For most black people, this is not surprising, This was the norm for all ethnicities not considered white. Italians were not considered white when they came to America. And it's reasons like this that many non black immigrants passed for white or jumped on the bandwagon to be considered white when it became available. Its the reason light skin black people passed for white as well.

@joeyscribbles9803

8 ай бұрын

People of African descent like caribbeans and latinos, africansalso fought for white or atleast to distinguish themselves from black Americans. All who were not ADOS were trying to pass for something.

@Njoofene

7 ай бұрын

​@@joeyscribbles9803Stop!

@mylissa2167

6 ай бұрын

@@NjoofeneIt was the those same Africans that helped those Italians flee Louisiana, only to have that same group, and just every other group in this country, that has done when they’ve gotten their wyte status turned their backs on the very people that have helped them, and are the reason they’re able to come to this country, and enjoy the CIVIL RIGHTS THEY HAVE… THAT’S OUR ANCESTORS, OR ELDERS BLOOD, AND THEIR DEAD BODIES!

@DeRocco21

5 ай бұрын

I was browner in the south and that came with difficulties. I'm whiter in the north and you can guess that what wokeness thinks

@joshuajones1319

4 ай бұрын

.....white and black were status, not the complexion of skin

Our history as Americans isn't as wonderful as our collective memory tells us. 😢

@davidhbrown9767

9 ай бұрын

How often do you tell everyone about your ingrown toenails, or your underwear on the bedroom floor? There's always good and bad in the history of an entire country. Get real about it.

@johnbarker256

9 ай бұрын

​@@davidhbrown9767I see your point but how often do my toenails result in the death of innocent people and the overthrowing of foreign democracy and sovereign rights. Like I don't know man I don't tell people about my underwear but I also don't tell people that blacks Italians and Irish people are genetically inferior and than try to act like we don't have a history of brutally oppressing those who are different and when people bring up the reality of my actions I tell them to "get real" about the trail of bodies I left behind. Just get real about our government literally owning people for an amount of time they lie about to this day, get real about the mass graves we still find in north America filled with natives whose tribes never get to tell their story because they were subjects of a genocide and got assimilated into other cultures. Just get real about that newspaper Henry Ford owned that spread anti semitic conspiracy theories that last till this day, and get real about the fact we put Hitler on the cover of times magazine and that in mien kumpf he praised Jim crow and our treatment of blacks and natives Americans. I think you get the point, and yes I can keep going. But nah the guy simply saying the government lies to us about the wrong it does needs to get real.........not the guy talking about underwear while we talk about dead people. If I had dirty underwear on my kitchen table and when and you pointed out that underwear on the table is gross, so I threw it under the rug and gaslight you into thinking it was never there or that it's someone else's fault than that is different than just having a dirty room and telling you about it. It's the lies and scale that makes your comparison fall apart, I would tell you too take that makeup off your face but the circus wouldn't be the same without you

@clementmckenzie7041

9 ай бұрын

As we seek to make America great again we should remember that the good ole days weren't all that good for a lot of Americans. Many who don't really get that it wouldn't have been that great for them either .

@vanessapete1091

9 ай бұрын

​@@clementmckenzie7041Thank You. So True. That's because they don't know their history,OR their OWN ancestry.

@johnnyearp52

9 ай бұрын

​@@clementmckenzie7041That's why we shouldn't seek to make America great "again". Just leave off the "again".

It's a great and generally unknown story. I think this is one of the largest if not the largest KNOWN lynchings in America's history. Almost started a war between America and Italy. Funny thing is, Louisiana is arguably the most dangerous state in the union today, for any ethnicity. 3 cities in the FBI's top 10 murder rate list. Louisiana also had the highest murder rate as a state from 1989-2019. 30 years straight. This is before Shreveport entered the top 10 for murder rate.... Took a year off in 2020 and reclaimed the title from 2021-present.

@clementmckenzie7041

9 ай бұрын

largest lynching was of a group of chinese Americans. I forget the exact details.

@mizcatfish5972

9 ай бұрын

Wow! Thank you for sharing this info!👍🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

@FrankBrocato

9 ай бұрын

I grew up in Baton Rouge and can agree Louisiana has had a large share of us Italian Americans tormented and discriminated against in my lifetime.

@TruthIsLikeTheSun

8 ай бұрын

Research the Tulsa, OK Massacre of Black Wallstreet, and Rosewood, FL. Massacre, then visit The Legacy Museum and Peace & Justice Memorial in Montgomery, AL, which is known as the birthplace of the Civil Rights Movement. They have documented close to 7,000 "known" Lynchings of Black men mostly, but also women and children across the south mainly. One stat that stood out was approximately 25% of the men lynched had allegedly killed, raped, dated, looked at, or spoke to a white woman. Both the Tulsa & Rosewood massacres were allegedly for the same reason, as well as The Scottsboro, AL Boys, Emmett Till's murder in Mississippi and many more.

Now, Italians are treating other immigrants like crap.

@clementmckenzie7041

8 ай бұрын

The worst part about our system of racial preferences is that once the old whites stop beating you and allow you in the club, they require you to pick up a bat and start beating the people not allowed into club

@theorangecone666

3 ай бұрын

How are you talking for an entire group of people dumbass 😂😂

@urvanhroboatos8044

Ай бұрын

Invaders, not immigrants. Nobody wants them.

A lot and I mean a lot of this happens in the South! Free Slaves we’re lynched or Just killed for nothing! The Italians went through period of this type of oppression as well!

@Joe-qm4yv

9 ай бұрын

The irish as well. Mostly English and Germans controlled the south

@elsajones6325

9 ай бұрын

And lynchings included Texas (Mexican) citizens who did not comply with new laws after the Alamo incident. It may not be public, written knowledge, but families of the victim's don't forget...ever

I went to a college in upstate Pennsylvania in the mid/late 80's. They weren't thrilled with Italians, and they let it be known. I never understood why until now. Thank you for your videos.

@GhostSal

9 ай бұрын

Up until the 1980s I had racíal slurs yelled at me from passing cars, got into altercations at schooł and chased out of all whíte neighborhoods… All because I’m Sicilian and wasn’t considered “whíte”. Today far too many people want to deny this history and claim we were always accepted or claim it wasn’t “that bad”. It comes down to the fact too many people don’t know the history nearly as well as they think they do.

@NovemberReigne

8 ай бұрын

@@GhostSalI am so sorry that you had experienced so much hate back then by ignorant people.

@GhostSal

8 ай бұрын

@@NovemberReigne Very kind of you, thank you. Also, I’m not saying today is like that at all… I’m just sharing the history that far too many people don’t know (or want to try and deny).

Wow I drive through Talulah on the way to Alexandria it’s crazy to me Italians ended up in such a nothing town especially back in the day . I have heard an Italian shop keeper would let me sick grandpa get some groceries on credit back in the 60’s my mom says some items were moldy but it was better than the nothing for dinner options available especially in a deeply segregated town like Alexandria. My grandpa was a purple heart navy vet who served in the Korean war and lost an eye he never received his G.I . Bill money and they suffered as his health was horrible he died before my mother finished high school . Louisiana is cultural gem but my goodness the hatred and pure evil of the locals and in north and central Louisiana was and still is heartbreaking

Welcome to the Lynch club Italians

Thank you for bringing this to light. I knew about Italian lynchings years ago. I’m glad someone is bringing it to light. As a person of a descendant of Italian immigrants in the South who is still searching for answers to her own heritage. My grandfather who is mixed was raised by a mother who carried Italian traditions on but she was from Texas. The 11 lynchings of men and boys in Louisiana had a major mark in the South. There is a statue of Italian immigrants in Lake Village, Arkansas. I am not 100 % sure but it is there because some of those immigrants who escaped the horrid torture escaped into the predominantly Black city there for refuge. Some also escaped into Texas. Keep up the good work.

@elsajones6325

9 ай бұрын

Texas has the evidence of these migrations with the Italian last names, which also include maximilians troops

@mizcatfish5972

9 ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing this info!👍🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

@jeffreyhosang658

9 ай бұрын

Wow ironic the Italian diaspora in the early 1900. Was displaced in the black neighborhood in NYC ..and years later chasing black and Latinos out of predominantly established Italian neighborhoods (bensonhurst..bayridge...etc).. calling them nig... And spi..... Wow. Wasn't even considered white because of the census after 1940s....mmmmm. it's funny how America celebrate their mafiaso bullshit... knowing they know different than black criminal..but they have some nerve undermining black Americans and they10 times as worst as far crime🖕🏽 ....

See this is what confused me with Red Dead Redemption 2 is that this Italian guy was running the whole city no way

@nytn

9 ай бұрын

This actually made me LOL :)

I am Italian and I have lot of relatives in U.S. they went there fifty-seventy years ago. They had sons/daugthers and we, in Italy call them "the Americans" i hope things change now. Greet them all. Ciao.

The WASP has been the most brutal!!

Ive never seen a loop done on a video about a mass murder

Possibly the largest lynching in American history and it was done to Italians.

@clementmckenzie7041

8 ай бұрын

The largest lynching in America was the 1871 Chinese mascara of 19 Chinese in los Angeles

I guess this is what they mean when they say Make America Great Again....

@Justme-xw4gs

9 ай бұрын

You really are an IDIOT.

@lolakepi

7 ай бұрын

😅😅😅😅😅😅

@edwardmiessner6502

7 ай бұрын

And they have picked out new minorities to persecute and "suspend". 😠

@cicada9471

4 ай бұрын

Who wants to lynch people these days?

What I'm going to say has nothing to do with your story. but but I grew up in Brooklyn and in Staten Island New York. The Italians that I would meet would basically be so prejudiced against the Puerto Ricans . so light or you're so dark or whatever they would comment. So I'm wondering was your family like that.

@elsiecruz8537

9 ай бұрын

I don't understand , are you questioning what I stated

@nytn

9 ай бұрын

oh no Im so sorry! that went to the wrong comment :)@@elsiecruz8537

@clementmckenzie7041

8 ай бұрын

I was also very surprised at how prejudiced Italian Americans in the new York state area were. Considering the history of Italian Americans in America. I was shocked to discover that an Italian American had started a chapter of the KKK, in Long Island, I didn't even know that Italians could be clan members. Live and learn I guess. You gotta realize that for whiteness the last person allowed in is responsible for guarding the door and keeping everyone else out.

As a Sicilian Italian American we were never taught about this is school thanks for all u do and marry an Italian keep our blood pure

This happened in Colorado too.

Imagine being lynched for the cost of a free drink. Ain't America great.

@edwardmiessner6502

7 ай бұрын

I think this is what some people think and hope for when they hear Trump say, "Make America great again!"

@Alexander.Anthony

Ай бұрын

@@edwardmiessner6502I’m MAGA, it’s not. It’s more of when we were viewed favorably by the rest of the world due to military prowess and economic dominance. Along with culturally providing entertainment for the rest of the world to enjoy. Saudi Arabia is discontinuing the “Petro-Dollar” agreement this fall after 85 years, we’re involved in 3 proxy wars and the current leadership has done nothing but open the border and share our tax dollars with newcomers and foreign countries defenses. Corporation have had a blast squeezing the American people for every last dollar with inflation, a lot of it due to supply chain issues from countries bitter/or actually Impacted by the affect of Biden’s sanctions on Russia. “Globalization” has always been real and this administration has been terrible. At this point “Make America Somewhat Affordable Again” and try to restore our foreign relation and keep out of WW3. Joe wants it, “war clause”, would mean no election. I can’t believe he just signed the 10 year defense agreement with Zelensky worth 50 billion (most funded by our hard earned tax dollars).

The plight and discrimination of Italians, and other “white”ethnicities is largely forgotten. Thank you for acknowledging, the historical significance in addition to the influence it had on society, culture, legislation, economy, national and global events, etc… I am Italian-Polish American (for lack of a better term), and both sides of my family have try to preserve as many written accounts, memoirs, documents, heirlooms, etc…as possible. Our ancestors will not be lost in history, and they live on in the memories of each subsequent generation, and the importance and value of this is the emphatically delivered and understood.

Ok...... where the bar...I need a drink...

Sicilian was an Emirate and this is where we get the source of those Italian Moorish.

@nicoparise-jc5fs

9 ай бұрын

Italians are Latino, come from Latin tribe that is Italic. Italians always have been Latino. Latin in Italian means latino masculine and Latina feminine. Latin is short for latino. Which the Roman’s were referred to as latino in 150 b.c. A lot of Spanish and Italian is the same, both languages came from the Latin or latino language.

I'm 56 years old, and grew up only 30 miles from Tallulah. I didn't hear about this until about two years ago. Thankfully, when I was a child and teen (70s and 80s), nobody thought anything of an Italian surname. Both outrageous and bizarre that Italians would be attacked for who they were back in 1899.

Horrible. My Grandmother cooked for an Italian family in Louisiana when she was young. I miss her sooo much.! ❤️🙏🏽🕊

WOW!!!!! UNBELIEVABLE!!!!!

That stopped when Carlos Marcello ran things in that state!

I knew it. They called Italians the N word too. THE DIFFERENCE HERE IS THAT ITALIANS were not enslaved, and they retained their faith, and their culture. Also, at some point, they were allowed to assimilate.

Ok meadow soprano.

Yeah... That sounds about 'Murican...

I'm so glad that my Sicilian Bisnonno (Great-Grandfather) emigrated straight to Boston, where he had an already established community to connect with.

@mollycakes7080

8 ай бұрын

Boston is very racist towards African Americans.

Wait … so why are Italians not considered white? I know I missed something

@urvanhroboatos8044

Ай бұрын

Tanned

@Alexander.Anthony

Ай бұрын

Moors and also Ottoman Empire.

😓

Wow so much hatred in the world

Make a video on why Colombian women are so hot

@incoco2

9 ай бұрын

South of the Equator Weather is Warmer . They have air conditioning tho to cool them down

@calidawg510

9 ай бұрын

@@incoco2 I don’t get it

@incoco2

9 ай бұрын

@@calidawg510 Just Being A Smart Azz

@nytn

9 ай бұрын

LOL. are they?

@calidawg510

9 ай бұрын

@@13anjowizard From the Spanish?

There’s a State I will negotiate near.

I love Italian women

Usa has a bad history

@mollycakes7080

8 ай бұрын

Very bad. They love to hide their ugly history, but some of us will always remember.

So they also need reparations

@rodney9772

9 ай бұрын

Get in line

@DJ-iu5bb

9 ай бұрын

​@@rodney9772shit me too I'm Native American cut the check 😂

@DJ-iu5bb

9 ай бұрын

​@@rodney9772same I'm Native American cut the check 😂

@rodney9772

9 ай бұрын

@DJ-iu5bb yes sir , im a FBA ....lets apply together lol

@clementmckenzie7041

8 ай бұрын

Better to be quiet and have people think you are a fool than to open your mouth and confirm it. The concept of reparations is for three hundred years of unpaid labor, the kidnapping and forced labor of millions children and the sex trafficking of millions of men women and children. Something thankfully the Italians never had suffer. If additional monies were to be asked for the post slavery, violence, mistreatment, conspiracies and harm visited upon black people in America by the day to day white power structures it would bankrupt the nation.

This is why I find it awkward when the US compares itself to Rome, how can they hate and claim to be superior to those whom they learned civilization from?

@clementmckenzie7041

8 ай бұрын

There are a lot of valid comparisons to make between the two. Rome was a massive power with an extremely large enslaved population and highly discriminatory laws , where daily prejudice was the norm, poverty was rampant and open brutality generally accepted. The wealthy horded all the benefits of the empire and made the laws to ensure that they received the lions share of whatever the empire could produce. Once legal citizenship was extended to some none romans, Romans also struggled with what made you Roman if none Romans could also be citizens. Rome also settled on a system of informal discrimination to limit the enfranchisement of none Roman, Roman citizens, which allowed a few to rise, a bit l. One or two even became Emperor but most would be held down. Now honestly none of that sounds familiar to you?

@robertvazquez2964

8 ай бұрын

@@clementmckenzie7041 Yea but we Latins did the majority of the conquering part in this continent which was also what Roman did so this country should be thankful for that for paving the way for it to be able to exist on this continent peacefully but when you are racist to us and other peoples that were also part of the Roman Empire than we can no longer consider you the same as the Roman Empire the beloved capital.

The American Deep South now lynching more than just ...uhh "black people". *Done for comedic affect, writer does not condone any racist actions possibly perpetrated by his nameless ancestors.

Yeah after I dropped on ya page n didn’t even like the comment lol

@nytn

9 ай бұрын

LOL if this is real. I get like 2000 comments a day I miss so many! :(

@MoneyAli75

9 ай бұрын

@@nytn no I called myself a jerk cuz actually your talking about another incident lol but thanks Italy 🇮🇹 is the best I’m learning Italian n plan to visit next year ! N of course the Italian girls are the hottest in the states lol

I know it was true

The French revolutionary leaders had a disdain for Christians especially catholicism. The "atheist" revolutionaries slaughtered whole towns when they refused to denounce their religon. They were so brutal the term sadist was coined because of one leaders Marquis De Sade. Don't forget the territory that birthed the klan later was initially settled by the Frenchman from that period of the French revolution. It should be no surprise they cultivated a non Christian worldview that would also incorporate the occult along with a hatred for catholic people and jews.

@johnnyearp52

9 ай бұрын

The Klan was mostly Christian.