On Italians and 'Whitewashing'
proudblackconservative ended up making a pretty awesome point just now, and I wanted to elaborate on that.
If anyone has gone and seen the movie ‘Unbroken’, one of the moments that really hit me hard was when Louis was being harassed and bullied for being a ‘greasy dago wop’. Now, he was a pale skinned, blue eyed, European boy. But Italians were once considered to be the lowest forms of life in America.
In fact, during the KKK’s second wave, when it swelled to nearly 3 million members, their main policy was not anti-black sentiments, but rather, anti-Catholic ones. Their primary targets were Irish and Italian people.
And America got on board with it — On board with the mass-deportation and extermination of Italians and Irish Catholics. If you look a little further back in American history, you’ll see that the largest public mass-lynching occurred in Louisiana and was of Italian people.
For the longest time, despite the fact that we were white, Italians were treated horribly in society. The reason why so many Italians are skilled tradespeople or own their own business is because it was historically impossible for them to get work with other people.
But I think equally as important to note is that Italians worked damn hard to change stereotypes that existed about them. Out of all the immigrant groups, I’d say Italians are the most patriotic to the new places they call home.
My nonna was as Italian as they come. She was like… Neon-Italian. But she still kept the small, paper Canadian flag she received at her citizenship ceremony tucked in the palm cross she had in the kitchen.
My point in saying all of this is: Social Justice Warriors, when faced with the truths and facts of anti-white discrimination, respond by refusing to acknowledge the group being oppressed was white.
Italians are white. We’re European. We’ve suffered greatly as a people. We’ve contributed immensely to the world as a people.
We are white. And we have one of the most enamouring cultures of all the people in the world.
Deal with it.
