you have a wonderful day 💯

[@maryettamoore4765]

The great thing about your story is you retain knowledge of your heritage you know you're Italian another great thing is your families weren't broken up and put in fields and brutalized and sexualized thank goodness that didn't happen to you Italians and you're not still marginalized and murdered regularly in the present system today

[@Drutzie]

My first thought; it's hard for me to understand her tears when African Americans are still discriminated against based on skin color and Italian racism toward people of African descent, even from Ron DeSantis. Italians have been very willing to become "white" and all that it entails in terms of racism.

[@QLivin]

She went blind the minute you typed this 😂

[@nytn]

My maternal line come from enslaved african americans in louisiana, so I see the value in exploring all of these experiences and how they connect.

[@skeletorlikespotatoes7846]

No they aren't. 😂 That's your problem. The most frequent racism today is against whites. Blacks have been integrated just like Italians...the issue is they refuse to let go of a lot of their cultural values that aren't good for them

[@skeletorlikespotatoes7846]

​@@QLivinnope, the comment is false

[@TheLutheranDominic]

Yeah it's wrong to care about any other race than black people. You're a moron and most likely a virtue signaling lib who thinks anyone who's conservative is automatic racist.

[@barbburgess6155]

My dads' parents and grandparents immigrated to St Louis in the early 1900's. They were looked down on but nothing like Louisiana. I have heard about the lynching down south.

[@SDBOGLE]

The Italians were Swarthy as Benjamin Franklin said in his 1771 essay

[@kevintaylor5069]

I took an ancestry DNA test a few months ago. It's not much, but I'm a small percentage Italian. I thought that that fact was cool, but I wondered, how?

[@Alan-lv9rw]

I grew up in the NYC suburbs in the 1960’s and 1970’s. Italians were treated no different than my family of Swedish ancestors or my neighbor’s Irish ancestors. The Italians were considered no better or worse than anybody else.

[@rickcaruso5918]

Brava!

[@gloriaortiz1227]

Did you nentioned once that you also have black dna in your lineage?

[@nytn]

yes, my maternal grandmother's side.

[@williamlchaney272]

You have a lot of Portuguese facial features ..The supposed orgin of Redbone Community in The Neutral zone..I interviewed one .The Stephenson name is prominent..I could tell you much more i learned

[@giorgiodifrancesco4590]

If you have in mind the guy in the cover photo and the guy in the second photo as "average Italians", I understand many things.

[@timeforchange3786]

You understand many things? Curious as to what that means.

[@giorgiodifrancesco4590]

@@timeforchange3786 I'm Italian of Italy and I see true Italians every day, not photos. I see the reality and this allows me to say that normal Italians are "a little" different from those shown.

[@timeforchange3786]

@@giorgiodifrancesco4590 I would assume, like most ethnicities, there is much differences in a group of people.

[@giorgiodifrancesco4590]

@@timeforchange3786 Yes, but not in the way you think in the US 🙂They are nuances. In America people are very confused, because the Italians who arrived mixed with families from other geographical origins. Thus, we no longer understand anything.

[@ReshonBryant]

​@@giorgiodifrancesco4590🤣

[@riccardodececco4404]

this whole American "white" - "not white" thing becomes even more ridiculous if you consider how strongly the Spanish (Vandals and Visigoths) and Italians (north - Lombardy = Langobarden AND south - Staufer = Ghibellini) were mixed with Germanic and Norman peoples, sporting their German names still today (Manfredi, Tancredi)....

[@NeheC7]

Reminder: Sicily and other parts of Europe to include Spain was ruled by Black and White Muslims from 711-1492 (Crusades.) These Black African Moors are heavily mixed in with the Sicilians even more so because they’re in Southern Italy, which was already close to Africa. Louisiana and New Orleans itself is heavily African American mixed with Europeans already. Sicilian Immigrants were darker than they look today because they still had that particular African mix. They were excepted by African Americans in that Tallulah town. Even the word Tallulah is an African Muslim term. Europeans in that town and across America were always lynching and terrorizing immigrants that were in any way associated with the African. They had to approve your whiteness when entering America during those days and now. Italians and especially Sicilians have always been African blood connected but they continue to deny this fact. Now you know more. 👏🏿

[@melinda6921]

You have NEVER been to Italy or southern Europe, you have no idea what's in the catacombs and you absolutely don't know what you're talking about! Until 30 years ago, black Africans were practically unknown in Italy, my mother saw the first black man in person in the 90s and she lived in a city of 70,000 inhabitants! Historically black people were so rare that they were shown as curiosities in circuses and people were terrified of meeting one because they had NEVER seen one in person and there were terrible rumors about them, they were definitely NOT common or integrated into Italy, until at least 50 years ago Italians considered blacks as frightening foreigners completely ALIEN to the Italian people! And prejudices against black populations were present throughout Italy, even in Sicily, precisely because they were practically non-existent in Italian territory and people had only seen them in some photos or paintings and had heard legends and horrible stories about them! And this is also demonstrated by the DNA of Italians, which even in the far south shows less than 1% presence of sub-Saharan blood. There is a slightly higher presence of Middle Eastern and North African DNA (less than 10%) but it is very ancient and dates back to the first human settlements in Europe and only shows how in certain areas people mixed less than in other areas of Europe! Unlike the Greeks, the Arabs and North Africans NEVER established colonies in southern Italy, they mixed little with the inhabitants of those areas and left no genetic traces, in fact genetics has shown that that non-European DNA is very ancient or extremely recent , due to immigration in recent centuries thanks to commercial relationships, the CAUCASOID Arabs in Sicily have NOTHING TO DO with it! In general, Italian DNA has remained unchanged over the last 2000 years and has nothing to do with the DNA of sub-Saharan Africa! P.s. And by the way, the Moors weren't black, they were North African and Middle Eastern Caucasoids! For this reason you can find their genetic traces here and there in Europe but there is practically NO sub-Saharan black DNA in Europe! In Europe black people have always been very rare and a curiosity, when there was a black person everyone knew it, they didn't live normally among us and they were absolutely recognisable!

[@ginger942]

They ruled but not exagerately mixer with the native population

[@robertjones6272]

​@@ginger942😂 they definitely did, most of Sicily had blond hair any blue eyes before being conquered and civilized by the moors..that's why the rest of Europe where calling them N!&&43$ and guineas 🤟🏿🤎🪶🥷🏿

[@regina7795]

@@ginger942the price of war is always the women……

[@handleisGG]

The moors were never black they're amazigh and thats a slur , no such thing as a black amazigh 🥴

[@Eurodance_Groove]

This video is too long. On youtube is better to keep under the 2 hour of length the videos...

[@phillipboone2005]

It takes Dennis Hopper to explain the connection between Sicilians and Africans 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@regina7795]

I get it

[@truehistory261]

That hair tells it all about your heritage

[@margaretsmrcina8312]

Now I know why my grandmother never talked she spoke nothing but italian cecilian I wish our people would have told us all about this. Wow

[@outbackigloo6489]

*Sicilian.

[@timeforchange3786]

Sicilians are from Sicily. It is sad that so many of us don't know our history because our ancestors were trying to protect us. It is a blessing that we currently live in a time where we don't face racism and live in a system where we fill we need to hide it.

[@blaiseabbatiello9178]

Wow really some good info in this video. My mother and father both100% Italian and this video cleared up some stuff for me as far as how my grandparents and Parents acted. No one can come over are house unless you were family and they didn’t want us in no one’s house.also my grand mother and my fathers all spoke fluent Italian but never spoke it to us as kids. only to each other and mostly in a whisper like they were ashamed of it . They didn’t trust no one. My grand father fault in World War II so he lived through a lot of it . We grew up in a tight mostly Italian neighborhood in south Philly. My dad told me that my grandfather worked in the foundry kinda goes with they wanted under pay us and give us the worst jobs. he said he would go pick him up back in the 50s he said it looked like hell in there black and hot in there. my grand father would go down a bare knuckle fight for money down at docks. because they were so poor. sometimes he win sometimes he loos pretty good with no training. I remember we moved out for a little bit to an all Irish Nabor hood them kids hated us around there they throw rocks at us call up wop’s and dagoes and we stud our ground and fault every day. I they jumped me and I my brother and robed him with a knife and stole his shoes . My dad got into i with a Nabor whipped his ass.There was one other Italian family around there they burned 🔥 there house down to the ground the father could not take it any more so he shot him self in the head and he died we moved back to where we came from south Philly. I remember I asked my father if we are white when I was a kid and he said what R you talking about that we are Italian I said I know but are white or black he said we are just proud Italian people and told me to drop it. We can’t erase what happened in the past but that don’t define who we are as people love your we all bleed 🩸 red thank you for a great video I learned something thank you

[@dpostigo]

16:37 no relation to the other Patrick Henry. did a double-take

[@DJ-iu5bb]

im German American I didnt have no idea we was treated like this and sent to camps that scene in Band of Brothers where that German American reenlisted for the Fatherland it starting to make a little more sense

[@BronxRisen]

Funny myself and my husband were watching reruns of the Jersey Shore🤫🤣 However, I was shocked at how dark Ronnies dad was but smiled when I saw and slapped my own hand for ignorance. It was Being from NYC and now knowing why Italians and blacks corresponded so well….❤️💪🏽🙌🏾

[@Charles-tv6oi]

Actually, many Italians hate blacks oddly enough. Conservative vs liberal etc.

[@ReshonBryant]

Went to highschool with a couple of Italian kids. One of their father's was ambiguously dark skinned. The other was clearly white/fair skinned. So, I understand what Danielle's father meant by being able to pass for Arab or Egyptian.

[@chloebelle4923]

This is important info! Can we also talk abut the Italians immigrant given DES back then? My Grandmother, who came here from Naples on the SS patria in 1923, was one of them .... and she suffered a STILL BIRTH thanks to this. Depopulation has long been one of their goals in medicine. DES causes infertility issues for up to 3 generations.

[@ChereRoberts-hodges-fg5mn]

I know people can’t accept the truth because it does hurt and it is hard ❤to hear

[@chiarafabbri2748]

Scusa se te lo chiedo, ma tu lo parli l'italiano?

[@melinda6921]

Ma figurati, è una di quelle fake "italiane" che vengono da 10,000 diverse etnie e che per moda non vogliono considerarsi bianche quindi ha scelto di identificarsi come "italiana" perché nella mente dei razzisti americani pieni di pregiudizi gli italiani non sono veramente "bianchi"... Questa è "americana" fino al midollo, ragiona solo per sfumature di colore, per pregiudizi e per razza, che schifo.

[@willkittwk]

Criollo is a old term for a White person of Spanish decent born in the Americas. Actually it is to distinguish a White Spanish man born in America as opposed to one from the old country or a castizo 3/4 Spanish 1/4 native or mestizo 1/2 Spanish and 1/2 native American. Lets put it all out there.

[@BenitoCBlanco]

My best friend is from Sumrall its uh it hasn’t changed much I will say that there are more good people than bad but many folks out there are stuck in 1969

[@janedoe1229]

An important aspect of Italian American history is the number of African Americans who passed for itilians. Thousands passed

[@melinda6921]

LOL! They succeeded because in your prejudiced mind an Italian was the same as a black person. But it would have been impossible in Europe, where anyone knew how to distinguish a European from a black and no one would have believed even for an instant that a black was Italian, in fact in these parts of the world no one even tried, we're not STUPID.

[@robertjones6272]

Black didn't exist at this time period it was moors who conquered and developed Sicily, and mixed with them for decades... So by knowing and keeping that fact in mind what you say was not entirely true😂 they tried it though...when was the moors expelled from Spain /Sicily? Right🤎🪶🤟🏿​@@melinda6921

[@babyboy562]

@@melinda6921indigenous Italians were “Black” though the Etruscans so wtf are you talking about? Any pale Italian is truly a foreigner to Europa and Italy. The “Black” Moors controlled Europe. You Albion’s are from Western Asia the caucus mountains and according to science your kind is 6000 years old. Truth hurts 🤷🏾‍♂️

[@andrewalex7873]

Quentin Tarantino needs to find American Italian derogatory slang, negativity & racism within his movies now for Italians 🤣

[@Eurodance_Groove]

Do you know the acronym "W.A.S.P."? Which means "White Anglo-saxons People"?

[@LauraBaptiste]

It actually means White Anglosaxon Protestant.

[@hotlanta35]

People milk this quote for all it’s worth.. I mean do people even know who said this to begin with ?

[@axiomsofspacecadetsoniceax9347]

That scene in the spike Lee movie do the right thing when they was in the closet and spike was running down the Italian black thing

[@aliforeman1819]

Think of this... Italians came here and were oppressed by who ? The Irish came and were oppressed by who? The Natives and Mexicans got their land stolen by who ? Who dropped a nuke in Japan ? All this and what group of people get the most hate ? 🤔 Interesting and sad...

[@HeywardSanders]

The Italians, Greeks, Jews were not considered as white, that whites would not support their stories that history speaks about in American culture. Who gained their power once they dominated all the black businesses, and controlled the blacks movement. They also did not accept the Irish, but new history came in to keep the people's minds on other things.

[@Eurodance_Groove]

SCAGLIONE surname has to be read as "SCA-GLIO-NE"... THE ACCENT IN ITALY USUALLY GOES UPON THE THIRD VOWEL STARTING FROM THE END OF THE WORD AND THE "GLI" HAS NOT TO BE DIVIDED INTO "G+LIO"... IT HAS TO BE READ AS THE DOUBLE L IN SPANISH OR IN THE WORD "BATTALLION"...

[@alisalittle817]

African American smh that’s maybe the 4th reclassified name. Me? I can go back 1800’s with no mention of such ‘ MORE LIKE AN INDIAN! And West Indies. SMH . Sure AFRICA like DUH! There’s KEMET… I mean. I’m aware of William PLECKER and his position in the US CENSUS. If we go way back ? HM . Then there’s the story about HANNIBAL THE GREATEST….. well we know..

[@bryanb30]

Facetious Answer - The God Father (Will visit the video later!) One ❤loves Italians and some of one’s favorite people spoke the language and or have lived there!

[@williamlchaney272]

The Italians fit in well in Tangipohoe Parish Louisiana

[@phillipboone2005]

Isn't there a saying in Italy. Africa begins at Napoli

[@GlennBurris-ym2wo]

I have herd of the conflicts

[@sabrinapilia2539]

Your dad is handsome

[@ralphg2771]

Whats more sad is said peoole faced said discrimination but went on to join other people in discrimination towards black people.

[@loladomino1119]

How’s that? What have Italians joined that do that. So sick of ppl finding ways to put down the Italian community

[@teachone2261]

These lynching are still crimes and should be investigated

[@margaretsmrcina8312]

Thank you again this is really gonna help me tell my people. The truth cause they never believed It . The reason why I found out any of it was because black people called me black and I used to look at him like they were crazy. What are you talking about? I'm not black, I'm cecilian. I used to say. what are you talking about ? I know it's really true.

[@timeforchange3786]

Many Sicilians have North African DNA so some assume they have black ancestry from the Moors but there were what was known as the blackamoors and the Arab Moors.

[@margaretsmrcina8312]

Just wanna throw it at you. My mother's name was piazza

[@williamlchaney272]

I study as you ..The Jewish roots of East and West Feliciana Louisiana crazy history..

[@scientifico]

The "Melting pot" concept was never a good thing. It was supposed to mean you no longer held onto those things that enriched you as a people (usually a far older and culturally richer people than the "White America" you were supposed to assimilate into). But for me, holding onto my racial culture over the "american culture" was a choice because why should I become a person like america? Why should I become a money chasing, hypocritical, heirarchal and shallow person? Do I want to be an idiot patriot who defends a global war machine? Do I want to transfer hate to the next group of immigrants in an attempt to raise my position? America is in many ways the antithesis to what makes a good society. It is a nation and a people in pursuit of a thing but not a nation and a people with a purpose. America no longer inspires, it only offers you the opportunity to purchase. America has cheapened itself as it continues to cosign genocide based on race (See Israel/palestine and who in the population also support the apartheid oppressor and not the oppressed). Naw, I'll continue to see myself outside of this american lie. Maybe one day America will honor the premise under which it claimed back in 1787 vs being an enabler for sociopaths and monsters.

[@lucianomezzetta4332]

Mi piace, Scientifico.

[@carmenzajac9387]

One thing you left out, the Genocide of the Indigenous and Aboriginal Tribes to make your America out of Our Lands. Well they got what they wanted so could we stop with the Hate Already ❤ Thank you for doing this Show because this is Super important History that you are sharing and it is Everything. We need to come together and be one Family for the sake of our Humanity ❤

[@carmenzajac9387]

I was responding to one of the comments.

[@carmenzajac9387]

@ sciantifico

[@timeforchange3786]

I always wonder why people who hate America so much don't choose to move to a country they respect more.

[@MONTIQUEDOLLARD]

I! INTERVIEWED! MY! UNCLE! LIKE! YOU! DID! YOUR! DAD! MY! UNCLE! WAS! BORN! ON! AMERICA! DEEP MISSIPPIPPI!! PLANTATION'S!!!SOIL! IN! 1916!! I! RECORDED! HIM! ON! CASSETTE!! TAPE! WHEN! I! MOVE! TO! NEW! HOME! I! LOST! CASSETTE!! (SAD!!!) GREAT!! MIND! / THOUGHT! TO! INTERVIEW! YOUR! DAD!

[@margaretsmrcina8312]

No wonder they had created the call them that. So I guess they just accepted it and created it. Wow, I guess they. really trying to protect theirs, oh my God.

[@valimback5109]

The cold snow ⛄️ ❄️ theory

[@midlifemotox]

Thank you for bringing real history to life. My Sicilian family came to New Orleans in 1894. They didn't have it easy. Cosa Nostra comes into play for no other reason than self preservation.