Italians, after being treated like serfs in rural america after the 1865 abolition of slavery, de facto replacing the hard labor African American slaves were inhumanely used for. Being grossly underpaid, mocked for their poverty and low social status, taunted for their dark skin, their perceived “subhumanity”, catholic religion, and their necessarily tight-knit community against a society that openly despised them – to the point of cheering the deaths of Italian migrants dying like animals on overpacked ships while trying to reach America to escape the most miserable conditions our country had ever known.
Italians, after being called degrading ethnical slurs for more than a century, the most pervasive of which was & is wop, literally meaning without papers – the first shout to be echoed in 21st america with the disgusting “alien immigrant” rhetoric used against Latin Americans.
Italians, after being targeted by the KKK as other European immigrants like Jewish people, poles and the irish, and of course African Americans:
Italians, after being described as part of a "promiscuous immigration… [of]…the filthy, wretched, lazy, criminal dregs of the meanest sections of Italy" (December 18, 1880, NYT’s editorial “Undesirable Emigrants”) and being the subject of a delightful immigration-scare spawning articles with not-at-all-incendiary titles like "Italians Coming in Great Numbers” and “Number of Immigrants Will Be Limited Only By Capacity of Liners” (April 17, 1921, always NYT)
Italians, after being called ”just a little worse than the Negro, being if anything filthier in their habits, lawless, and treacherous“ by actual democratic politicians in the 1920s, and seeing the media reinforce the idea of them being violent, ignorant, clannish, innately brutal men-beasts.
italians, after being on the receiving end of hate crimes as lynchings, often because they had dared to stand in small groups of no more than five italians, or for incredibly disgusting reasons like what motivated the lynching that happened in 1899 in Tallulah, Louisiana, when three italian-american shopkeepers were lynched because they had treated blacks in their shops the same as whites. A vigilante mob didn’t stop at the three, innocent men, but hanged five Italian Americans – the three shopkeepers, and two equally innocent bystanders.[17]
italians, after being on the receiving end of the LARGEST SINGLE MASS LYNCHING IN THE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, A HATE-CRIME SO VICIOUS IT STILL MAKES MY SKIN CRAWL AND WAS OPENLY CHEERED ON BY WHITE PROTESTANT AMERICANS, as you can see in this god-forsaken NYT article quoting: These sneaking and cowardly Sicilians, the descendants of bandits and assassins, who have transported to this country the lawless passions, the cut-throat practices, and the oath-bound societies of their native country, are to us a pest without mitigation. Our own rattlesnakes are as good citizens as they… Lynch law was the only course open to the people of New Orleans to stay the issue of a new license to the Mafia to continue its bloody practices
italians, after being targeted as potential socialist threats on the basis of…I don’t know, us liking the concept of people having enough to eat, I guess, and being put in camps with the Japanese and the Germans during WWII:
FUCK ALL WHITE SUPREMACISTS, ALL OF THEM, ESPECIALLY IF THEY’RE OF ITALIAN DESCENT. WE WEREN’T MOCKED, OVER-WORKED, MISTREATED & KILLED FOR YOU TO PLAY BUDDY-BUDDY WITH FUCKING WHITE PROTESTANT NEO-NAZIS.NO WHITE SUPREMACIST HAS THE RIGHT TO USE OUR NATIONAL MYTHOLOGY, NOR THAT OF THE GREEK PEOPLE.
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