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@AngryNegativeHistoryProject
Жыл бұрын
I like how feelings based your videos are. There's some people that teach history for the love of history, and there's others that have an agenda. Kudos to your great research. I'm going to go burn my American flag now. Hahaha I'm going to base my next video on how beautiful you are too, should I make it subjective or objective? Either the next video or the one after. I promise. Thanks for sharing
@NezterBedford
Жыл бұрын
Greetings NYTN! I'm just learning of this history of Columbus Day on your channel. More and more everyday, many of us feel so robbed of American history. I too am surprised why was the grotesque history of America suppressed so much. Knowledge truly does liberate our minds. Give us a chance to learn the truth to move forward. Love this channel.❤
@johnnyearp52
Жыл бұрын
I just learned this from you!
@novemberecho3807
Жыл бұрын
Today. This video. I enjoy your videos for the history and want to hear more, good or bad.
@nytn
Жыл бұрын
please don’t burn the American flag! America is a great nation and I know that because I’m allowed to make videos critiquing her and not get sent to prison. that’s not true other places
@brianclark4040
Жыл бұрын
I am familiar with the history of lynchings of black Americans and other non-white peoples in the U.S. But I never learned about the lynchings of these Italian-Americans and Italian nationals! It is clear that the US has a shameful history of extrajudicial violence and intolerance of different people. I have been against celebrating Columbus as a figurehead for colonialism and genocide. However, I am ambivalent now knowing what the Columbus Day holiday meant and may still mean for Italian-Americans. As always your videos are thought provoking and appreciated.
@lucianomezzetta4332
Жыл бұрын
Charity begins at home , Brian.
@fritolaid6805
9 ай бұрын
A lot of Italian Americans want the holiday changed to Garibaldi day as Garibaldi was a decolonizer and actually Italian and not Spanish. Italians were listed as black in Alabama up until the 1970’s
@olg06
8 ай бұрын
@@fritolaid6805 "Columbus" WAS indeed Italian he just sailed under the Spanish flag. He never set foot in what is now the U.S. territory. He set foot in the Caribbean Islands. His burial/monument is in the Dominican Republic.
@fritolaid6805
8 ай бұрын
Italy was created until 1862 he was Genoan but sailed for spain, lived in a spanish terrirtoty and his grandkids are spanish so hes spanish and hispanics have claimed him. @@olg06
@cjc2
Жыл бұрын
I remember bringing this up to an Italian American friend in college many years ago. He was actually a bit offended, said he never heard of that…said Italians are white. I guess some people find it hard to accept sad and terrible realities from the past.
@rec166
Жыл бұрын
The Italians I was in high school with in New Orleans do not consider themselves white at all. If you ask any Italian in southeastern Louisiana if they are white most if not all will tell you they are not white.
@nytn
Жыл бұрын
that's really interesting
@AngryNegativeHistoryProject
Жыл бұрын
Yeah the USA would be terrified to battle Italy. Good point. So they did whatever they could to save themselves because isn't had an incredibly fearsome army
@Pwn3540
Жыл бұрын
In my experience any Italian or Italian American you tell this to online would get offended by it and rave on about em being white, even when they're clearly brown.
@AngryNegativeHistoryProject
Жыл бұрын
@@Pwn3540 Italians are white. Some of their skin is dark from when they were raped by Muslim Arab and African invasions.
@EyEReign
Жыл бұрын
I had no idea that Italian Americans were lynched. My heart breaks for the families of those who were murdered this way. Thank you for sharing this information.
@Nicole-vq9zm
Жыл бұрын
Danielle, every time I watch one of your videos, I say to myself, “This woman is doing absolutely beautiful work.”
@nytn
Жыл бұрын
Wow, thank you! That is such a generous compliment.
@happytosti7715
Жыл бұрын
Interesting to me as growing up as a 3rd generation American Italian and learning now the history. I can’t help to feel a bit angry that this was never a topic in school. We never learned about this and the multi other acts of discrimination and exploitation. As I’m traveling through my journey for my dual citizenship with Italy I am unravel documents I can now clearly see why certain things happened a certain times. Thank you so much for your videos. I have shared them with my family and friends. They have helped me to open doors and ask questions.
@SeasideDetective2
Жыл бұрын
I imagine going back in time and confronting the writers of history textbooks about their omissions of episodes like this one. I'd guess that they'd respond that hate crimes are, well, crimes, and thus the doing of rogue individuals, and so of no special political significance. They'd probably say that if the textbooks are going to discuss lynchings, they'd have to discuss rape, robbery, arson, and prostitution as well.
@elleanna5869
Жыл бұрын
@@SeasideDetective2 history research is an ongoing process, I 'd rather blame modern teachers and text writers who know better and have all proper solid data, yet they insist on some kind of "narrative". I saw a video where a (black) boy asked a (white) teacher why in US schools slavery and racism and history in general are so poorly studied. Fueling huge misunderstandings that lead to more social hatred instead of more social justice. The teacher embarassed answer was that school in the US it's more about cherry picking what's considered "relevant" for US society ... An approach that today is highly debatable . History is about facts and context, not about cherry picking according to narrative and hiding / changing the tale. I am rather concerned that given the big influence US have via social and media the US not fully honest approach to history will prevail, making intellectually honest people and researchers lives even more difficult than usual🙄
@ztellers27
Жыл бұрын
Oh, you don't say? Welcome to my world!
@jimbeam-ru1my
Жыл бұрын
"We never learned about this" And you still haven't. this chick has completely distorted the event. the 11 italians were mafioso that had murdered a DA then bribed and threatened the juries to get acquitted.
@happytosti7715
Жыл бұрын
@@jimbeam-ru1myyour proof or research?
@batya7
Жыл бұрын
I am absolutely stunned silent by this revelation 😮. Why haven't I heard of this? What actions can we take to get this information you are uncovering into school curricula? My DNA test confirmed my adoptee father had an Italian parent. I would have been stunned even if I hadn't discovered my Italian roots. Whether due to politics or prejudice, there is no place for hatred due to anyone's race, religion, national origin, and other personal measures. I'm a Jew and my own family experienced pogroms, exclusion, and unspeakable horrors due to unwarranted hatred. There are no words. I pray we will become a nation where people are judged solely by their actions and intentions.
@nytn
Жыл бұрын
Im stunned by it still, and I dont know how to get this information out. I hope folks share it and take interest. I have the same hopes for our nation. But we cant "get past" some of these racial issues that persist if they remain hidden.
@Jenjen-qc5eq
Жыл бұрын
I find American history is all about distorting and bending the truth when it comes to their history. I knew about the eleven Italians that were lynched and I am British. Italians experienced racism in the UK too at one time, they were referred to as 'greasy'. A British-Italian woman explained that when she was at school in the UK during the 40s she was called the n-word because she was dark-skinned, both her parents are Italians and she is not mixed with Black. She went on to explain that when 'West Indians', ie Caribbean, Caribbean people started to arrive in the UK during the 50s she found herself gravitating towards them and going to their parties etc. because she felt more accepted by Blacks. Janis Joplin, the blues singer experienced something similar, she was rejected by her own Whites because she was deemed 'unattractive' and she too felt at home and more accepted by Blacks.
@AngryNegativeHistoryProject
Жыл бұрын
Everyone is a victim. I talk about it in my videos. Africans had it the worst and still do to this day with Islam in Africa
@johnnyearp52
Жыл бұрын
@@AngryNegativeHistoryProjectLots of people are more than just victims though. That for me is just one part of my identity.
@AngryNegativeHistoryProject
Жыл бұрын
@@johnnyearp52 I identify as a victim too though. I talk about it in my early videos. I don't talk much about myself or subjective stuff in my videos, but my next videos I'll try to throw in some of that. Just for fun. Because I know people gravitate towards feelings more than the fact of things most of the time. My next video is going to be on women. So I'm going to be subjective just for the sake of being fun. Then I'll of course talk about victemhood and stuff. But I don't know yet how I'll tie male victim to female victims yet. Haha a lot to think about
@johnnyearp52
Жыл бұрын
@@AngryNegativeHistoryProject I am more into surviving and hopefully thriving. I would assume males and females both experience similar feelings when victimized even if society expects us to demonstrate them differently.
@Mehki227
Күн бұрын
I dated an Italian guy. His preference were black women and other women of color. He was short and fat and black women didn't care. I'm married to a German-Hungarian American. He's disabled and he too was more accepted by black women, so it's his preference. Plus he's just attracted to black women. Been married for 33 years.
@michaelpisani5962
Жыл бұрын
Excellent point. More people need to know about this lynching, and why Columbus Day became a national holiday.
@Doge811
Жыл бұрын
Ok..... But that also means that Columbus day was made an holiday to promote tolerance.............. It's a "woke" thing.
@Doge811
Жыл бұрын
@@etruscancivilization woke stands still for inclusion and tolerance and columbus day was made exactly for that, ignorance is another thing and the same people very easily fall for conspiracy theories that have no fundament in reality........like you know Etruscan civilization being black and being the true Romans..........
@GhostSal
Жыл бұрын
@@Doge811Etruscans contributed to Ancient Roman civilization BUT they are not the “true” Romans. Romans had their own culture and language that was distinct from the Etruscans. DNA evidence shows Romans and Greeks share a common ancestor. Romans spread their language and culture throughout Europe and the Mediterranean. Without Romans there would be no Romance languages and no one alive today would be calling themselves “Latino”. Italian ancestors spread technology, art, philosophy, and many cultural contributions we see in other countries today. Also, Etruscans weren’t “bļack” and had ranges in skín tone, which is evident in the art they left behind. Modern conceptions of race are unhelpful when discussing the ancient world. When someone is described as “błack” in ancient text, often the word itself is a miss translation and the original word meant dark or something else. Why this is important is think of India, you have people there that range in color from very pale to darker than many “błack” Afrícans. So describing someone’s skín color as “błack” doesn’t mean they are what we consider today to be racíally błack. Something else you should know is skín variation from black to whíte have existed since before humans separated from our closest ancestral relatives.
@justindantonio257
9 ай бұрын
@@etruscancivilization The Etruscans ancestors were from Asia Minor, they actually looked like the figures you see in there artwork, the Romans were a tribe that immigrated next to them they called themselves the Latins.
@jeromemckenna7102
Жыл бұрын
I knew that Columbus Day was created to improve relations with the Italian American community in the US, but not much more until this video.
@GhostSal
Жыл бұрын
Yeah, they definitely were trying to smooth over relations with Italy because tensions were so high they thought Italy might go to war.
@GiacintoGia
Жыл бұрын
I love you for your honesty and your way of presenting the truth !
@sarahharvey7571
4 күн бұрын
Back here again a year later, thank you for this! ❤️🔥🫶🏻
@TheRealZarp
Жыл бұрын
I stumbled on your channel a couple weeks ago and have been casually watching your videos. First I want to say that you are doing great work and I love your passion for history and genology. I am a Black American (descendant of slaves). My mom's family is from South Carolina and my dad's family is originally from Louisiana. I did ancestryDNA testing a while back and found that I have Italian heritage (it's a small percent). Were there a lot of Italians immigrating to Lousiana, and if so, were some of them integrating with the local native Black American population? Just asking because I've been curious where that italian heritage could've come from and my test results do specifically say "southern italy".
@nytn
Жыл бұрын
Yes, that is absolutely what was happening. It's so great that it showed up on your test. The Southern Italians took many of the jobs that were formerly done by enslaved people and Southern Italians moved into many of the same neighborhoods where folks of African ancestry resided and they often lived and worked together in Louisiana.
@TheRealZarp
Жыл бұрын
@@nytnThank you for responding. Yes. It definitely showed up in my DNA results. I definitely always had a feeling that it was from my Dad's side. There were stories of there being a white distant "great" relative on that side but that's about all I knew. My grandfather was a lighter-skinned black man, growing up kids thought he was actually white. He looked as if he could have been a Southern Italian. Thank you again.
@KiKiMontoya2
Жыл бұрын
Amazing!! My great grandfather was born and raised in Southern Italy as well! I have 2 cousins with Italian in their DNA test. I have a hard time tracking down my great grandfather even tho I have his name. Good luck to you finding your past relatives!
@nytn
Жыл бұрын
I would love to hear if you ever find out more about that side! Might be an incredible story. I plan to make a video about that relationship, in my research I read an anecdote where Sicilians began to arouse suspicion when White southerners overheard African Americans, who worked in tandem with Sicilians on southern plantations, address Sicilians by their first names. They were concerned that the two groups were becoming too close. LOL
@phatmonkey11
Жыл бұрын
The Italians, black people, and Irish all lived around the French Quarter at that point in history. I just got my DNA and looks like I have both Northern Africa and Nigerian ancestors, though I make no case for it, lol! It's probably due to my Sicilian ancestry. My GG-father lived in the French Quarter, where he died after being beaten to death a couple months after this lynching. An interesting fact she didn't mention is that the lynchers were apparently Irish and black - 2 groups that had been getting lynched in the area already. Hurt people hurt people.
@keisha4620
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for posting...I appreciate it 💔
@jameskilcoyne1955
Жыл бұрын
My family heritage/history is Irish-Italian. My dad's family immigrated from Ireland in the 1880's and my mom's family came from Italy (Sicily) in the 1890's. I was born in New Orleans and while I never had to experience discrimination personally (although I did experience religious discrimination later in my life) I know my ancestors did. I don't blame anyone living today, don't hold anyone accountable for what my great grandparents, in particular, had to endure. It was an unfortunate period in history that thankfully is just that...HISTORY. BTW, I am a tour guide at Melrose Plantation in Louisiana. Yes, as a plantation it has some "unfortunate" history too. But, it also has a remarkable history, one of people overcoming hardships and building an incredible life and story. It too is part of history, of Americana, all of which has contributed to what I think is the greatest country on Earth. We are not perfect, our history is far from perfect, but here we are...together.
@lucianomezzetta4332
Жыл бұрын
my ass that it is JUST history.
@Mehki227
Күн бұрын
@@lucianomezzetta4332Exactly! History has a long arm. It's always usual suspects who dismiss American racism as well, it's just history. My abusive husband would say the same crap. Why are you bringing up (something me did to me just yesterday), that's history now! Same manipulating gaslighting bs!🤬
@jcortese3300
Жыл бұрын
Your every video is a much needed dose of insight and compassion.
@fireofhislove3395
Жыл бұрын
I've learned valuable information from you.
@christopherb1483
3 ай бұрын
YOU are a Super Hero of sorts! Your work brings aknowlement of our differences WHICH MAKE US ALL THE SAME! God Bless you. I want to tell you so much more... My Dad got his job at Black School in Pacoima in 1965 because of his appearance HA! THANK you.
@terrytari1891
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for telling us about murder of 11 Italians in New Orleans!
@stephenfelix4383
Жыл бұрын
I think the nuance is that most of the Anti-Italian attacks were almost all in the southern US where most Sicilians settled the majority of Italians settled in the Northeast so that’s how the narrative is controlled because historically Italians have done very well in the NE part of the states. Around the same time as the, the horrific lynchings in (the south) The Bronx in 1820s-1880s Italians were very prosperous and climbing the economic ladders. Already making Little Italy what it is today.
@lucianomezzetta4332
Жыл бұрын
There were not many Italians in the Bronx, Stefano, in 1820. Where are you getting this nonsense? Official records show that between 1820 and 1870 25000 Italians immigrated to the USA , not to the Bronx, but to the entire country. That is 25000 people in 50 years!
@stephenfelix4383
Жыл бұрын
@@lucianomezzetta4332 I work at the Bronx Historical society and I looking at the property records and land deeds going based on last names , Also Italy wasn’t even a unified country until 1861 . Before that you had mostly Northern Italian migrating over a few dozen or hundred is enough to form a small community.
@lucianomezzetta4332
Жыл бұрын
@@stephenfelix4383 I stand by what I wrote. The Bronx in 1869 was not teeming with thousands of well off Italians from anywhere. The mass migrations came later.
@Mehki227
Күн бұрын
@@stephenfelix4383My Italian friend lived in an Italian enclave in The Bronx and this was in the 90's. You're not wrong. A Bronx Tale the movie was made back in the early 1990's about Italians living in The Bronx. You're not wrong. Immigrants came through Ellis Island and many settled in NYC, including The Bronx. The Bronx also has/had large Jewish areas. I lived in The Bronx back in the societies and 70's and still went there in the 80's,90's, and early 2000's The other guy has no idea what he's talking about.
@swampfox65x90
4 ай бұрын
Thank you, so many people don’t know this and when I brought it up in school during a Columbus Day debate (if Columbus Day should be a holiday) I was bullied for explaining this and was told I was lying. People need to do their research first.
@jw66wid62
Жыл бұрын
I have just recently found out through DNA that I am half Italian on my paternal side. I did not know this so it was a shocking but made sense to me. Hard to explain. Just wanted to say thanks for all your interesting history facts :)
@renatomacchi2195
Жыл бұрын
It's incorrect to say that you are "Half Italian". Being Italian is not a Race but is a Nationality which encompasses the knowledge of the language, history and culture Now if you were White and Black then you could say that you're "Half White and half Black". Just as an example. Got it?
@jw66wid62
Жыл бұрын
@@renatomacchi2195 yeah , thanks for educating me, hoping that makes you feel better
@Doge811
Жыл бұрын
@@renatomacchi2195 it's an ethnicity.
@GhostSal
Жыл бұрын
@@renatomacchi2195”whíte” is a generic meaningless term, it tells nothing about the person, other than whatever your preconceived notions of what that means. All European people are not the same people, not the same culture, languages are not from the same origin, and don’t all have the same physical characteristics (Europeans range from having a very pale skín color to an olive Mediterranean skín color, from light błonde to błack hair. and facial features that are noticeably distinct to region). There is a comprehensive DNA study led by Oxford that shows Europeans in fact have two separate distinct lineages.
@AlexThunderwolve
Жыл бұрын
I remember I had a teacher in high school that looked Arab and I was shocked to learn that she was Italian because I had Italian classmates in middle school and they were all white.
@jimmyalfonda3536
Жыл бұрын
Really? Most of my Italian classmates in school looked indistinguishable from the arabs and Albanians in my class. Brown skin, black or dark brown hair. Only a few were fair.
@asturiasceltic3183
Жыл бұрын
I have met many Arabians saying they are Italians. Either they are recent arrivals to Italy or they are trying to pass so white Americans will accept them. They also try to pass as Spaniards. I know damn well how Spaniards look like and it ain't Arabians.
@asturiasceltic3183
Жыл бұрын
All the Italians I ever met looked like Italians (white Europeans) and not Arabians. Then the last 25 years, I saw more Arabians opening up Italian restaurants in Los Angeles and London. My friend who is Italian saw it too and thought it was ridiculous.
@asturiasceltic3183
Жыл бұрын
@@jimmyalfonda3536 it's the features not the coloring that makes someone look European or Arab. Al Pacino does not look like no Arab to me but Roman mixed with Celtic or Germanic. He looks like a renaissance classical painting. Look at Italian paintings and sculpture..they look European and nothing Arabic
@Doge811
Жыл бұрын
Guy a lot of Arab are similar.... italians are whiter on avarage but still there is sovrapposition with a lot of people expecially if the Arabs cut their beards.
@louismilum8663
Жыл бұрын
Because the narrative is always black verses white and the indigenous people when convenient. I honestly believe that the people in power wants to keep us separated and hating on each other, because it's profitable and easier to rule us all. In reality, history is complex and not as clear cut as one would think which makes your videos so important, because we need to respect each other as human beings and realize that we have many more things in common than we have differences...
@lucianomezzetta4332
Жыл бұрын
YOU GOT IT! DIVIDE AND CONQUER.
@terrima4064
Жыл бұрын
That's why they spin out fake news constantly, to keep us entertained so they don't have to report what they are REALLY doing. Come on people, pay your taxes and your freedom and security are protected- another form of slavery. It never ended, we are all slaves of different colors.
@Mehki227
Күн бұрын
Ding ding, ding ding ding! Bingo!
@morgainenyc
Жыл бұрын
President Benjamin Harrison instead of prosecuting the criminals who slaughtered the Italians he gave them a holiday. A form of appeasement. It’s funny to see some Italians proud of Columbus Day.
@nytn
Жыл бұрын
I think it's important for everyone on both sides to know the origin story for the holiday and that it had nothing to do with Columbus. The conversation changes a little for sure
@dominicbriganti5710
Жыл бұрын
The guys who were lynched were mafiosi.
@nytn
Жыл бұрын
these men were all found NOT GUILTY. I don’t want to live in a country where you can be found not guilty and then lynched by a mob anyway
@Press1for
Жыл бұрын
@@nytntry and explain to people you live on stolen land and they laugh at you. I just shrug and laugh at them....
@dominicbriganti5710
Жыл бұрын
@@nytn Two of the jurors were caught accepting bribes from mafiosi (and subsequently indicted).
@jojohns1949
Жыл бұрын
Bless you for telling the truth The federal Government did give Italian america One holiday to look forward towards Now they want to take it away . The mass lynching was a big stain on America and it was cover up for years. Just like Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti case I hope you do a insight on Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti and how unfair the justice system was toward italian Americans
@nytn
Жыл бұрын
I need to research their story, I remember learning about them in 9th grade and it was pretty one sided
@jojohns1949
Жыл бұрын
@@nytn Thank you I believe you will give a fair and balanced account And will come to the same conclusion as I did Anti Italian hate drove there convictions
@fabioapolito5953
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for this.
@James-oi7mz
Жыл бұрын
I didn't know the connection between Columbus Day and the lynchings. Breaks my heart as a person with Italian origins. I could see changing the name of the holiday to reflect Italian American History with a much less controversial character,
@nytn
Жыл бұрын
I think Italian Americans definitely should have at least a day, but we need to reassess this for sure
@Doge811
Жыл бұрын
Guy America is literally named after an Italian 🤷♂️ and look at the government buildings.... There are Roman symbols even inside the senate.
@jcortese3300
Жыл бұрын
YES -- I've often wished it had been named for Mother Cabrini, who was all about support and love of immigrants.
@GhostSal
Жыл бұрын
@@nytnI’m Sicilian and faced discrimination myself in my own lifetime for not being considered “whíte”… personally I don’t want a day. Why? I’d rather they teach the actual history in school as objectively as possible and not sugarcoat it. Also, so many have suffered, should there also be a Japanese-American day? A Jewish-American day? A Greek-American day? I don’t know, all that seems trivial and just an attempt to placate everyone.
@nytn
Жыл бұрын
This is insightful, thank you. I have been doing my best to learn hidden history including the Italian-American experience. I'll leave my ever-growing playlist link here! kzitem.info/door/PLvzaW1c7S5hRqNP0hfcOXGRuhqgJ0nPZ1&feature=shared@@GhostSal
@lydiapicano8806
Жыл бұрын
Thank you very much for bringing this to light. I learned of this recently through a very good friend of mine. The collective thought today is that only 1 group was discriminated against even to the point of being unjustly hanged. All groups have faced their share of suffering in this country. If we are to learn from history then it needs to be taught in it's entirety the good, the bad the ugly and dare I say inconvenient. Only in this way can we change the world for the better. 🌹
@lydiapicano8806
Жыл бұрын
@@davruck1 I didn't say that and believe me how black people were treated was very very wrong. What I meant was that all new groups suffered some more some less. The problem is that especially when you watch TV it's so terribly distorted. This is done on purpose to create division among the races so that everyone can be controlled more easily.
@JustFluffyQuiltingYarnCrafts
Жыл бұрын
😲 Every time I watch these videos that uncover another ugly truth I lose faith in the "accepted" history that is taught in this country. There are so many hidden truths out there and I thank you, Danielle, for taking us on this journey of discovery. ♥
@user-vg4cg4uw9c
Жыл бұрын
My grandfather (he was born in Sicily) started working in a coal mine at age 15 (1920, W. Virginia)
@GhostSal
Жыл бұрын
My family too, Palermo.
@onegentletouch
Жыл бұрын
Powerful 🔥🔥🔥 I knew of Italian lynchings but not this in particular. I’m curious if this is a part of history that the average Italian wants known 🤔 I would think it quite edifying for everyone if it were added to the general curriculae
@Doge811
Жыл бұрын
Do you realize that this means that Columbus day is in a way an holiday to promote tolerance....... it was born as a "woke" thing.....
@lucianomezzetta4332
Жыл бұрын
Fat chance.
@erics9213
Жыл бұрын
I've learned that the supression of historical facts is nothing new in US history. If the truth were put out from the get go, we would all be mostly ok with Columbus day. This is an awesome revelation and thank you.
@billdimasi3675
10 ай бұрын
Very interesting. Thank you. My grandparents emigrated to the U.S. from Sicily. I am fortunate to have a cousin and sister that have done an incredible amount of research into our family history. It's interesting and sometimes fascinating to learn why and how they came here, births and deaths, where they lived, and how they lived. Growing up we thought of ourselves as Americans with a Sicilian heritage. We never thought of ourselves as second class citizens. However, like people that came here from other countries, Sicilians/Italians were discriminated against. During WWII many Japanese people were arrested and put in internment camps, but many people are not aware this was also done to Italians and Germans. After the war started the FBI actually came to my grandparents home to question them, and possible arrest them, but left when the saw pictures of my father and my four uncles in US Navy and US A rmy uniforms. If you have an interest in learning more about the Italian/Sicilian emigration to the U.S. check-out the book, "Axeman of New Orleans: The True Story", by Miriam C. Davis.
@aionbiabia
Жыл бұрын
Back in the 90s, I used to work with an old Italian lady as her care giver, she was the daughter of Italian immigrants but born in Pennsylvania, she told me that in the 30's her family suffered a lot due to poverty because of the great depression. Then in the 40's there was an economic boom and happily she left her town in PA behind and headed to NYC to look for work. There was work literally everywhere, people walked out of their businesses to offer you work as you walked by on the street. As she started to look for work, she found herself not getting hired, wondering why she was told by a secretary friend of hers "No one is gonna hire an Italian, look at your last name, look at your darker complexion, it's obvious you're not a real American to their eyes". She changed her name to Wilson, and dyed her hair, suddenly job interviews started pouring in! She remembered those days bitterly, they marked her and made her very angry towards white America for a long long time. It was only around the 70s that she suddenly started to be seen as white, she never really understood how it happened but she went from a Dago to a white lady from the suburbs.
@shockwave4742
Жыл бұрын
I've seen another video by this uploader, about Italian-Americans becoming white, and she also mentions New Orleans in that video. From what she says, it sounds as if New Orleans should be a sacred city for Italians. I'm not Italian myself, but I find it exciting to learn the pivotal role New Orleans has played in the history of Italian-Americans.
@nytn
Жыл бұрын
New Orleans was the center of a lot of American history for a long time. It's pretty incredible
@Becca4.2
Жыл бұрын
It is for families where stories are important. More people still came to the US through the NE, but by 1920 there were 300k italians that came through nola. Considering the total population of nola in 1920 was less than 400k, that's a huge presence. Now, most of these folks were little more than visitors to new orleans but what it does mean is there are a lot more folks in the gulf coast/south that are descended from Italians than they realize. And for those that mostly came from the port of new orleans, they're mostly not just Italian, but Sicilian.
@terrytari1891
Жыл бұрын
NYTN: Your videos are GREAT! I have learned a lot! You & are very smart & very beautiful Outside & Inside!
@nytn
Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much!
@furiogiunta7886
Жыл бұрын
I always looked at Columbus Day as more of an Italian-American day, much like St. Patrick's Day as an Irish-American day. I never heard of these lynchings. Interesting. Thanks, great video.
@BXMKE
Жыл бұрын
When growing up in Country Club, Bronx, NYC. I never knew the origin of Columbus day like why we celebrate it. But, I always knew how we celebrated it and what the celebration was for; my father always told me it was a big day for the Italians. I also learned that Christopher Columbus was Genoese(in northern Italia), but what people don't know is that Christopher Columbus wasn't evil or oppressing people, those are lies that came from the Anti-Catholic English.(along with La Florida's history it's not taught in USA because America was English back then and the English heavily persecuted Catholics) When Christopher Columbus met tribes like the Taino in Hispanola and the Appalachie in Florida, those tribes actually peacefully and willingly converted to the Catholic faith as they already believed in a one God and adored his creation(they just didn't know Jesus or anything about the bible outside of Genesis) also in Florida Spain for the first few hundred years never claimed it as their land but rather a land that they sent missionaries and a few settlers to help and protect their allies the Appalacie. Anyway the Tainos and Appalachies actually wanted Spanish military as their neighbors the Carabs were cannibals like the Aztecs and killed many of their people. La Florida was relativelly peaceful Thanksgiving setting up until the British gave the Cherokee guns and other weapons to conquer the indigenous tribes in the region. The Cherokee and English invaded La Florida and killed/tortured/and crucified many Spanish and Appalacie(mainly the Appalachie as Spainiards were the minority) there is diaries from the Appalacie tribe of a Appalachie priest trying to protect a pregnant mother but the Cherokee cut her open and killed the baby gruesomely. The Cherokee were not friendly and them along with the English tried conquering everyone who wasn't their allies(them and their allies became the 'white race'). There is much more hidden history of early America with many tribes but if you're interested search up the truth of Spanish La Florida and the Appalachie tribe.
@Google-McGoogle wow that's a mixture of northern Indian-American tribes. Also Italian idk if that's common or not because similarly my friend is Cherokee and Sicilian. Very cool in my opinion.
@urpreposterous682
Жыл бұрын
@BXMKE Once you stated Columbus stepped on Florida land, I knew you didn't know what you are talking about. Columbus didn't step foot on North America. The closest he got was the Bahamas 🇧🇸 in 1492. Ponce de León discovered & named Florida, La Florida.
@BXMKE
Жыл бұрын
@urpreposterous682 you do realize he went all over the Caribbean in a period of years right?(not everywhere) but Columbus landed in Hispanola and made good comments of the natives there.(there are witnesses and historical evidence, mostly diaries and traded goods.) He was talking about the Taino. Then in La Florida(you might be right in it couldve been another Spaniard) made great comments on the Appalachies and they already believed in one God just obv not Christ until they converted. But most of Spanish/Catholic history in places like USA is distorted as it was under England and later Britain which justified the genocides and many other acts.
@urpreposterous682
Жыл бұрын
@BXMKE I do realize that in subsequent voyages, he did land on other Caribbean islands, especially Hispaniola. Others he named just by seeing them. He never stepped foot on North America land, especially LA Florida. He might have stepped on South American land via Venezuela. He described the Taino Indians as peaceful and easily able to be converted to Christianity and enslaved. So, he wasn't ever nice to the peaceful Taino Indians. Because he didn't find any riches that he promised the Spanish Crown, instead he brought enslaved Taino Indians.
@jacquelinerice8924
Жыл бұрын
There are so many aspects of American history that have been eliminated because it would cause people to see this country with all its flaws and not as the beacon on the hill. At one time Italians were viewed with the same level of discrimination directed at Blacks. It was ok for Blacks and Italians to marry because Italians were not seen as white. Those racist whites, who were in control, would have killed any Black man who had the nerve to marry a white woman, particularly in the south. Of course as time went on that changed. It takes a little digging but true American history is so interesting and worth investigating. Lynching was a way to control the victim group as was also done with Blacks. To keep people from stepping “out of their place.” Shameful, but yet another aspect of true American history. Thanks for another interesting and informative video.
@gloriathomas3245
Жыл бұрын
While true in America, in Spain Columbus Day does carry special meaning. In Spain Columbus Day isn't just a national holiday, there's a nationalistic celebration thanks largely in Franco
@salperricone2916
2 ай бұрын
I live in New Orleans and writing a detailed forensic of the case.
@terrytari1891
Жыл бұрын
Great Job, chao!!
@nytn
Жыл бұрын
Thank you! 😃
@terrytari1891
Жыл бұрын
@@nytn RIP, for the death of the Italians died in the South!
@gianni206
11 ай бұрын
"history has too many narrators" brilliant
@lucianomezzetta4332
Жыл бұрын
Finally the fact that the greatest number of people in a lynching were Italians is beginning to be known. If you do not want to know your heritage or what your blood relatives went through in the USA then you are doomed to never know who you are.
@penitentiaryofdreams
3 күн бұрын
My mother was born in the 20's. Both her parents were from Italy and would tell me stories about the discrimination she and her family felt.
@ZendreGlymph
Жыл бұрын
Thanks Danielle for bringing this hidden history for the forefront. Sorry these Italian were killed smh 😢.
@makeyyyy7890
Жыл бұрын
This is why they're don't want CRT in school. They're don't want Americans know this kind of history. Sad but true
@PhantomMagician1846
3 күн бұрын
very informative video. I just learned about this event today. I think the solution to the divide is to keep Columbus and make indigenous people's day some other day. America is more divided then ever and replacing Columbus Day with something else just divideds the USA even more
@lukewarmwater5320
10 ай бұрын
So weird how Buffy St. Marie's son said in a twitter post that the reason she passed herself off as Native American was to stop being harrassed as an Italian in the 1950s and 60s..
@goodtoGoNow1956
Жыл бұрын
Video title is in error. Columbus day was celebrated long before 1892 and the day was chosen because it is the anniversary of the day he set foot on the islands. So it is wrong to say he had nothing to do with it.
@GhostSal
Жыл бұрын
March 14, 1891 RIP Antonio Bagnetto RIP James Caruso RIP Loreto Comitis RIP Rocco Geracci RIP Joseph P. Macheca RIP Antonio Marchesi RIP Pietro Monasterio RIP Emmanuele Polizzi RIP Frank Romero RIP Antonio Scaffidi RIP Carlo Traina After the horrific incident, hundreds of Italian immigrants, the majority of which were innocent of any wrongdoing and not suspects in crimes, were arrested. The aftermath also inspired attacks against Italians throughout the nation.
@demetriusevans4139
Жыл бұрын
Crazy. I live in Columbus Ohio and it's mainly Italians here pushing for the holiday. Really.
@lucianomezzetta4332
Жыл бұрын
Really? It is crazy that Italian Americans are pushing for a day to honor Columbus?!
@christopherdaffron8115
Жыл бұрын
Yeah, I agree why Native Americans especially would have an issue with Columbus Day if Americans were celebrating Christopher Columbus himself or even the discovery of North America by Europeans and their subsequent colonization. Columbus Day was meant to celebrate Italian Americans even though it has a Dark beginning. I think Columbus Day should return to its roots and even disclose the dark history that led to it. We continue to celebrate Juneteenth despite its dark history.
@MrLuqman33
Жыл бұрын
How did you and Kurimeo both put out a video on Columbus on the same day?
@johnking6252
Жыл бұрын
Being part Polish I've always been amazed at how related and connected we are in our discrimination against each other, I've grown up around Mexican, Italian,us Polish and a whole bunch of white folk and I always thought we were just family. IDK I could be wrong.? Hallelujah , Shalom and Aloha. 🙏✌️
@Raphabaaw_
11 ай бұрын
The mass lyshing in 1891 makes me think about the « Massacre of italian in Aigues Mortes (Southern France) on 1893 » french workers, in a context of huge xénophobia killed 8 italians workers in raison of their italian identity. PS : I discovered your Channel today and I already watch 5 vidéos. You ´re very interesting and sorry if I make spelling mistakes (I’m a french dude)
@nytn
11 ай бұрын
I never heard of that lynching. I will definitely read up on that history....I am so glad you are here. Thank you! Your spelling is amazing :)
@davidtrujillo993
Жыл бұрын
The world would be a better place if the Spaniards, Italians, Portuguese, and hispanos had a will to power. The world would be correct again.
@memcrew1
Жыл бұрын
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@Nick-kk9ei
Жыл бұрын
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@missterri4116
Жыл бұрын
Fantastic video thank you for teaching our history another important subject is the immigration act of 1924 that kept Italians and other nationalities from entering the US
@p.thompson5474
Жыл бұрын
Interestingly enough, my mother found out through DNA testing that she had some Italian ancestry! My mother, a Black woman from the U.S. South (Alabama, Louisiana, was certainly aware that she was of African, Indigenous and European descent (French, Spanish & English/Scottish/Irish). The only Italian relative my mother knew was not a blood relative; her paternal great-aunt was married to an Italian man and lived in Ohio because their marriage was illegal in Alabama. Anyway, the inclusion and increase of Italian roots that the DNA testing she's been doing continues to show less French heritage, but it is important to remember that Italy was not a unified country until 1871, some regions were connected with Spain and France (and the Austrian Empire). So some of those known ancestors still could have identified as "French", but might have also had Italian and Spanish roots. That's a subject for another day. But wow, @nytn this, along with the Asian heritage, blew my mind when my mother first shared her results.
@adamcohen2632
Жыл бұрын
There are two books about the lynchings which I know to be worthwhile for those interested. 1. The 1891 New Orleans Lynching and U.S.-Italian Relations: A Look Back (Studies in Southern Italian and Italian American Culture) 2. The Crescent City Lynchings: The Murder of Chief Hennessy, the New Orleans "Mafia" Trials, and the Parish Prison Mob
@jh76103
Жыл бұрын
I am so thankful for your hard work and videos! I don't recall being taught anything about the struggles of Italian-Americans at all; otherwise I would have remembered some of it. I'm originally from WV and learned there was a significant Italian-American population in the coal mining communities, but that's the extent of it. I was unaware of the tension between Italian-Americans and Native Americans until watching an episode of The Sopranos many years ago, and I'm somewhat embarrassed that's how I learned about it. I have always thought Italians were gorgeous people with great food and I grew up wanting to be part of a huge family like that. Interestingly, several years ago I learned that Christopher Columbus assisted many Jews who were expelled from Spain in 1492, and that's another reason to regard him as a hero in my opinion.
@yo3rdtier128
Жыл бұрын
Yeah, but what about Columbus didn’t even discover America. You plight in this country is small fry and nothing to really complain about. This KZitemr lady is no teacher, she benefited from white supremacy just like rest of you
@chinablue7410
Жыл бұрын
I guess Ron DeSantis doesn’t know about the lynching of Italians!
@TheMidniteSon
Жыл бұрын
He knows. He just doesn't want everyone else to know.
@Press1for
Жыл бұрын
Try being Native American and Italian (Calabrese)....thats a rare mix
@CindyS-j4l
Жыл бұрын
I know some people like that
@GhostSal
Жыл бұрын
Actually she is, she has Italian and Indigenous American heritage (among others).
It is interesting how the US government hands out holidays to try and make an oppressed group feel better. I thought that the government did this with the Juneteenth holiday after all the George Floyd protests. I am in favor of the holiday. I just wonder if the holiday was approved in lieu of more meaningful legislation. It sounds like this is also possibly how Colombus Day came to be and how it came to be replaced (in some places).
@nytn
Жыл бұрын
what an excellent point, I do think the holidays are used that way.
@johnnyearp52
Жыл бұрын
@@davruck1 Black people told me this about MLK's holiday years ago. That is how I figured the rest out. Obviously I couldn't have done that without you.
@audreyandlinCompany
Жыл бұрын
I don't know if it was because i was in the northeast region or because my basic education pre dates political correctness, but I was taught that Columbus Day was made a national holiday because of the corrupted Sacco & Vanzetti trial. It occurred in Boston but had an effect throughout the northeast where there was a large Italian immigrant population. In order to ease tensions and foster an appreciation of Italians, the US government launched a huge PR campaign to create a sense of national unity and identity. I learned this around 1960’s or 70s.
@genehammond7239
Жыл бұрын
Keep schooling the masses girl !!!
@64north20west
Жыл бұрын
Keep Columbus Day. There are arguments against every single holiday Including July 4, Thanksgiving, and yes even Christmas. We need to keep the conversation going on the history to educate the children. Now don't get me started on how stupid these book bans are. Thanks for another great video.
@japeri171
Жыл бұрын
We must always learn from past mistakes so that they are not repeated in the future.
@paddyleather5676
3 күн бұрын
Happy Columbus Day
@shaifunnessa7816
Жыл бұрын
How British and American become friends
@nytn
Жыл бұрын
That sounds like a good topic
@Becca4.2
Жыл бұрын
How Louisiana became American ....
@eziocutarelli678
Жыл бұрын
where are catholic colleges and universities regarding this vital piece of knowledge?
@nytn
Жыл бұрын
not sure why but it never comes up…😬
@carlosacta8726
Жыл бұрын
Very important question! It is never lost on me that some of the biggest perpetrators of anti-Italian violence were the Irish! Keep in mind that these people were also Roman Catholic!
@ricosauve5
9 ай бұрын
I leaned this years ago. Shows how politics will play a role in what holidays we celebrate in order to smooth things over. Also back then there was white America and not so white America. Same as it was viewed in Europe of white Europeans and not so white Europeans depending on the part of Europe they came from.
@ocdbrain
Жыл бұрын
Interesting
@cjaquilino
11 ай бұрын
4:21 I have an identity right at the crux between these two communities: I'm both Italian (really Napoletan) and Puerto Rican (Taino/Arawak) the people that Columbus landed on. I have no issue with keeping some kind of Italian American Heritage day/month or whatever at the same time as an Indigenous one, that doesn't center around Colombus. Frankly, both my Italian and Puerto Rican side have beef with Columbus. Napoletan had so many conflicts with the Genovese and had no reason to idolize it's elite, like Columbus.
@corneliuswhite5139
Жыл бұрын
I had NO idea.
@juliostevens9480
Жыл бұрын
If some states wanna change it to Indigenous people day there should be nothing wrong with that. It would reflective of the melting pot that the Americas and to a lesser extent the US has been post colonialism.
@manwhoismissingtwotoenails4811
Жыл бұрын
They still sit back while the native women get kidnapped and sold into prostitution, they're quieter about their genocide but it's still happening.
@buzzlightyear3715
10 ай бұрын
Thr victims included: “fruit peddlers Antonio Bagnetto, Antonio Marchesi and Antonio Scaffidi; stevedores James Caruso and Rocco Geraci; cobbler Pietro Monasterio; tinsmith Loreto Comitis; street vendor Emmanuele Polizzi; fruit importer Joseph P. Macheca; ward politician Frank Romero; and rice plantation laborer Charles Traina.”
@gloriaanderson7424
Жыл бұрын
Columbus didn’t find a place that native Americans were already living here. Why do Italians want to be associated with Columbus?
@gissellest333
Жыл бұрын
That’s awful, l read about lynchings of Catholics in the south in a book called “Elizabeth street”.
@nytn
Жыл бұрын
I'll have to look that one up, thank you!
@TheMidniteSon
Жыл бұрын
The funny thing about it is Columbus actually made landfall in the Caribbean not North America. Not only that Leif Erikson made landfall in North America about 500yrs before Columbus. Another fun fact is Christopher Columbus isn't even his real name. No wonder why certain people in this country don't want the REAL history of this country taught!
@Camie.in.Philly
Жыл бұрын
I guess the question I have would be, what does a holiday celebrating the founding of America have to do with Italians?
@nytn
Жыл бұрын
President Harrison was trying to throw everyone a bone, I think
@jeffg.8964
Жыл бұрын
Columbus was a Genoese. He was in a sense the first American: He didn’t know where he was going, when he got there he didn’t know where he was, when he returned home he didn’t know where he had been, and he did it all with borrowed money! God bless America, a country named after an Italian!
@johnnyearp52
Жыл бұрын
Columbus was Italian so honor a group by honoring a famous Italian?
@elleanna5869
Жыл бұрын
Columbus arrival started America's modern history. The continent America is named after another Explorer, Amerigo Vespucci. Both were Italians. They weren't direct colonizers, were succesful explorers sent to discover new trade routes . Columbus was searching for a competitive route to trade with India (the actual one) .He accidentally found a whole new "thing"
@johnnyearp52
Жыл бұрын
@@elleanna5869 Columbus enslaved people and was a colonial governor. How can you be a colonial governor and not be a direct colonizer?
@jenjoestar.
7 ай бұрын
People still think Columbus was Italian ? And that was his real name😭
@insulaarachnid
Жыл бұрын
Non-American here, Could there be a remembrance day(not a holiday) for the lynching, on what is now Columbus Day or the date of the actual lynching itself? The historical basis for the holiday is then discussed/remembered but it is part of a wider and ongoing discussion around white supremacy ideas/structures.
@timverba4830
Жыл бұрын
Very interesting presentation. We should ask Ron DeSantis for a solution to the confusion over Columbus Day. Maybe we should really ask Ja Rule.
@nytn
Жыл бұрын
I wish this conversation could go more public. I have no idea how to achieve that but KZitem ☺️
@sameldames1983
Жыл бұрын
Wow 😮
@sloth6247
8 ай бұрын
Is not a fact that Columbus was Italian so I find this bizarre.
@danblair1591
Жыл бұрын
It was one of the worst hate crimes and ethnic crimes in the US’ history with those 11 Italians. As well as the several other xenophobic hate crimes against the ethnic group of Italians. Once by English and Irish whom identified as American in the 19th century to early 20th century in the South. A time when Itslians were being labelled as black or brown than white. Then we’re identified as white in the 20th and 21st centuries. Plus Anglo Saxon doesn’t mean English descent it means Germanic descent as the Saxons and Anglos were from around Denmark and Germany.
@chrisventura1881
5 ай бұрын
Italy wasn't even a unified country then. Columbus was not southern Italian like most of us immigrants.
@CatLoverx900
2 ай бұрын
1891 when that lynching happened in Nola. Italy was a country by then.
@chrisventura1881
2 ай бұрын
@CatLoverx900 Pretty dang recently by then. Imagine a country 20 something years old. You can see all our ancestors still spoke their own dialects at that time and had their own little separate cultures. And to hush the people from their pain of being treated like crap, discriminated against, and even lynched, the government let them celebrate a rich northerner who didn't even speak the same language as them. Most Southern Italians can't relate to Columbus who represented Spain but they accept that something is better than nothing unfortunately. The American government who didn't even accept Southern Italians chose our so called hero for us because it benefited them for multiple reasons. 🇮🇹✌🏼🇺🇸
@CatLoverx900
2 ай бұрын
@@chrisventura1881 ya southern Italy/sicily has always been a little disconnected from the rest since “schism” and Muslim conquest/ being reclaimed by eastern Roman Empire when the west collapsed.
@undisputedtruth4954
Жыл бұрын
His last name is Zarco, and he's a noble bastard son of a Zarco.
@melissaglenny9106
17 күн бұрын
Also, go back a little further to understand the reason the community was outraged and what lead to the persecution of Italians. I understand it started with gang rivaly between the Irish and Italians and reached a boiling point when the Italian gang murdered an Irish Police Commissioner. Does anyone have more detail on the history?
@SeasideDetective2
Жыл бұрын
Those men were not lynched just because they were Italians. If that had been true, no Italian immigrant in New Orleans would have been safe, and the Italian-American community in that city would most likely have been exterminated. The victims were targeted because they were suspected of participating in a (successful) plot to assassinate the city's police chief - a plot that possibly was masterminded by "the Mafia," and in fact that was the first time that Anglo-Americans became familiar with that name. Christopher Columbus, hailing from Genoa, was in fact a LIgurian, and thus belonged to a nation whose history was very different from that of other parts of Italy. (What we now think of as Italy was for centuries split between the Holy Roman Empire, the Kingdom of Sicily, and numerous small republics.) In addition, Columbus identified as a Spaniard for most of his life, and his modern-day descendants are Spanish citizens. Classifying him as Italian is more than a bit of a stretch.
@nytn
Жыл бұрын
please watch the other videos I made, I just released one where 5 Sicilian Americans were lynched for a murder that never occurred. this was more common than we would think ETA: here is one of the videos kzitem.info/news/bejne/up2Bsot4o19npHo
@GhostSal
Жыл бұрын
She is absolutely correct about what she said! In 1891 thousands of angry residents, distraught and mourning the murder of Chief of police David Hennessy, gathered by the jail. Mr Hennessy was killed in New Orleans during the fall of 1890. The last person to see him alive said that he blamed the “dagos” before he succumbed to his wounds. It didn’t take long for impassioned speakers to seize the opportunity and whip the already intensely angry mob into an enraged bloodthirsty frenzy. The now determined and livid mob forced their way into the jail (actually forced is much to strong a word, there was no resistance), they rounded up and ferociously attacked any Italians they could find. This wasn’t an isolated event and nor was the anger towards Italians anything new. Italians weren’t looked as being whíte and therefore were already the targets of racïsts. No one from the mob was ever held accountable, despite the outrage from the Italian government and demands for the mob to be brought to justice. Italy’s demands for justice fell on deaf ears, so Italy responded by cutting off diplomatic relations with the United States. Italy at the time had one of the largest Naval fleets in the world and the US was outmatched at sea so rumors of war were taken seriously. Unfortunately, the mob’s actions were instead mostly praised throughout the US; with only some willing to call out the heinous acts. In fact a grand jury investigation officially pronounced the killings praiseworthy. Historian Barbara Botein describes the investigation and the subsequent outcome as, “possibly one of the greatest whitewashes in American history.” These are the names of the innocent men that were killed by the mob in New Orleans (Don’t forget that mob numbered in the thousands). These men were not only lynched, some men were literally mutilated and physically torn apart. March 14, 1891 RIP Antonio Bagnetto RIP James Caruso RIP Loreto Comitis RIP Rocco Geracci RIP Joseph P. Macheca RIP Antonio Marchesi RIP Pietro Monasterio RIP Emmanuele Polizzi RIP Frank Romero RIP Antonio Scaffidi RIP Carlo Traina After the horrific incident, hundreds of Italian immigrants, the majority of which were innocent of any wrongdoing and not suspects in crimes, were arrested. The aftermath also inspired attacks against Italians throughout the nation. The New Orleans aftermath put a lot of pressure on then President Harrison; it provoked a major diplomatic crisis between the U.S. and Italy. Harrison was deeply concerned about the events and the very real possibility of war breaking out between the U.S. and Italy. He denounced the lynching as “an offense against law and humanity,” which intern prompted Congress to consider his impeachment. The New York Times wrote an anti-Italian editorial praising the mob and cheerleading support of violence against Sicilians (The New York Times Editorial March 16 1891): "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." Another newspaper reported (The New Orleans Times-Democrat): "The little jail was crowded with Sicilians," the paper reported, "whose low, receding foreheads, repulsive countenances and slovenly attire proclaimed their brutal nature."
@nytn
Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for taking the time to educate and share. There is so much more hidden history that needs to see the light of day.@@GhostSal
@GhostSal
Жыл бұрын
@@nytn You’re very welcome, thank you for your video and taking the time to educate so many about Italian history in America. I have been researching Italian history for over 20 years, unfortunately far too much is left out of our education system.
@DeRocco21
9 ай бұрын
Actually they where newspapers of the day literally celebrating it. Blaming the victims as rats, trash and other of it's kind
@patricias4442
2 күн бұрын
Talk about that he is probably not even Italian? He was a Spanish Jew or even Portuguese.
@stevewhite7426
Жыл бұрын
I think it’s largely about avoiding the whole issue of Columbus who DIDN’T discover America
@Doge811
Жыл бұрын
Wow 🙄🙄🙄 it's pretty clear that he wasn't the first human and not even the first European but this really changes nothing, what he did was an incredibly important thing in history that changed the world forever in good and bad but still important. Also he discovered America for the rest of the world that didn't really know about it before, and the vikings definitely didn't realize it and didn't tell it. Then he wasn't an hero but he is still incredibly important that you like it or not.
@stevewhite7426
Жыл бұрын
@@Doge811 It’s an important piece of Jesuit theatre and a strong influence on the entire world but he DIDN’T discover America and neither did Amerigo Vespucci who himself dismissed that story as ridiculous. Not even the Vikings who guided Columbus (or whatever his name was) to America discovered America. “Olmec” were from west Africa and arrived at lead 3,000 years ago, according to van Sertima who has proof. We’ve been lied to about everything.
@teamzeppelin9540
Жыл бұрын
My Italian blood is beginning to boil..🤬🤬
@margowakefield3295
Жыл бұрын
GeeWhiz!! Why do we have to have one and not the other? We can't have both? WHY NOT?? Why can't we have Columbus-Tecumseh Day or Tecumseh-Columbus Day?
@christopherm202dcfinest2
Жыл бұрын
They got reparations
@shaifunnessa7816
Жыл бұрын
British American history please make video
@evergreenlandscaping901
11 ай бұрын
True story but you missed the most important point or signs . Genesis. 15, verse 13, Abraham seeds and the 400 yrs prophecy started in 1492 add 400 years we will end up in 1892. This error was prophesies in the Bible. in 1892 July 23 Haile Selassie was born and in 1930 November 2nd he was crown king of kings, Lord of lords , this is more than some political stunt or national crisis. This is prophecy Abraham seeds, 400 years, 1492 Christopher Columbus 1892 Haile Selassie.. You could change the name take the statues down keep it up it won’t matter Genesis 15, verse 13 will never change .
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