The 1891 lynching of 11 Italian-Americans in New Orleans

Learn the history behind the largest lynching on U.S. soil.

[@jeffsamuels2539]

Italy threatened war over their people?! Just man. That’s so deep. Dope af they looked after theirs

[@عقبةبننافعبنالقيسالفهري]

Lol sicilians would disagree

[@jeffsamuels2539]

@@عقبةبننافعبنالقيسالفهري lol Rome wasn’t capturing Sicilians and selling them in the slave trade. Remember There’s levels to this.

[@عقبةبننافعبنالقيسالفهري]

@@jeffsamuels2539 yet they abandoned them because they became so mixed lol

[@jeffsamuels2539]

@@عقبةبننافعبنالقيسالفهري welcome to the club brother 😂😂 I get you but you can’t be mad at me

[@NoName-hg6cc]

@@عقبةبننافعبنالقيسالفهري Who abandoned who?

[@peanut392]

Im Sicilian/Italian descent. My dad told me that his grandparents were even spat at when they walked down the street in the U.S. ☹

[@peanut392]

@@nicoparise-jc5fs oh hey my name is nico too

[@Press1for]

🖕 Johnnydoe

[@Corxed]

My grandfathers were auctually occasionally beaten on the streets and called guineas and wops everywhere they went for their entire childhoods. Very sad indeed.

[@wolf17238]

​@Corxed That sucks coming a "Christian nation." I guess the perpetrators chose to ignore the teachings of Jesus. Kind of like nowadays.

[@DonPutt]

Interesting how the mistreatment of the Italians and Irish are hardly ever addressed, but yet we are constantly told about the Holocaust and black Slavery.

[@davidnavarro4821]

Fun fact: this happened the same year an anti-Italian riot took place in Aigues-Mortes, France. There too, the italian government threatened war!

[@tommasovasta8323]

All this mass immigration started a couple of decades after the Unit of Italy (1861).

[@kellikocha7733]

Where’s my representations? Proud Sicilian 🇮🇹

[@imacolonelinbf2975]

you're brown

[@sarcastic4982]

I know right? people act all Europeans have been represented with just pale blonde hair people, I wanna see some of my olive skinned folks from southern italy ❤️✋🏼🇮🇹

[@GhostSal]

I take it you meant reparations?

[@autismobinch135]

@@GhostSal yeah that probably what he meant 1:26 would be the answer

[@majikss]

Can't even make fun of black people right you fucking moron

[@khfan4life365]

I’m Italian descent. My nano told me stories of the discrimination he and his parents faced back in the 40s during WWII. Even black people treated him as inferior. Despite that, he’s a proud and fierce patriot of America, something he has passed on to his children and grandchildren, myself included. I am a proud American, but I do acknowledge my Italian heritage and the crap my ancestors went through.

[@AtomicMushroomz]

A lot of Americans of Italian descent and Italians in Italy are very racist unfortunately

[@knmay7976]

I kind of understand Italian Americans being that way. You get treated like dirt and you tend to hate everybody. You’ll find a reason to hate a group of people and cling to it. Still A LOT of that happening in multiple groups of people in the US that were treated extremely poorly

[@standforhumanitariancauses4756]

@@AtomicMushroomz Who are they racist toward?

[@gregDino32]

@@standforhumanitariancauses4756 Many people , black people ,Hispanics ( even if you are light skinned) ,Asians ,every now and then Jews,poles even Irish people .

[@gregDino32]

@@knmay7976 Very true , in fact some Hispanics are racist too , it's not right but it's for the same reason, being treated like dirt.

[@Freddyfrug]

New Orleans was a place where Italian Americans were as despised as African Americans which happened to have a shortage of Italian American females during the time. Out of those two components, there may have been a degree of sexual intimacy between Italian American males and African American females that was exceptional because in comparison to any other place in the country, the proportion of African Americans in New Orleans who bear surnames of Italian origin is much greater. Among the dozens, are Ammirato, Arena, Barabino, Bruno, Cagnolatti, Cuneo, Danna, Domio, Fascio, Fortuna, Gallo, Garibaldi, Liuzza, Manetta, Martello, Nocentelli, Romano, Russo, Sentino, Spadoni, and Taranto.

[@BeppeBenzina]

italians likes big black booty

[@noahsherwood2445]

@Eros Delorenzi Italians weren't always in conflict, not in New Orleans anyway. The relationships between different groups of people vary from each place.

[@baconingbad]

@Eros Delorenzi You know, as Noah said, it doesn't mean that they all or were always in conflict between each other. There were even Italian shopkeepers who got lynched in Tallulah, because they accepted black customers and treated them the same.

@Eros Delorenzi yeah that's not Italian buddy. Beh allora avete il cazzetto 😂😂

@Eros Delorenzi no, non lo parlo

[@nikki0817]

I never knew this about my people. Damn this is fucked.

[@Jay-cp9kd]

I guess they didn’t get their “white privilege” cards when they got off the boat.. Kinda like the Italians that landed in NY, that nobody wanted to hire

[@robertdore9592]

Now you have some idea of what Native Americans and Black people went through and continue to go through.

[@MM-zj8be]

Im sure u know more about the Kardashians than your own roots..sad sad america these days

[@michaeleaton5042]

@@Jay-cp9kd or the Irish who were also heavily discriminated... guess we didn’t get our “white privilege” cards either for a while :/

[@rickyjames4228]

@@michaeleaton5042 The Irish went into underworld as well as politics and normal life but they got their white card by the time they got into the police force.

[@studenttwelve835]

All Italians need to watch this. They have forgotten their own history and became so proud in discriminating against others.

[@jellycream1964]

Italians are probably the least discriminatory of the white ethnicities in America

[@imacolonelinbf2975]

@@jellycream1964 italians aren't white

[@vee11-11]

@@imacolonelinbf2975 Yes, we are.

[@imacolonelinbf2975]

@@vee11-11 no you're not. No such thing as an italian ethnicity. Just the fact that there's people arguing about italians being white means they're not white.

[@sarcastic4982]

@@imacolonelinbf2975 I would consider us mix as of a american standpoint, can't say the same for the northerners, but sicily and us the southerns have been conquered a lot by the middle east and africa

[@tristezzalamentoluciano265]

I read this thread almost daily due to notifications etc. It's hilarious when you stop to consider that when you break it all down, people are trippin over the amount of melanin a person has or doesn't have. It's all so petty and ridiculous.

[@sicilianupazzu5374]

@Tristezza It's the racist African Americans is always talking about the lack of melanin a person has.

[@tristezzalamentoluciano265]

@@sicilianupazzu5374 well, I know it's a little of every group that pays this too much attention. I'm personally sick of it all. Why is it, that in this late year of 2021, we as human beings can't agree that all people of all races and complexion, are equal? Why is there still this futile argument over who is superior and who belongs where etc? I'm a really liberal person. I'm very open and accepting. I'm kind of an Earth Worshipper, or a Pagan/Druid as Christians would call me. I have a deep love for our planet and for all creatures on it, no matter how unnecessary and insignificant they seem to us. I feel an attachment to the trees, the oceans, the soil, the moon and to every person that I come across. For me, there can be no race of people superior than another. We don't say that this species of bird is better than that one, or that this fish is better than another. We are all necessary and all have a place here. We all belong. I get really heated when I hear some mortal man yelling about his superiority and his place at the top of the hierarchy, for several reasons. I don't understand why they're so threatened by anything or anyone that's different from them. That insecurity is ridiculous to me. There's no competition here. We all have to coexist and learn to respect our planet if we are going to survive. Right now, the outlook is dim at best. Yes, it's some of the African-Americans obsessing about skin tone. But it's also Asians, Hispanics, Caucasians, etc. Every group does it. I think their reasons for doing it are different. But let's say someone who is African-American hates me or decides I'm a substandard quality human based on my complexion (which is very strange, I might add-its a pale golden-olive that stays very light in the winter when Im not in the sun, but gets deep bronze-olive during the summertime). This person would be racist and just as wrong as the white supremacist who engages in the same silly ideology. Our melanin levels are indicative of nothing more than our geological position and proximity to the equator. I don't mean to ramble or hyperbolize, it's just hard for me to explain my thoughts sometimes. My apologies.

[@tristezzalamentoluciano265]

@scsyc bxcvbx who is Targetta? I couldn't find the person/comment under this name. What did they say?

[@tristezzalamentoluciano265]

@scsyc bxcvbx who are you talking to? And who or what comment are you replying to? Because your reply seems very irrelevant to my post. I didn't mention religion or faith at all, nor did I mention a specific race of people. If you could explain your words, in a respectful and articulate way, I would greatly appreciate it.

[@sicilianupazzu5374]

@Juliet Miles What are you talking about?

[@mikeybears23]

Im Italian mom born in Calabria, the Calabrias people were really looked down upon.

[@ACooperrocks]

Neapolitans as well

[@bkboy8259]

Everyone from Southern Italy was

[@robertdore9592]

...oddly enough by Italian immigrants too...

[@vincentgiasullo]

Sicilians were as well. Most of the victims of the lynching were Sicilian.

[@eternalnobody2561]

Calabrians = of Greek Origin

[@Knicks518]

Crazy how no one ever talks about this. I’m Italian myself and never knew

[@chainmail5886]

I do.

[@Knicks518]

@scsyc bxcvbx why is it good ? I never knew my people were treated this bad. Had no idea Italians were looked at as lesser then.

[@Knicks518]

@scsyc bxcvbx Im not saying we’re perfect. Just that we had our hardships in our time too, and glad it’s being acknowledged for future Sicilian Americans like myself that can learn about their culture

[@GhostSal]

@@Knicks518 Italian/Sicilian history in the US isn’t taught, at least not much at all is. You have to do your own research to find the truth. With that said be careful reading opinions as fact. Some will say we have always been considered white or a shade of white and completely ignore all the evidence to the contrary.

[@wadejagrosee4214]

Sheep aren't trained that way they want to cancel the culture but we're the racists don't forget that

[@zampieritto]

Only 25000, should be more. I want the American authorities a formal apology for Sacco vanzetti too. The president should apologise for the lynchs, not the new Orleans mayor.

[@bored_of_the_psyop4126]

Just go back to Arabia where you came from

[@zampieritto]

@@bored_of_the_psyop4126 the sicilians are not Arabians. Myself I am northern Italian, a blend of celtic and Germanic. May you jealous of the Italians? You are American, maybe your mother is half Anglo-Saxon and Cherokee, your father a mix of German and 1/12 Black and you even don't know.

[@massimodanzelmo4607]

Assassin's Creed not apology, the Savage anglos killers against culture and educational barbarians

[@pageone3791]

Italian government sent Sicilians to Louisiana after this and about 60 locals mysteriously disappear

[@silverhawkscape2677]

The family takes care of their own I see.

[@pappamolly1457]

I want my reparations now

[@kingmelanin7468]

Get in line...

[@adamm.6386]

Reparations were paid to the families. LISTEN!

[@kayamor7678]

Eros Delorenzi you’re a racist with nothing to do but to be in everyone’s comments loser get a life and it’s NAGA !!! you said it wrong

[@lf1496]

@Eros Delorenzi This guy is an idiot whose obsessed with black people. He goes to videos about black girls, trolling them. A black girl didn't want him and he's a bitter little brown man😂😂😂

[@lf1496]

@Eros Delorenzi The black woman mayor of New Orleans was the one who gave the Sicilians a ceremony with the apology for the pink white people who lynched you non white people. They hate you no matter how much you try to be them👆🏾

[@bobsam55]

President Garfield created a national holiday for Columbus in response to this incident.

[@drghdrgh1140]

Of all the Italians he named for a holiday. What a terrible dude! John Cabot was actually Italian Giovanni Caboto! Or the dude that actually KNEW he was on a different continent and not Asia Amerigo Vespucci?!

[@Okkeeey]

I’m an Italian from Italy and one of my relatives was there

[@forrestxvii]

If you ever come to America don’t stay long, the old country is much better

[@Corxed]

​@@forrestxviiNo, trust me it's much better here, a lot more opportunities and freedom than any other country.

[@NoRockinMansLand]

​@@forrestxvii why

[@sgregg5257]

This is wrong, while President Harrison wanted to give 25k to the families of the murdered. Congress thwarted him. In the long run each family got about 2k.

[@zampieritto]

Don't worry. The Anglo saxon and WASPs they are very sad and miserable people. They must suffer a lot, not like the Italians, beautiful people, good food, an happy people,people enjoys their lives. Also Italian people look younger like myself, I am 57,i look 37. A Anglo-Saxon at 57 look like 77

[@GhostSal]

My father is in mid 70s, literally not a wrinkle on him. If not for his all white hair he easily looks 50. His father as well, the difference is his father kept his dark hair into his 80s.

[@GhostSal]

@scsyc bxcvbx You’re talking about the Romans and their conquests? No doubt they could be incredibly cruel but that’s a different subject than WASPs, Racism, and the way immigrants were treated in the US. Also, I never said cruelty is inherent to any race of people, nor did I say one group was more or less cruel than another today or historically. That doesn’t mean we can’t discuss our ancestors and what happened to them. That also doesn’t mean because someone is discussing history they are claiming to be a victim or oppressed today. History is often misunderstood, taught with partial truths, taught from one perspective, or not taught at all. That’s why discussing history is important.

[@GhostSal]

@scsyc bxcvbx Genetically speaking Romans are Italians, so don’t act like they are not. As far as war atrocities, what nation that has gone to war hasn’t committed crimes against humanity?

[@khav11]

ya tom cruise looks 77 LMAO

[@peterwilliams5668]

@@khav11 Well he is the best 77 looking year old I have ever seen

[@Lucky_Male_Bee]

VENDETTA, a movie in the 90s is based on this story.

[@chisicilian]

I tried watching but it was pretty awful.

[@Lucky_Male_Bee]

@@chisicilian you mean the movie was bad or the violence?

[@freedomisthechoicesyoumake8594]

The movie was boring, and they romanticized about it. I'm from New Orleans and prefer oral history.

[@georgebaccett9951]

The most curious thing of all is that I know many cities in England and I can assure you that most of the English are not white with light or blond eyes, the English are mostly with dark hair and brown features

[@jaif7327]

insecure much? calling english people brown is just over the top just cause a bunch of em hated italians doenst mean u can just lie

[@Hello-fd7tt]

“The English are mostly with dark hair and brown features” lol not even remotely accurate.

[@Freddyfrug]

The affinity between African and Italian Americans in New Orleans was something which had more to do with the lynchings than many people realize. You can chalk that up to the selective memory loss among many of the Italian American residents of New Orleans as their slow journey to complete whiteness in the city came with slowly distancing themselves from the city's African American residents.

[@ninpobudo3876]

These are Italian-Creoles 🇮🇹 not Italians!

[@pimpiniseasy2778]

Ninpo Budo Sicilians*

[@pimpiniseasy2778]

Eros Delorenzi vica versa

[@pimpiniseasy2778]

Eros Delorenzi Wrong I’m from Louisiana thats opposite of the truth in the south up north sure plus you aren’t of the same as those people

[@freddyfrug3940]

Why do black Mardi Gras Indian gangs parade on a Sicilian holiday such as St.Joseph's day...according to Big Chief Allison " Tootie" Montana, it was due to African and Italian Americans being on cordial terms back in the day in New Orleans,the same sentiments echoed by Cosimo Matassa.

[@MM-zj8be]

Sacco and Venzeti in Boston. Same thing.

[@SM-zl4zd]

This didn't have to do with them being italians though - they were some low life anarcho-communists scum, so it's okay.

[@lorenzocassaro3054]

Racism is like love It has no flag, no borders and it's damn difficult to extinguish The main difference is that, eventually, between the two, the latter will inevitably end.

[@davehenderson3739]

You mean racism? Love is forever.

[@davehenderson3739]

@Ava Smuttz Yes i agree, racism is imbedded in all countries, based on not looking like the majority. So it will always be there, but through education we can lessen racism, racism really needs to be taught in all schools.

[@99fareshi42]

@@davehenderson3739 You were saying "brown" to every comment in an another video AHAHAHAHAH and i roasted you by saying names of Blonde/Blue eyed Italians, Wish you were white and European like us! Black american!

[@davehenderson3739]

@@99fareshi42 I'm black and i'm proud, don't need to be white, the only color that counts is the color of money. Is Ralph Mochio blonde/blue eyed? Most Italians aren't. So get off your high horse.

[@davehenderson3739]

@Filippo Yes it's like the African Americans, they call themselves that even though they have never been to Africa.

[@tinamckay-iv3tf]

In 1891 , southerners probably did not like anyone who was not a WASP. That's how it was back then. Fortunately , Italians are a very proud people and not weak minded. They proved to be hard workers and over time , everyone loved them.

[@dannydarko6929]

And they created the Mafia.

[@NoName-hg6cc]

​@@dannydarko6929Some did. Not all. And those bucktheet were all clans men

[@dannydarko6929]

@@NoName-hg6cc I know a few Italians in the Klan.

[@NoName-hg6cc]

@@dannydarko6929 Doubt it. Italians and the clan don't mix. But some of my relatives did meet some bucket theet in the mafia

[@dannydarko6929]

@@NoName-hg6cc I'm sure you are right. They probably belong to a CCC, a copy cat clan. Where all who hate are welcomed.

[@alexs7189]

Greetings from Palermo in Sicily.

[@gregDino32]

Ciao di Texas , Io sono Salvadore Americani , parlo spagnolo e un po' di Italiani.

[@gregDino32]

I hope I said it right but hey I tried .

[@gilmorehappy7141]

Funny how no one ever spoke of this in My 12 years of schooling

[@GhostSal]

There is far more that happened to Italians that they never tell us about either. The only way you can find out is to research and research different sources.

[@silverhawkscape2677]

​@@GhostSal Because Italians are seen as White now. Heck there is the Irish Slaves "myth" that effectively says Irish were never slaves...technically...

[@GhostSal]

@@silverhawkscape2677 Irish were słaves too though, people that say it’s a “myth” have an agenda.

[@GhostSal]

@@silverhawkscape2677 Also, even in my own lifetime I wasn’t seen as “whíte” (I’m Sicilian)… and that didn’t start to change until the 1980s. It didn’t finally really change til the 1990s though because it was starting to change in the 1980s.

[@silverhawkscape2677]

@@GhostSal It's got its own Wiki Article with Academics defending it...amd they wonder why There's such an Anti intellectual Distrust.

[@coolaprilfool1335]

People are trash. Dogs are so much better.

[@Endgame707]

I would never discriminate against someone just because they aren’t from the same country I am what the heck dude this ain’t cool

[@dareius831]

When Italy threatened to bombard New Orleans...

[@ACooperrocks]

Were immigrants responsbile for that?

[@zampieritto]

They should throw an Atomic bomb.

[@khav11]

@@zampieritto get a job

[@georgeaksich9017]

Found the wasp

[@dannydarko6929]

Colombo was a great show.

[@Zarga8]

I had all my education in south Louisiana and this was in our social studies book in school. History lessons are twisted Everywhere now in US schools, I don’t think much is taught anymore

[@chichichichichichiOwO]

I'm a New-Orleans Sicilian Descendent , they don't teach us this in Louisiana. I had to learn this from my father and the internet to learn more about this. My grandfather experienced a lot of this anti-Italian sentiment and left new Orleans. It completely uprooted and destroyed our cultural connection to Italy. I might have the last name but I am no true New Orleans Sicilian, I think at this point even my own DNA realized the separation even though its only been a generation out of the city.

[@zampieritto]

Reading the comments. A lot of discrimation against the Sicilians. Because they don't do it like me, I'm of Italian origin, I never liked where I was born, Brazil. Ask for your Italian passport and you will be free of all this racism.

[@UV_Lightning]

@Algotnis not all Italians are apart of the mafia, stop pasting this garbage everywhere

[@yeerrr2726]

@@UV_Lightning his ignorance won’t let him see that

[@NoRockinMansLand]

​@@UV_Lightningmost are

[@schquitagoodwin7549]

11 Italians lynched in 1891. 18 Chinese lynched in 1871. Haven't even mentioned Tulsa...

[@GhostSal]

There were over 50 recorded lynchings of Italians from the time Italians started coming to the US till the 1920s when strict immigration laws kept out the vast majority of Italians.

[@DeRocco21]

that is considered a massacre, the new orleans pogrom is a lynching

[@DG-xj7pm]

I've been called a wop. Stop Italian hate!!! I'm going to go cry now!! Ttyl!

[@chiarac3833]

Ya. I hear you. I've been called guinea and those are fighting words. I'm not a fighting person but watch what you say to me.

[@youcainthandlethetruth]

There should be a movie about this

[@janmiechan-ellis9992]

They should talk about this since they want to talk about slavery and the civil war..how about talking about the injustice towards the Asians out west when they were building the railroads..or how about discussing the irish people plight..irish people need not apply here in Boston..plenty of injustices and racism in all groups.

[@limonesycafe8898]

Shouldn't we remain on topic and discuss the other 538 lynchings that occurred in Louisiana between 1877 and 1940. If we have to expand the discussion to include the entire US, we can talk about the other 4000 plus lynchings that have occurred. We can also discuss if reparations were paid out to the families as well. I mean discussing the discrimination encountered by other groups would be wonderful too, but no need to make false equivalencies.

[@yeerrr2726]

I don’t think anyone stopping anybody from talking about any of those things? If it wasn’t talk about I wouldn’t of known about this

[@gregDino32]

A lot of people have been discriminated against in this nation by anglos that there is too many to talk about in this video lol what about us Latinos ?! See what I mean.

[@NoRockinMansLand]

Not everyone's suffering was the same

[@margaretjiantonio939]

About that time, my great grandfather went back to Italy. He thought he killed someone and decided it was time to leave. Smart move. We should have stayed there. My grandfather came back.

[@iamhere5261]

People say I’m white. But I say! “I’m spicy white” since I can tan too the point people mistakenly think I’m Latin American. But in the winter I go pale

[@blake_4x185]

It depends, for me in the summer I’m hella tan and brown but in the other seasons I’m olive

[@iamhere5261]

@@blake_4x185 that’s exactly how I am! My skin has a slight green undertone when I’m pale

[@blake_4x185]

@@iamhere5261 It can also be yellow or gold

[@Sean-jc6cu]

Racially you're white. White people can have very pale or relatively dark skin....

[@gregDino32]

Latin Americans can be white , actually there are many Italians in Brazil, Venezuela,Argentina , Chile , Ecuador even México and Puerto Rico has Italian descendants.

[@jimdellavecchia4594]

Italians were treated like garbage and discriminated against in huge numbers. They didn't cry "victim" and went on to help build the US.

[@NoRockinMansLand]

No they didn't, they were thugs and turned to organises crime, aka the mafia. Mafia intercepted unions and in turn gained power, though it came crushing down in the end. Black Americans built this county from the ground

[@kenj280]

Sounds like they got reparations quickly.

[@ninpobudo3876]

Maybe blacks should do the same

[@kenj280]

@Jonathan They got reparations the next year and recently an apology.

[@kenj280]

@Jonathan ok

[@michaelcapo5512]

No we started the fucking Mafia and fucked everybody up.

[@Frnk_3]

Michael Capo AYEEEEEE😂🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹

[@bobsam55]

There is a book named Vigilante that is a good read on this.

[@christineciurlino-duncan509]

Wow! Why don’t we get reparations!

[@Us3r_2005]

Nobody should get “ reparations “

[@sternino2812]

Because you came voluntarily.

[@yeerrr2726]

Look it up they did get paid & a formal apology

[@zyheenamersi1121]

African Americans were brought to this country forcefully as slaves and have been discriminated against for more than 500 years

[@matteobrandi7541]

@@sternino2812 bruh

[@terrischiro8093]

This is about innocent Italians (Sicilians) being discriminated against and killed.

[@GhostSal]

@Pawel Goliard This was about the murder of the police chief in New Orleans and they arrested random Italians. When they were found innocent, because they most certainly were, the angry racist mob numbering in the thousands lynched them. The same types of racist mobs that killed so many other innocent minorities.

[@fahhhque2255]

"innocent" 😂😂😂

[@alfonsocapone3483]

Ameri Can yes innocent

[@fahhhque2255]

@@alfonsocapone3483 Bath salts must be strong these days 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@alfonsocapone3483]

Ameri Can bath salts?

[@chisicilian]

Italians we’re definitely not white to southerners back than. Not even close

[@larpingastheduchyofburgund337]

Do you think the Yankee WASP elites considered you white either? I’m from the south by the way and of course I think you’re white.

[@chisicilian]

@@larpingastheduchyofburgund337 no wasps wouldn’t consider Italians white either. Thanks for thinking I’m White every little bit helps

[@larpingastheduchyofburgund337]

@@chisicilian You’re welcome and I kinda like Italians. I’m a complete euromutt but on the Paternal side of my family I have ancestors who were Savoyards. I can trace it all the way back to an ancestor who was born in 1475. So I just think it’s interesting how Savoy has a big connection with Italy even though it is now a part of France. Where is your family from?

[@chisicilian]

@@larpingastheduchyofburgund337 they are from Sicily, in the hills near Palermo, came to the US in the 20’s through New Orleans like many Sicilians. Savoy borders Italy I believe so I’m sure there’s Italians in that region of France . I’m born and raised in Chicago

[@Sean-jc6cu]

Census records say otherwise

[@wilhelmheinrich7502]

We should’ve said: just hit Louisiana and leave the rest of us alone.

[@99fareshi42]

@scsyc bxcvbx So only the Northern and Centern Italians because in the Southern Italy only the ones of nordic/Scandinavian Norman ancestry are white (like the 10% of the Southern Italians)

[@jamiemoretti8046]

That's why we run everything now 😂😡

[@oliveraparicio8464]

Its funny that you say that because italians have no power culturally, demographically, economically. The powerhouses in America are Germans, Mexicans, and African Americans. There are 235 million Americans of European extraction that overwhelmingly speak english(Germanic language), celebrate Germanic Festivities, and eat/drink Germanic inspired food and beer. Same with Mexicans and African Americans.

[@Isinforblood]

@@oliveraparicio8464 or just Black American instead of African American which I heard that’s what some blacks would want to hear lol 🤣💀💀

[@oliveraparicio8464]

@@Isinforblood very true. ADOS to be exact.

[@Stevenkuklinski]

Many Italians look indistinguishable from celto-germanics and are genetically related to them. Ignore all the people in the comment section spreading lies about Italians they learned on 'true romance'

[@up3315]

True Romance scene is about Sicilians, not all Italians, and there is some truth in what Dennis Hopper says, as some, not all, foot soldiers were black Africans.

[@tommasovasta8323]

True. However the italians who moved to America more than one century ago were mainly from the deep, poor, rural South Italy. Not from Milan, Turin, Venice, Verona, Florence, Roma and very few from Naples and Palermo. No, they came from small town and villages in the innerland of Sicily, Calabria, Abruzzo, Puglia, Campania. They were poor "cafoni", that means peasants, rednecks. Dark haired, olive skinned, dark or green eyes, illiterate, unmannered and miserable. Further more, deeply catholic. The american wasp who have never visited other place out of own land built their discriminating stereotype of italian on them. For sure not on the aristocrats, landowners, magistrates and artists who keep enjoying sweet life in Italy living in mansions and places that the avarage american could only dream at the time. Those italian were tallish, elegant, sophisticatelly flamboyant, gentle and much more mannered than the violent wasps. Still nowdays the difference between some italians from for example Milan and the italian-american of fourth generation is evident.

[@fightfannerd2078]

irish lynching also look it up

[@WallStwizkid]

Whites were lynched, but not in the same manner as blacks.

[@iangallagher4135]

@@WallStwizkid How?

[@WallStwizkid]

@@iangallagher4135 During the Great Lynching Era (circa 1880 -1920) native-born whites, immigrant whites (including Irish), and blacks were lynched but in significantly different ways. Native-born whites were usually lynched by small groups, in private settings, and typically for serious offenses (murder, rape etc). Conversely, blacks were usually subjected to spectacle lynching (public lynching by large mobs) for minor infractions and their bodies were often burned afterwards; when whites were lynched their bodies were rarely ever burned. Blacks were also lynched at rates significantly higher than whites. White Irish immigrants were lynched in a manner and at rates consistent with native-born white lynching, not black lynching. People who write comments like "Irish people were lynched" as if this is a profound or meaningful revelation are usually historically illiterate.

[@iangallagher4135]

@@WallStwizkid so the way the eleven Italian immigrants were killed weren’t as brutal as the African Americans?

[@WallStwizkid]

@@iangallagher4135 Were their corpses burned? Was it a spectacle lynching? If it was this is a rare example. Scholars have surveyed lynching data from the Great Lynching Era and have found only scant evidence that European immigrants ever experienced spectacle and ritualistic lynching; the norm was that Europeans were lynched as were native-born whites, and at comparable rates. To put it to you another way, even if the New Orleans lynching was consistent with black lynching, it is simply ahistorical to treat one example of one lynching as analytically decisive, and then use that to make spurious arguments about European immigrants having experienced similar abuse as black Americans (as is often the crux of the argument whenever non-historians bring up this subject on social media).

[@martin-valeriegrosso2760]

Sad. Interesting. Shocking to the conscience. How could this lack of humanity possibly happen? Egrigiously sad. Some parts of history must NOT repeat itself. God bless you all.

[@coreylevine8095]

Before this there were no mafia in America after this the mafia out of no where to get revenge

[@stephencindrich6787]

Wow! Had no idea.

[@isiahconrad6243]

They'd never do that for black ppl

[@aljenabi3230]

In the US long history of discrimination , 150 yrs ago heavily against Irish not allowed in restaurants or work in some Midwestern states, 100 yrs ago against Germans , for a long time till 30 yrs ago against Italians and here we go , internet didn’t solve this problem !

[@marvinsilverman4394]

There are also Italians living in South America and no one southamerican murdered them and there were never Italian mafias or anything like that in southamerica Only in a killer and genocide country like USA happen this sorry for my english

[@colosso7521]

In 19th Brazil some italians immigrants killed a farmer and one italian get murdered in a theater, but that was the only issues what happened in all country history.

[@colosso7521]

Only to count in 19th Brazil was a rich country, the italian death on theater was a protest not a robbery assault

[@alejandroperaltanunez2030]

​​@@colosso7521era um gramjero negro?.

[@alejandroperaltanunez2030]

Mentira. En paraguay asesinaron aun politico italiano.

[@truecrimespree9868]

@wwltv one of the largest, not THE largest. Interesting though.

[@paulstalone7811]

I'm Sicilian, 23 n me said zero African. 0

[@ebyortiz4791]

😆

[@zampieritto]

@@lordduke2959 they are Greeks and Normans

[@lilahdog568]

I highly doubt that. Everyone is a little African.

[@lilahdog568]

@@zampieritto sicilians are definitely part Arab. Just look at them.

[@GhostSal]

My family is from Palermo, my DNA test showed no African influence and a less than .1% Middle Eastern influence. Mostly it was Italy, France and Spain. Was actually pretty interesting because the test was specific to regions like Lazio and Toulouse.

[@SHorner-s8n]

They will tell you you'll get the fuckin message

[@jimcatanzaro7808]

Italian genocide is happening in America everyday you’re rights and holidays are being taken away we built this country along with brother Irish that where also poorly treated that’s why we get along so well When I was a young boy living in a middle class neighborhood I wasn’t allowed to play with some friends just because my dad was Italian

[@chiarac3833]

The Italians should have blocked the river. That's shameful what those people did.

[@freedomisthechoicesyoumake8594]

Now, Italians are proud WHITE Americans.. how ironic

[@DeRocco21]

and denigrated by the left

[@theresaperry441]

How barbaric

[@autismobinch135]

>Sicilians >White

[@imacolonelinbf2975]

we're not, thankfully

[@nomeacaso3893]

@@imacolonelinbf2975 e invece sì

[@bkboy8259]

@@imacolonelinbf2975 Sicilians are white, I'm sicilian

[@potamins9265]

Sicilians when you say they have nothing to do with the acient Romans

[@imacolonelinbf2975]

@@bkboy8259 bet you have brown eyes

[@sw1743]

Don't take my word for it as I could be wrong, but I heard that it was around this time that the word mafia came into common use and that the american citizens started to understand what the italian american mafia was. I may be wording it all wrong or I may be wrong in general and anyone can correct me if I am.

[@giusepperobertopiniaccio4449]

I'm italian and white af . I'm proud italian🇮🇹

[@paulriley6418]

Italians aren’t white like most Southern Europeans they have North African blood

[@paulriley6418]

@Richard Nobaz they are mixed not. Fully white

[@paulriley6418]

@Richard Nobaz no I mean mixed between different races so southern and Eastern European’s have mixed with Africans and Asians throughout history thus there tanned dark skin and dark eyes and hair.

[@paulriley6418]

@Richard Nobaz I’m not wrong it’s historical and genetic fact and the end of the day we all come from Africa anyway.

[@paulriley6418]

@Richard Nobaz I’m not talking about western I’m talking about Southern Europeans!

[@yoyo8303]

What happened when Italians do the same to Blacks.

[@ninpobudo3876]

These are Italian-Creoles 🇮🇹 not Italians! You folks don't understand our Creole Heritage

[@celtaciaclemment1229]

It's ok, they don't understand the Portuguese either. Brown Mediterranean-European heritage confuses most other types.

[@noahsherwood2445]

It was a mixed batch. Some were Italian-Creoles and others had recently arrived.

[@noahsherwood2445]

@Eros Delorenzi Uh, yes there is.

[@ninpobudo3876]

@Eros Delorenzi My granny was Choctaw-Creole, Italian-Creole and Irish-Creole. My grandad was German-Creole, French-Creole and Afro-Creole and Dominican-Creole (San Domingue) One does not have to be of African or French decent to be Creole! Fyi Creole doesn't mean mixed either! Again your family missy come from colonial Lousiana

[@ninpobudo3876]

@Eros Delorenzi Will firstly sir I'm not African American! I'm Louisiana-Creole these are two seperated groups and if you doubt know the difference read up on it! What are you taking about the Italians never mixed with the Indians? Many of people were mixing up however: you don't have to be mixed to be Creole. Most of my European DNA cones from Italy and France sir! You have no ideal what you're talking about! Again one doesn't have to be mixed to be Creole! In the Americas (out side of the U.S) cones from the Dominican Republic sir, following Cuba, and Brazil! Educate yourself sir

[@Che1980s]

Here strictly for the comment section 🍿🥱

[@imacolonelinbf2975]

​@scsyc bxcvbx germany lost

[@imacolonelinbf2975]

@scsyc bxcvbx because poltards are delusional

[@imacolonelinbf2975]

@scsyc bxcvbx cope

[@marshalllapenta7656]

They had it coming!

[@domochoa]

Who killa da chief 😂😂

[@christopher-ke9nj]

God damn

[@johnvercellone1988]

History says Columbus had three or four voyages from Spain to Hispaniola ( present haiti and Dominican Republic)there are records the crew he left behind on his return to Spain were given orders don't cause problems with natives which they dudnt,anyway none of them ever returned to Europe ..isn't it a stretch that his biggest expedition had no more than 160 that Columbus expeditions killed one million Indians.. Here's a fact about African slavery to the Carribean which existed for a century before arriving in USA from which half of all USA black slavery came from Carribean and not directly from Africa.And Spain was not first or second largest in Carribean african slavery,that was England and France. What caused the Holocaust of native Americans was diseases European briught to America,the first slaves on north America where white Europeans indentured servants .they were plagued with malaria which Europeans had brought to new world among others diseases small pox etc..what became very recognizable African slaves had immunity to malaria and could be expected to be slave labor for Decades

[@Highfive3395]

How monster

[@gold3084]

Maybe also due to them being Catholic.

[@muffinzlealta1865]

Napolitano

[@marty0346]

Yes, that was also our old president of the Italian republic.

[@YG-hx2pw]

Across the world? Not here, we dont care

[@AN-jz3px]

I want reparations god damnit

[@truecrimespree9868]

The families received reparations- 25k each, in 1892, which is bomb af during that time

[@wtfa2910]

Do you really think that this thing affected the world in 1891 really

[@marianopietrangeli9217]

In America in linciaggio era molto di moda iniizio secolo fino alla fine degli anni sessanta si linciavano i neri soprattutto negli stati del sud una pratica molto apprezzata dal potere bianco gli stati uniti dovrebbero commemorare tutte le vittime di questa pratica mostruosa

[@dallasisraelites4241]

the funny thing about this story they give you no name or images hum hiding something they were brown Italian men Israelites

[@titusgreatness1130]

Rzcillian

[@titusgreatness1130]

Strayne jilivea

[@papasmurf4264]

F

[@jamesfiaco4922]

💙judgment that is not physically, mentally, naturally financially and spiritually beneficial is useless therefore has no true value. Without judgment progress cannot be made. For no one can express or receive love or any other desired emotion in its entirety if the don't know themselves. We are all not created equal however we all have a equal obligation in living up to the pleasure, potential, and responsibility of femininity and masculinity. So don't miss the deadline on doing your best to become physically fit, mentally sound, and spiritually balanced being able to express physical freedom. Which can be accomplished through clean air, water, fitness, that specializes in overall functionality combined with high sources of nutrition organic non-genetically modified would be best. Plus formal education and real hands-on experience. When one learns the body's capabilities and limitations by fully engaging with all their bodies senses to their extreme limits in the most efficient way that is humanly possible. The subconscious then begins to naturally subconsciously systematically coincide with the mind-body souls spirit mother Earth nature and all the various different forms of life that live within this world and the most efficient way that is humanly possible. Thus yielding the best spiritual kickback for one's efforts accomplishments experiences. You might want to take these points to heart Considering the simple logic basic concept that if life is not free, why the hell would death be any cheaper? It's not the question the common, basic, average, normal man or woman may be able to wonder is what is the spiritual cost to one's own soul and spirit for freely living dying off having only used the smallest percentage of a fraction of the true potential they are first born with. Not to add insult to injury for the last hundred and 50 years or so the mass majority of the population from coast-to-coast globally more so here in America. has been living and dying yielding the worst spiritual kickback that has ever been manifested since the beginning of life only getting worse. And that has nothing to do with everybodys so-called charming personality and everything to do with the standards of quality pertaining to our air, water, foods, landscapes, working/living environment, every day home products, habitats, and ecosystems. This lack of comprehension conscious physical participation in solutions is ignorant beyond retarded (no offense to any disabled people was intended.) When you consider for the last 490 years Give or take we have had the manpower woman influence or vice versa to have created clean high paying jobs from coast-to-coast globally that would constantly consistently be improving upon and maintaining the quality of our life in such a manner. That the mass majority of the population from coast-to-coast globally would constantly consistently naturally, gradually, and systematically almost effortlessly start becoming stronger, smarter, healthier, happier, better off physically, mentally, and financially possibly spiritually then the previous generation. Now I would like to resurrect the wish and prayer I made prior to my 8th birthday which was to be held spiritually accountable to the statements I proclaim to the way I'm living personally and professionally. I guarantee you never see or hear another body, man or woman in power, persons of legal, religious authority, or leaders ever freely validate the statements they proclaim with that level of certainty one reason they don't have the best interest of the majority of the population's needs at heart a another reason could be they cum from a bloodline of cowards or simply have a lifestyle that suggests, confirms, and validates them as being feebleminded physically inadequate submissive subservient which it doesn't get any worse than that. One is genetically inherited and the other is a simple generic learned behavior. Quite possible to be a combination of these worst-case scenarios combined is one to say the least. Nonetheless either way it is physically, mentally, and spiritually useless to freely live and die in such a low quality manner. Especially if that ignorant stupidity, weak, lonely desperation stems from being soft, lazy, out of shape, over fed, undernourished, overworked, and underpaid with a dirty low-paying job that comes from outdated power sources, inferior materials, poisonous, toxic substances, pesticides, and chemicals that never change their killing composition. Which means simpletons whether it is a solid, liquid, or burnt off into our airways atmosphere as a vapor it is always going to be poisonous, debilitating, and deadly to the body at the same time polluting, corrupting, and devastating to mother Earth and all the various different forms of life that live within this world. There is no cash profit to be made in the demise of the planet. Thanks to those dirty low-paying jobs we are in the mist of environmental financial global collapse. The good news souls and spirits have paid out are picking up the tab on the end results of those dirty low-paying jobs And so much more. The even better news that the common, basic, average, normal man woman may be able to comprehend is souls and spirits have been are being managed, directed, maintained, and implemented with all the disease, sickness, illness, pain, suffering, injury, abuse, neglect, hunger, addiction, sadness, anger, and hyper- aggressive violent criminal conduct. That has been allowed to occur manifesting throughout the history of mankind into what it is today thanks to people like Donald Trump who have the false belief if the mass majority of the population is at their worst they will feel less afraid scared inferior to the true potentials of love, honor, and the creation of life. Here's the deal you're either part of the world solutions or exacerbating the planets problems there is no safe in between. Either way no matter how you look at it each and every moment of every life has been spiritually accounted for. S.R.F.