My Dad was born in New Orleans in 1920 and used to recount this story on occasion. He said the cry on the streets was, "Who kill-a da chief?" mocking the Italians.
I am a resident of New Orleans and relatively well informed local amateur historian. The Hennessy murder is little remembered today, but it became an issue of enormous historical importance both in New Orleans and particularly for Sicily and the eventual success of the Risorgimento itself. Only locals realize that its actually Sicily that produced the majority of our non-African immigrant population, not France. It remains the dominant cultural influence and source of heritage for the majority of our anglo population after numerically overwhelming the French in the 19th century. The Mob did indeed start here, but that isn't the important point of this historical event. It was the response to the mass lynchings here in New Orleans and even more importantly in Sicily that had the most profoud effect. While the US press reacted with a bit of a yawn, the Sicilian and Italian press extensively covered the story to the extent that the relatively recently created Italian state affirmatively responded, seeking and getting formal apologies and financial reparations for the victims survivors back home in Sicily. At this time, Sicily had yet to really be absorbed into the Italian state, with a majority of its citizen at best with limited fluency in the Italian language. Sicily had never previously really ethnically, culturally, politically or linguistically been "Italian." In particular many of the Sicilian immigrants to New Orleans were Arbereshe ethnically, a distinct minority of Albanianian origin in Italy most commonly found in Sicily. Because of the local press coverage in Sicily and the notably successful public attempt by the Italian government to stand up for Sicilians, the public response in Sicily was very impactful. For the first time, Sicilians felt like they were truly part of Italy and it changed their perspective on the entire Risorgimento. Italy went from the latest foreign power to conquer Sicily to being a country that Sicily truly felt a part of. In New Orleans the overt anti-Sicilian sentiment expressed by the dying Anglo-French establishment culminating in horrific lynchings really caused the very large and growing local Sicilian community to flex its growing political and economic muscle and actively assume a new pubic identity as a dominant player in the affairs of the city. Sicilians organized and succeeded in politics and became a dominant ethnic and cultural influence to this day.
@Stacey Brown Sicily probably has the most diverse gene pool of any country in the world. You see today the same exact castle construction in 12th century Sicily as you find in England as the same people, the Normans conquered the two places almost simultaneously. Sicily was not a Greek colony, it was considered part of Greek homeland prior to the Roman empire. The finest Greek ruins in the world are found in Sicily today, not Greece. The French, Moors, Berbers, Phoenicians, Carthaginians, Vandals, Ostrogoths, Spaniards and several other people have conquered and populated the country.
I had heard that Irish immigrants who arrived during the famine took over operation of the docks from African Americans. So one reason for animosity could have been a ongoing power struggle between the Irish and Italian "mobs" for control of the docks. This kind of struggle between Irish and Italians happened in other cities in the 1920s as a result of prohibition.
The Irish who came to New Orleans in that period worked digging canals (slave owners didn't care to subject their slaves to such work and risk having them succumb to yellow fever). That was around 40 years or so before the main wave of Sicilian immigration (and Sicilians took over the French Quarter close to the riverfront and docks, as distinct from the Irish Channel neighborhood, which is upriver), by which time the Irish were starting to make inroads in local government.
In India if a Police Officer is Killed another male family member can replace him too keep that income in the family. If you go to a Police Station you may see several young boys waiting outside. These boys are their families replacements and run errands for the police at that station.
@@lovelessissimo Is it? Or is it so sane, it blew your mind?! 🤯 On second thought, it is insane! 😆 A 9 year old brother becoming a detective 🕵️♂️ makes no sense at all.
If it seems odd that the person most likely to have ordered the hit on Chief Hennessy, Carlos Matranga, & Matranga's personal bodyguard, who were also the only two of the 40 people rounded up as suspects that had anything to do with the Mafia, also happened to be the only ones to escape vigilante "justice", it helps to know that Mataranga's nickname was "Millionaire Charlie". And those are 1890 dollars. He & his bodyguard were supposedly personally escorted from the jail in advance of the lynch mob's entrance, slightly lighter in the wallet.
I'm sure the thought that Italy might go to war over the incident had the Americans quaking in their boots. "The Mafia is a thing of the past"--as Maxwell Smart would say, "Missed it by that much."
a shame that few today will understand the Maxwell Smart quote.... But I got a healthy chuckle from it...Picturing him holding his thumb near his index finger....as Agent 99 smiles in the background.
Mine would have started with Ohayō min'na!!! Kurasu wa sesshon-chūdesu!!! (My 1st class everyday in high school was my foreign language class: Japanese)
I would love you to look at my Great Grandfather, Detective Sargeant John B. Goldhammer NYPD. Killed in the line of Duty. Just as you say yourself, History, that deserves to be remembered!
@@otpyrcralphpierre1742 It was the Trump Crime Family that had a force of domestic terrorists assault the Capitol during a joint session of Congress. La Cosa Nostra never would have tried anything like that.
@@otpyrcralphpierre1742 And yet, the bulk of legacy media, social media, and big tech all provide flattering, or at least neutral, coverage of the Big Guy.
GREAT COVERAGE OF A STORY FROM MY HOMETOWN. YOU'VE MUCH MORE INFO THAN I'D REALIZED IN OVER 61 YEARS OF MY LIFE OF LOVING HISTORY. BY THE WAY: THE 'SHABBY' HOUSE PICTURED IS CALLED A 'SHOTGUN' HOUSE- BEING THAT IF YOU FIRED A SHOTGUN INTO THE FRONT DOOR, IT WOULD PASS THROUGH EVERY ROOM TO EXIT THE BACK DOOR UNINTERRUPTED.
Topic idea--one that could include a crossover with Name Explain: the surname, Shakespeare. Are there any Shakespeares still around today? Are they related to the poet and playwright?
Yes. One of my cello students is a descendant of one of William’s brothers who decreed that the firstborn boys born in each generation should be called William Shakespeare. In 2016 when the world celebrated the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death my student invited me to join his family in their celebrations because I love Shakespeare so much. This student’s older brother’s name is Will or William.
As bad as things were here in the United States back then ... still shocks me that Europeans were trying to get here and away from the misery there ... it was worse being Italian in Italy than it was being Italian in the USA ...
I have spent the last five years investigating this matter and have determined that the Italians did not kill Hennessy. I am currently writing a book about it and hopefully it will be finished sometime this year. The so-called Mafia started in Sicily after the Sicilian Vespers of the 13th Century and the lack of American assimilation in America's port cities gave life to those "protection" leagues, not only in New Orleans, but every city on the East Coast. I am the former Chief of the Organized Crime Strike Force of the US Justice Department in New Orleans and an former FBI agent. And a former New Orleans Homicide Detective. I have nearly 40 years of law enforcement experience behind me and placed that experience against any theories to the contrary. It's time the truth is told.
When you say Esposito to a Canadian of my age or older, the brothers from The Soo will come to mind. Has there been any set of brothers that played against each other in a major league championship? Blacks and Bruins alternated being in the finals 70 to 74
I love how they declared the mafia was a thing of the past! What they meant to say was they were going to pretend it didn't exist moving forward.....keep it hush hush. I love my NOLA, but we've never been good at predicting the future!
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The oldest organized crime group in Europe is the Union Corse, or Corsa. They were originally pirates based on, where else, the French island of Corsica. And definitely were in New Orleans first.
With all the people being set free this past year, only to commit more crimes including murders, we need this Mob Justice. Take out those DAs and Judges too.
Good video. Discrimination against Italians was not do to racism. Irish also had a hard start, but that also was not do to racism. Think the word is way overused and has now morphed into any kind of Discrimination.
You are making the same mistake Whoopi Goldberg did a couple of months ago. "Race" is not just a (erroneous) biological concept, definately not over a hundred years ago. The Irish and Italians at the time were not considered "white" in the way we think of today: "In his book The Renegade History of the United States, Thaddeus Russell explains that the first large wave of Irish immigrants worked low-paying jobs-mostly building the canals along the Canadian border-that other Americans wouldn’t do. Like finding out a song you thought was new is actually a 100-year-old remake, the Irish were simultaneously accused of stealing all the good jobs and branded as “lazy” and “shiftless.” They were also thought to be the nonwhite “missing link” between the superior European and the savage African based on stereotypes from the early American media, according to the Boston Globe: In the popular press, the Irish were depicted as subhuman. They were carriers of disease. They were drawn as lazy, clannish, unclean, drunken brawlers who wallowed in crime and bred like rats. Most disturbingly, the Irish were Roman Catholics coming to an overwhelmingly Protestant nation and their devotion to the pope made their allegiance to the United States suspect." Edit tinyurl.com/422n7zja And this illustration. Read the caption: cdn.theatlantic.com/media/mt/tanehisicoates/Scientific_racism_irish.jpg The same thing with Italians, particularly Southern Italians and Sicilians: "As the historian Matthew Frye Jacobson shows in his immigrant history “Whiteness of a Different Color,” the surge of newcomers engendered a national panic and led Americans to adopt a more restrictive, politicized view of how whiteness was to be allocated. Journalists, politicians, social scientists and immigration officials embraced the habit, separating ostensibly white Europeans into “races.” Some were designated “whiter” - and more worthy of citizenship - than others, while some were ranked as too close to blackness to be socially redeemable. The story of how Italian immigrants went from racialized pariah status in the 19th century to white Americans in good standing in the 20th offers a window onto the alchemy through which race is constructed in the United States, and how racial hierarchies can sometimes change. Darker skinned southern Italians endured the penalties of blackness on both sides of the Atlantic. In Italy, Northerners had long held that Southerners - particularly Sicilians - were an “uncivilized” and racially inferior people, too obviously African to be part of Europe." Edit www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/10/12/opinion/columbus-day-italian-american-racism.html I know it is hard to believe but that was the attitudes back then. In a way you fell into the same trap Whoopi did.
@@arrow1414 I will look into it. Thanks for the comment. I will say, my Irish side did change their last name, to a more English sounding last name, back in the 1800s. I do believe it was more do to discrimination against the culture, than race. Is interesting.
@@WinterInTheForest The difference being human, we have minds, but I guess you agree with the discrimination by the English against the Irish and should always be so?
Is there a History Guy video episode for the events of about 30 years later which happened to involve local Italian immigrants -- though not mob-related -- who were attacked with an axe?
The govt actually made Columbus Day a thing after this, to appease the Italian protestors and maybe a good show for the Italian govt as well. I know a lot of Italian Americans who see Columbus Day as a celebration of their heritage and so oppose any discussion of Columbus' genocidal crimes, but knowing the history of how it came about made me think that Columbus Day should honestly probably offend Italian Americans. It was a pittance handed out so the govt wouldn't have to prosecute people who murdered Italians out of hate. It feels condescending to me. Who could celebrate their own condescension and ignore those 11 people who never received an ounce of justice?
They're more similar than one might think. Have you ever listened to the New Orleans accent? Very similar to New York, which one might not expect, seeing as it's in the deepest of the deep South. It's because as a major port city, a lot of the same people were coming and going between them and influencing the dialect.
You migh enjoy reading James Lee Burke's novels about a policeman in New Orleans. Burke's character, Dave Robicheaux, frequently comes up against the New Orleans mob, active since 1870, or the Dixie Mafia, a different group of organized criminals started in the 1960s.
@@Guitcad1 While in the service I spent many a weekend in New Orleans and know exactly what you mean! A best friend at the time was from Jefferson Parish and you'd swear they all sounded like they were from the Bronx!
We got guys who stick a zucchini 🥒where the sun don't shine, we got casinos and a selection of narcotics on every block. That's the downside. We gotta da pizza pie🍕 and the meata ball, so can't complain.
Fascinating video as always. I couldn't help but notice that several of the news paper reports had an upper case 'N' penciled into the page (see 3:07; 5:15; 5:57; 8:42; 10:0310:31) Any explanation?
Not to nit pic but Italians are Not a Race so using the term is wrong in this instance. Bias is the correct term for national entities like Italians, French etc.
Jury had to be made up of non Italians who are not against the death penalty but not *openly* prejudiced against Italians, otherwise they got a fair trial.😐
I used to live in the French Quarter. I’ve walked past that spot a gang of times. “Who killla ‘da Chief?” was the phrase as I recall from my childhood. Funny thing about so called racial slurs, the people that they refer to seem to use those very taboo words to refer to each other all the time. It’s alright when you’re a part of the community that the slur refers to. As for me I’ve always had good luck the with Italian folk……..
i am a bit of a pointless conspiracy theorist and I did not know there was a “mob museum” or that it was in Las Vegas and that just seems really ironic and funny to me? It’s like hmmmmmmmm I wonder who the financial backers of the mob museum could possible be, in Las Vegas? Oh they certainly tell all the old mob history stories totally truthfully eh? yah, I’ll bet so.😅 lol but then again, I have no idea, I have never been there, and I bet it’s fun museum to go to and read the stories, regardless of errr.... uhhh.... who owns or financially backs the so-called “mob museum”.
WOW, Unbelievable history. We knew little to nothing about this. Just goes to show that you can really think what you're doing or saying is Right, yet be so, so, wrong. That's why we need a law book the is above human laws, The Bible. John 3:16
I had expected from the title an explanation of the foundations of the American mafia...however, it was clear from the narration that it was already founded and a going concern by the time of these events. I hate click-bait. I doubt I will watch another video from this channel.
My Dad was born in New Orleans in 1920 and used to recount this story on occasion. He said the cry on the streets was, "Who kill-a da chief?" mocking the Italians.
True. Its still a term that older locals are familiar with.
I am a resident of New Orleans and relatively well informed local amateur historian. The Hennessy murder is little remembered today, but it became an issue of enormous historical importance both in New Orleans and particularly for Sicily and the eventual success of the Risorgimento itself. Only locals realize that its actually Sicily that produced the majority of our non-African immigrant population, not France. It remains the dominant cultural influence and source of heritage for the majority of our anglo population after numerically overwhelming the French in the 19th century. The Mob did indeed start here, but that isn't the important point of this historical event. It was the response to the mass lynchings here in New Orleans and even more importantly in Sicily that had the most profoud effect.
While the US press reacted with a bit of a yawn, the Sicilian and Italian press extensively covered the story to the extent that the relatively recently created Italian state affirmatively responded, seeking and getting formal apologies and financial reparations for the victims survivors back home in Sicily. At this time, Sicily had yet to really be absorbed into the Italian state, with a majority of its citizen at best with limited fluency in the Italian language. Sicily had never previously really ethnically, culturally, politically or linguistically been "Italian." In particular many of the Sicilian immigrants to New Orleans were Arbereshe ethnically, a distinct minority of Albanianian origin in Italy most commonly found in Sicily. Because of the local press coverage in Sicily and the notably successful public attempt by the Italian government to stand up for Sicilians, the public response in Sicily was very impactful. For the first time, Sicilians felt like they were truly part of Italy and it changed their perspective on the entire Risorgimento. Italy went from the latest foreign power to conquer Sicily to being a country that Sicily truly felt a part of.
In New Orleans the overt anti-Sicilian sentiment expressed by the dying Anglo-French establishment culminating in horrific lynchings really caused the very large and growing local Sicilian community to flex its growing political and economic muscle and actively assume a new pubic identity as a dominant player in the affairs of the city. Sicilians organized and succeeded in politics and became a dominant ethnic and cultural influence to this day.
and Uncle Carlos was just a tomato salesman....
Thanks for this.
Wow thanks. I’ve always thought Creole folk had a Sicilian look about them.
@Stacey Brown Sicily probably has the most diverse gene pool of any country in the world. You see today the same exact castle construction in 12th century Sicily as you find in England as the same people, the Normans conquered the two places almost simultaneously. Sicily was not a Greek colony, it was considered part of Greek homeland prior to the Roman empire. The finest Greek ruins in the world are found in Sicily today, not Greece. The French, Moors, Berbers, Phoenicians, Carthaginians, Vandals, Ostrogoths, Spaniards and several other people have conquered and populated the country.
@@adamcohen2632 and I'll now refer you to Christopher Walken. Get back to us...and Y'all have a GOODN.
Do they charge entry to The Mob Museum or just shake you down for any valuables on your person?
They just give you an offer that you can't refuse.
Too funny. Both of you. I never even do the Mob Museum existed.
My wife and I visited the Mob Museum a few years ago, enjoyed it immensely. If you're in Vegas it's definitely worth the time.
"We do offer you insurance, for it would be a pity should you or one of your party somehow get injured while enjoying our lovely museum."
The museum is attached to a casino.
"Arrested for wearing an ill-fitting suit" I wouldn't have lasted long in that era.
I have no fear of that. I don't own a suit.
Arrested for "bad vibes."
Nor I. It's several days since I wore pants.
@@brianmccarthy5557 Interesting Brian. Thanks.
Really liked the history, but the best part was finding out that there is a mob museum! Thanks alot.
How fitting -- in Las Vegas! Cuts down on the lecture and workshop transportation fees, I guess.
Once again a historically relevant and very interesting video. Thanks THG!
History Guy, the look on your face as you said “the Mafia is a thing of the past!” was just perfect.👍🏻😂
I had heard that Irish immigrants who arrived during the famine took over operation of the docks from African Americans. So one reason for animosity could have been a ongoing power struggle between the Irish and Italian "mobs" for control of the docks. This kind of struggle between Irish and Italians happened in other cities in the 1920s as a result of prohibition.
The Irish who came to New Orleans in that period worked digging canals (slave owners didn't care to subject their slaves to such work and risk having them succumb to yellow fever). That was around 40 years or so before the main wave of Sicilian immigration (and Sicilians took over the French Quarter close to the riverfront and docks, as distinct from the Irish Channel neighborhood, which is upriver), by which time the Irish were starting to make inroads in local government.
You know that you should never waste any Hennessey!🥃 I'll drink to that!!
Constipated - here’s to ya’. 🥃🥃
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My Irish forebearers would be aghast that I dislike alcohol, but I'm with you in spirit (so to speak).
@@sherylcascadden4988 I like a girl like you . Great Minds drink a like! Is that my liver talking ?
In India if a Police Officer is Killed another male family member can replace him too keep that income in the family.
If you go to a Police Station you may see several young boys waiting outside. These boys are their families replacements and run errands for the police at that station.
That's insane.
@@lovelessissimo Is it? Or is it so sane, it blew your mind?! 🤯 On second thought, it is insane! 😆 A 9 year old brother becoming a detective 🕵️♂️ makes no sense at all.
If it seems odd that the person most likely to have ordered the hit on Chief Hennessy, Carlos Matranga, & Matranga's personal bodyguard, who were also the only two of the 40 people rounded up as suspects that had anything to do with the Mafia, also happened to be the only ones to escape vigilante "justice", it helps to know that Mataranga's nickname was "Millionaire Charlie". And those are 1890 dollars. He & his bodyguard were supposedly personally escorted from the jail in advance of the lynch mob's entrance, slightly lighter in the wallet.
The Mob Museum is a pretty good place for anyone with an interest in organized crime & the history of Las Vegas.
Another great video. I would love to see one on the history of the Pinkerton Detective Agency.
3:13 Missed opportunity, regarding the “bandit flag”:
“Because don’t all good stories involve pirates?”
Or brigands, which are just landlubber pirates.
Aye matey, they does indeed.
I'm sure the thought that Italy might go to war over the incident had the Americans quaking in their boots. "The Mafia is a thing of the past"--as Maxwell Smart would say, "Missed it by that much."
1890 was the Fin de Siecle for an important reason I guess. Fin de siècle. Yes probably that newspaper was already owned.
a shame that few today will understand the Maxwell Smart quote.... But I got a healthy chuckle from it...Picturing him holding his thumb near his index finger....as Agent 99 smiles in the background.
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Mine would have started with Ohayō min'na!!! Kurasu wa sesshon-chūdesu!!! (My 1st class everyday in high school was my foreign language class: Japanese)
I always like these story’s with the good guy in it. A little controversial though but great episode! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I would love you to look at my Great Grandfather, Detective Sargeant John B. Goldhammer NYPD. Killed in the line of Duty. Just as you say yourself, History, that deserves to be remembered!
As a New Orleanian, I love love love this episode. The illustrations of old NOLA are especially good.
Question: Have you ever done an episode on teh rescue of the Lipizzaner Horses in WWII? If not, could you?
You make my Mondays!
New Orleans Natives: We're gonna say as few letters from our home town's name as possible.
The History Guy: Every letter deserves to be remembered!
With the most syllables as possible.
But, J Edgar Hoover said their was no such thing as the mafia. Why would he lie?
Because they blackmailed Hoover, I read the mafia had compromising photos of JEH and another man ..
Because the Mafia had pics of him in Drag
JEH didn't get rich on FBI pay.
He had the worlds largest porn collection at the time of his death.
HA! 🤣
I had no idea about any of this. My In-Laws are from Italy, but none are from Sicily. Thanks so much for the history lesson.
Some years later, Louis Armstrong's first steady work as a musician was in Matranga's saloon.
And now the drug cartels make the mafia look like amateurs!
and the US politicians make them all look like slackers
But the IRS still makes the mafia and drug cartels look like our friends ...
The Brandon Regime is the Expert of all Experts in Mafia-like activity.
@@otpyrcralphpierre1742 It was the Trump Crime Family that had a force of domestic terrorists assault the Capitol during a joint session of Congress. La Cosa Nostra never would have tried anything like that.
@@otpyrcralphpierre1742 And yet, the bulk of legacy media, social media, and big tech all provide flattering, or at least neutral, coverage of the Big Guy.
That was a great episode. Although it would have been better with some pirates! I guess bandits are the next best thing to pirates…lol!
Thanks for the lesson.
GREAT COVERAGE OF A STORY FROM MY HOMETOWN. YOU'VE MUCH MORE INFO THAN I'D REALIZED IN OVER 61 YEARS OF MY LIFE OF LOVING HISTORY.
BY THE WAY: THE 'SHABBY' HOUSE PICTURED IS CALLED A 'SHOTGUN' HOUSE- BEING THAT IF YOU FIRED A SHOTGUN INTO THE FRONT DOOR, IT WOULD PASS THROUGH EVERY ROOM TO EXIT THE BACK DOOR UNINTERRUPTED.
The Mob Museum is actually pretty awesome. I go every time I go to Vegas.
Topic idea--one that could include a crossover with Name Explain: the surname, Shakespeare.
Are there any Shakespeares still around today? Are they related to the poet and playwright?
Yes. One of my cello students is a descendant of one of William’s brothers who decreed that the firstborn boys born in each generation should be called William Shakespeare. In 2016 when the world celebrated the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death my student invited me to join his family in their celebrations because I love Shakespeare so much. This student’s older brother’s name is Will or William.
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As bad as things were here in the United States back then ... still shocks me that Europeans were trying to get here and away from the misery there ... it was worse being Italian in Italy than it was being Italian in the USA ...
I have spent the last five years investigating this matter and have determined that the Italians did not kill Hennessy. I am currently writing a book about it and hopefully it will be finished sometime this year. The so-called Mafia started in Sicily after the Sicilian Vespers of the 13th Century and the lack of American assimilation in America's port cities gave life to those "protection" leagues, not only in New Orleans, but every city on the East Coast. I am the former Chief of the Organized Crime Strike Force of the US Justice Department in New Orleans and an former FBI agent. And a former New Orleans Homicide Detective. I have nearly 40 years of law enforcement experience behind me and placed that experience against any theories to the contrary. It's time the truth is told.
When you say Esposito to a Canadian of my age or older, the brothers from The Soo will come to mind. Has there been any set of brothers that played against each other in a major league championship? Blacks and Bruins alternated being in the finals 70 to 74
I love how they declared the mafia was a thing of the past! What they meant to say was they were going to pretend it didn't exist moving forward.....keep it hush hush. I love my NOLA, but we've never been good at predicting the future!
It went from bad to worse in New Orleans. "The Empire of Sin" by Gary Krist is an eye opener.
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I also want to know what an 1880’s style bandit flag in New Orleans looked like.
Love the Statler and Waldorf tchotchke on the second shelf. :-)
The oldest organized crime group in Europe is the Union Corse, or Corsa. They were originally pirates based on, where else, the French island of Corsica. And definitely were in New Orleans first.
@@oktoday8323 so? It's an island. Everybody had a sailor's weekend there. For 1000 years. But, the Union Corsa was there first.
Victims of Judge Lynch.
The Mob Museum in Las Vegas is a great experience with lots of history and exhibits.
"Vendetta" may be an Italian word, but it's awfully close to "vigilantism," something Americans didn't need Italian immigrants to teach them about.
The Mob Museum in Las Vega, how ironic is that?
Probably more deliberate than ironic.
Any irony in a mob museum in Las Vegas of all places?
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Excellent!
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Can one be racist against a person for being Italian? Does that count as a race?
A MUCH misused term today.
Those damn ruffians!!!! Pardon my vile language !!!!
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With all the people being set free this past year, only to commit more crimes including murders, we need this Mob Justice.
Take out those DAs and Judges too.
Holy shit I just watched the movie Vendetta yesterday which was about this
Good video. Discrimination against Italians was not do to racism. Irish also had a hard start, but that also was not do to racism. Think the word is way overused and has now morphed into any kind of Discrimination.
You are making the same mistake Whoopi Goldberg did a couple of months ago. "Race" is not just a (erroneous) biological concept, definately not over a hundred years ago. The Irish and Italians at the time were not considered "white" in the way we think of today:
"In his book The Renegade History of the United States, Thaddeus Russell explains that the first large wave of Irish immigrants worked low-paying jobs-mostly building the canals along the Canadian border-that other Americans wouldn’t do. Like finding out a song you thought was new is actually a 100-year-old remake, the Irish were simultaneously accused of stealing all the good jobs and branded as “lazy” and “shiftless.” They were also thought to be the nonwhite “missing link” between the superior European and the savage African based on stereotypes from the early American media, according to the Boston Globe:
In the popular press, the Irish were depicted as subhuman. They were carriers of disease. They were drawn as lazy, clannish, unclean, drunken brawlers who wallowed in crime and bred like rats. Most disturbingly, the Irish were Roman Catholics coming to an overwhelmingly Protestant nation and their devotion to the pope made their allegiance to the United States suspect."
Edit
tinyurl.com/422n7zja
And this illustration. Read the caption:
cdn.theatlantic.com/media/mt/tanehisicoates/Scientific_racism_irish.jpg
The same thing with Italians, particularly Southern Italians and Sicilians:
"As the historian Matthew Frye Jacobson shows in his immigrant history “Whiteness of a Different Color,” the surge of newcomers engendered a national panic and led Americans to adopt a more restrictive, politicized view of how whiteness was to be allocated. Journalists, politicians, social scientists and immigration officials embraced the habit, separating ostensibly white Europeans into “races.” Some were designated “whiter” - and more worthy of citizenship - than others, while some were ranked as too close to blackness to be socially redeemable. The story of how Italian immigrants went from racialized pariah status in the 19th century to white Americans in good standing in the 20th offers a window onto the alchemy through which race is constructed in the United States, and how racial hierarchies can sometimes change.
Darker skinned southern Italians endured the penalties of blackness on both sides of the Atlantic. In Italy, Northerners had long held that Southerners - particularly Sicilians - were an “uncivilized” and racially inferior people, too obviously African to be part of Europe."
Edit
www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/10/12/opinion/columbus-day-italian-american-racism.html
I know it is hard to believe but that was the attitudes back then. In a way you fell into the same trap Whoopi did.
@@arrow1414 I will look into it. Thanks for the comment. I will say, my Irish side did change their last name, to a more English sounding last name, back in the 1800s. I do believe it was more do to discrimination against the culture, than race. Is interesting.
Discrimination is just the group immune system fighting anything which may disrupt homogeneity.
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The difference being human, we have minds, but I guess you agree with the discrimination by the English against the Irish and should always be so?
@@arrow1414 I believe there is a naturally collective bias present in all beings, including human.
If two guys were spotted murdering Henessey and they arrested 18 then most had to be guilty of only having a vowell at the end of thier name
Is there a History Guy video episode for the events of about 30 years later which happened to involve local Italian immigrants -- though not mob-related -- who were attacked with an axe?
Well, at least in the end it set a tradition of a stellar police force and no organized crime in New Orleans.
Excellent video
WHERE DID YOU GET THE STATLER & WALDORF ITEM???? (Oh, nice show, love murder stuff from old, awesome tie!)
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@thehistoryguy any suggestions on Italian American mafia history reads?
Ah, N'awlins.
I lived there, or thereabout for 20 years.
Hate the place.
Omgosh this was crazier than the wild west!
Thank You🛂
Great movie on this called "Vendetta"
Good one.
I heard that the Camorra started as a vigilante police force.
Oh myyyy
The govt actually made Columbus Day a thing after this, to appease the Italian protestors and maybe a good show for the Italian govt as well. I know a lot of Italian Americans who see Columbus Day as a celebration of their heritage and so oppose any discussion of Columbus' genocidal crimes, but knowing the history of how it came about made me think that Columbus Day should honestly probably offend Italian Americans. It was a pittance handed out so the govt wouldn't have to prosecute people who murdered Italians out of hate. It feels condescending to me. Who could celebrate their own condescension and ignore those 11 people who never received an ounce of justice?
I kept having to remind myself that this was New Orleans and not New York (or Chicago)
They're more similar than one might think. Have you ever listened to the New Orleans accent? Very similar to New York, which one might not expect, seeing as it's in the deepest of the deep South. It's because as a major port city, a lot of the same people were coming and going between them and influencing the dialect.
You migh enjoy reading James Lee Burke's novels about a policeman in New Orleans. Burke's character, Dave Robicheaux, frequently comes up against the New Orleans mob, active since 1870, or the Dixie Mafia, a different group of organized criminals started in the 1960s.
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@@Guitcad1 While in the service I spent many a weekend in New Orleans and know exactly what you mean! A best friend at the time was from Jefferson Parish and you'd swear they all sounded like they were from the Bronx!
We got guys who stick a zucchini 🥒where the sun don't shine, we got casinos and a selection of narcotics on every block. That's the downside. We gotta da pizza pie🍕 and the meata ball, so can't complain.
Wow cool story.
That murder was big at the time.
The 1st Louisiana cavalry where confederates not union.
I was thinking that.
Well thank God "the Mafia is a thing of the past." Can you imagine what New Orleans or America would be like, if the Mafia still existed?!
Fascinating video as always. I couldn't help but notice that several of the news paper reports had an upper case 'N' penciled into the page (see 3:07; 5:15; 5:57; 8:42; 10:03 10:31) Any explanation?
Wait, why can't I subscribe?
Was anyone made an offer he couldn’t refuse?
Not to nit pic but Italians are Not a Race so using the term is wrong in this instance.
Bias is the correct term for national entities like Italians, French etc.
Mixing up genetics (physical DNA) and nationality (a political construct) is common and usually wrong.
damn guineas
If only that news paper headline had been true eh, would ahve been better for all concerned.
Populism and nationalism and accusations of Foul Play when you don't get the results you want. Nice to know that we have evolved Beyond such pettiness
Mob violence knows no politics.
Back in the Saddle Again
I'm from Joisey, everybody there knows there ain't no such ting as da mafia.
Is it "es-pose-ee-toe" or "es-pause-it-oh"?
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A trip to the mob museum for a video makes your vegas trips tax deductible.
Jury had to be made up of non Italians who are not against the death penalty but not *openly* prejudiced against Italians, otherwise they got a fair trial.😐
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I used to live in the French Quarter. I’ve walked past that spot a gang of times. “Who killla ‘da Chief?” was the phrase as I recall from my childhood. Funny thing about so called racial slurs, the people that they refer to seem to use those very taboo words to refer to each other all the
time. It’s alright when you’re a part of the community
that the slur refers to. As for me I’ve always had good luck the with Italian folk……..
i am a bit of a pointless conspiracy theorist and I did not know there was a “mob museum” or that it was in Las Vegas and that just seems really ironic and funny to me? It’s like hmmmmmmmm I wonder who the financial backers of the mob museum could possible be, in Las Vegas? Oh they certainly tell all the old mob history stories totally truthfully eh? yah, I’ll bet so.😅 lol but then again, I have no idea, I have never been there, and I bet it’s fun museum to go to and read the stories, regardless of errr.... uhhh.... who owns or financially backs the so-called “mob museum”.
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Many of the leading Sicilian mobsters were Sephardic jews.
WOW, Unbelievable history. We knew little to nothing about this. Just goes to show that you can really think what you're doing or saying is Right, yet be so, so, wrong. That's why we need a law book the is above human laws, The Bible. John 3:16
I missed the date. Was it January 6th 😉🫣
Doubtful... besides, unauthorized tourism is only a big deal to the MSM.
I had expected from the title an explanation of the foundations of the American mafia...however, it was clear from the narration that it was already founded and a going concern by the time of these events.
I hate click-bait.
I doubt I will watch another video from this channel.
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