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In reply to the discussion: My husband calls him Corleone. [View all]leftstreet
(36,098 posts)32. You're not wrong, it's just not important
When large groups of Italian Americans band together to fight back against the systemic and cultural sanctioning of rape, murder, incarceration, banishment and disenfranchisement experienced by groups like women and people of color - DU will accommodate that.
Oh wait.
That doesn't happen to Italian Americans simply because Hollywood has stereotyped them
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ha! well, I think we can all agree that this new Trump croney has no ethics, so shame away!
hlthe2b
Jul 2017
#9
Uh, its not racism. Italian is an ethnicity or a nationality, not a race.
Stinky The Clown
Jul 2017
#83
300 Black people died in Greenwood. Are you trying to claim New Orleans was worse for Sicilians?
VermontKevin
Jul 2017
#71
Not at all, but they did pass a law prohibiting Italian immigration to America
Drahthaardogs
Jul 2017
#72
Well, I'm gonna be glib and stupid and go eat. My daughter made eggplant parm.
VermontKevin
Jul 2017
#77
Please explain when the lynching of 2 Sicilian prisoners is determined, the largest mass lynching in
MiddleClass
Jul 2017
#95
So this is what's been foremost in your thoughts? SO foremost that you joined DU to post this?
Stinky The Clown
Jul 2017
#47
Right. He's much like Jared and Ivanka in that way: well-polished, well-spoken, attractive...
Hekate
Jul 2017
#14
Someone here is really looking for the Pity Party, Assimilated White Ethnicity Chapter
Hekate
Jul 2017
#93
This thread is sad. I thought that posters on a liberal site wouldn't fall for ethnic stereotypes
SharonClark
Jul 2017
#94