Reply #19: Wow! I never knew the extent of anti-Italian activities.

[Kat45]

I'm Italian-American, and my mother talks about having seen bias against Italians in her life, but I didn't know things in the more distant past went to the extreme as lynchings. I did know that Italians were often equated to blacks and treated in a similar way. When I was a kid, the Irish kids were always telling Italian jokes and using ethnic slurs for Italians. And recently someone (a WASP) told me that his father always said he never trusted Italians because they might be in the Mafia.