Here are some interesting things:
Southern Italians were considered “black” in the South and were subjected to the Jim Crow laws of segregation. They weren’t allowed to marry “whites.” It was difficult, damn near impossible.
They were designated as “black” on census forms if they lived in the South and that is because the majority of them were dark-skinned Sicilians.
Mass lynchings happened to them often.
One of the biggest mass lynchings happened to Italians in New Orleans when they thought that a Italian immigrant had killed a “white” police officer.
The very few Northern Italians that immigrated here perpetuated the myth that Southern Italians and Greeks were of a different race than them in order to save their own asses. This wasn’t true, and there are actually dark-skinned Italians all over Italy, not just in the South, as well as light-skinned Italians all over Italy.
The reason I say very few is because over 80% of Italian immigrants were from Southern Italy (Sicily, Abruzzo, Calabria, Campania, Sardinia, Naples, etc.)
It was highly unlikely (damn near impossible) for a Southern Italian to own a slave because they were seen as the same as blacks, and at the time, they were the second (right behind blacks) most discriminated against group.
The mass immigration for Italians didn’t start until 1880 and even then, they were discriminated against. However, this mass immigration leads into Italian-Americans today:
Italian is the fourth largest ethnic group reported among white Americans.
The great majority of Italians are now middle class to upper middle class and wealthy. They also mostly work white collar jobs.
Their intermarriage rate is around 90%. It was at 80% in the 70’s. So most Italian-Americans also have a white parent of some other descent, especially if they were born after 1980. Exactly like my friend who has a Sicilian father (and he is very dark-skinned) and white Southerner for a mother. We spoke to my friend’s Sicilian grandfather, and he said that one of his brothers was dating a white girl from the South back in the day and that her family considered him “black.” They thought that was weird because by that time, they were living in New York.
They are now considered white
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I thought it was interesting looking at back then and looking at them now. I knew they weren’t considered white back then, but I had no idea they actually wrote them down as black on census forms. That shocked me, and when I found that my friend’s ancestor was listed as black on that census form, I thought the ancestor was just a biracial who had a Sicilian father, and so did she. We were just as surprised to find that he was just a teenage Sicilian immigrant. My friend has tanned skin, dark hair, blue eyes, and freckles to boot. So you can see both ethnicities in her. My Greek professor is way darker than her, and he also has a white, WASPY mother.
Italians are still discriminated against. I remember hearing a group of white women referring to them as “Ghetto Whites”. Many whites who feel they have a “true bloodline” dont like them. Anglo Saxonism is a bitch. Pretty much anyone not from England, Gemany (not Jews), Netherlands and so on is not “truly white”. From my experience and when I look at history, this is how white supremacists feel. Spaniards are technically considered Euopean/”white”, but many dont accept them as that. Discrimination among the white race is very prevalent.
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I agree with you Gloria Serido, coffee, work, grand kids and keeping my house in order. Because by the end of the day whether people like it or not we all come from Africa.
Race is not a skin color. Your skull shape determines your race.
Skull shape has nothing to do with your race, have you ever even gone to school or gotten a proper education. I never knew anyone could be that stupid
OMG – no …you are completely wrong and ill informed…
My parents (and ALL ancestors for generations) come from a small mountain town in the Campagna region of SOUTHERN Italy (north of Benevento). Recently took the Ancestry DNA test. This test had a surprising number of African categories. I was ZERO in all African categories, AND zero North African. I was 80% European Southern Italian, 3% European Jew?, 1% Ireland??? 1% W. Europe, 1% British isles (guess Roman soldiers stationed in Britania brought home native wives)11% Caucasus (supposedly common in Southern Italians) 3% middle eastern. No African genes in my background whatsoever. Nothing annoys me more than idiots who make uninformed blanket statements like all Southern Italians have African ancestors, NOT TRUE. Of course the unelected leftist globalist bureaucrats in Brussels are hellbent on destroying the white race in Europe with this African invasion.
we all originate from AFRICA… if we look carefully we will find black brazillians …black cubans… black chinese ect … society has given us lots of misinformation at the end of the day we are on this earth with all of our differences so that we can work it out… no one race …sexual identity… or color is any better than the other … my great grand father was Irish and as of to date i have all types of races in the family I WILL ALWAYS BE BLACK and i am greatful
Cradle of Civilization bro.
You do know that a more recent study was done, and it points to ENGLAND as the first place for human life. So toss Africa out. It’s jumbled Darwin-ism that has been proven wrong.
I’m 8% African And 3.8% Italian:)
Sicilians were never “black”, (regardless of what WASPs thought. What made WASPS arbiters of who is who anyway?) but they were in fact enslaved, en masse, by the Blackamoors, who very much were Black.
Well. TRACY DIMACRO ESP. NEEDS TO READ THIS. BC SHE’S SUCH A SELF HATING AGAINST BLKS. EVEN THO she always says she’s nearly blk etc.etc. I tan… smh no you are white with skin that takes well to sun… leave blks alone…
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