The grizzly history Mazy mentions in Book Four about Italians being lynched in New Orleans. This is important to remember, because there is a white washing afoot, primarily by Critical Race Theory, to delete white ethnic history and reinvent it as Disneyfied. I received the Disneyfied version in high school in the 1980s under the predecessor of CRT. The Irish Potato Famine was missing from the textbook and curriculum … missing! A huge political fight ensued, ending with states passing laws to teach about the Famine. That it came to laws having to be passed is a doozy of how badly CRT wants white ethnic the history deleted. Nothing bad ever happened to white people, is the stance of CRT.

Well, here is NOLA history to say different. Up your fung gool, bougie white left CRT!

“A mob of tens of thousands of angry men surrounded a New Orleans jail, shouting angry slurs and calling for blood. By the time they were done, 11 men would be dead—shot and mutilated in an act of brutal mob violence that took place in front of a cheering crowd. It was 1891, and the crowd was about to participate in one of the largest lynchings in U.S. history.” –History Channel.

No one was convicted for the murders and mutilations!!!

“The March 14, 1891, New Orleans lynchings were the murders of 11 Italian Americans and immigrants in New Orleans, Louisiana, by a mob for their alleged role in the murder of police chief David Hennessy after some of them had been acquitted at trial. It was the largest single mass lynching in American history.”

“The incident had serious national repercussions. The Italian consul Pasquale Corte in New Orleans registered a protest and left the city in May 1891 at his government’s direction. The New York Times published his lengthy statement charging city politicians with responsibility for the lynching of the Italians.^[6] Italy cut off diplomatic relations with the United States, sparking rumors of war. Increased anti-Italian sentiment led to calls for restrictions on immigration. The word “Mafia” entered the American lexicon, and the awareness of the Italian mafioso became established in the popular imagination of Americans.

“The lynchings were the subject of the 1999 HBO film Vendetta, starring Christopher Walken. The film is based on a 1977 history book of the same name by Richard Gambino.

– Wikipedia

*My paternal grandfather, the sons of immigrants from Naples, loathed the Mafia. They had been a big reason southern Italians and Sicilians left their ancestral homes. My grandpa moved his family out of Brooklyn, NY, to (then) no where, back of beyond Long Island just to keep his son, my father, from being recruited by the Mafia.* K.J.

“New Orleans Apologizes for 1891 Lynching of Italian-Americans” – Smithsonian Magazine. The Washington Post.

“New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell is set to issue an apology to Italian-Americans” – CNN. The year was 2019.