Race in America: Historical treatment of Italians, 'White passing' family members

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  • Опубліковано 29 лис 2024

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  • @nytn
    @nytn Рік тому +51

    Thanks so much for having me on the show!

    • @Premium_YouTuber
      @Premium_YouTuber Рік тому +2

      As soon as I seen that picture, I knew it was your family.
      And I've never even met you. LOL.❤❤❤ God bless 🙏

    • @chumajamesnxele106
      @chumajamesnxele106 Рік тому +2

      I never thought it'd be you guys representing us. Dope🔥❤

    • @nytn
      @nytn Рік тому +1

      @@Premium_UA-camr Thats awesome!

    • @nytn
      @nytn Рік тому +1

      @Estelle Cadiz

    • @Gianluca-
      @Gianluca- 11 місяців тому

      You are a liberal 🤡🤡.and Italians are not the same from Alps to Sicily.

  • @joederocco9321
    @joederocco9321 8 місяців тому +17

    remember italians were hanged and were slaves in the south. and how they were beaten by cops and non italians up north cause they didnt speak english. and italians are they only true latins since latin was born in rome italy 3000 yrs ago. spanish culture is castillian. we were considered a minority and were discriminatd against bad and it happened to me also

    • @estebangarcia747
      @estebangarcia747 Місяць тому

      latin and latinos are 2 different things

    • @estebangarcia747
      @estebangarcia747 Місяць тому

      italians are meditarraneans

    • @joederocco9321
      @joederocco9321 Місяць тому +2

      @@estebangarcia747latino is fake its man made the proper term is hispanic or if mexican chicano

    • @Funnymoney209
      @Funnymoney209 Місяць тому

      @@joederocco9321Chicano js mexican American tho

  • @Gianluca-
    @Gianluca- 11 місяців тому +12

    Treatment of South Italians..North and Central Italians barely went to USA..

  • @jcortese3300
    @jcortese3300 Рік тому +9

    We all have so much in common with one another -- humanity can learn to bond over our shared troubles and extend sympathy and compassion to one another over what our ancestors endured, or we can fragment and keep resentments going into the future. Danielle's efforts are moving us in the direction of compassion and understanding.

  • @pamelahomeyer748
    @pamelahomeyer748 Рік тому +15

    My great-grandfather's name Italian name was Saverio but people in America called him the Black Sam because he was darker than any other person named Sam on his work site

    • @Nome_utente_generico
      @Nome_utente_generico Рік тому +3

      Hi, Saverio is a very uncommon name used in the city where I was born and raised in the deep south of Italy. 100 years ago it was a fishing or farming area, but with 2500 years of history behind it. Greetings.

    • @Gianluca-
      @Gianluca- 11 місяців тому +3

      Your great grandfathert was a terun and South Italian at most, because Central and North Italian are very different.

    • @extremathule982
      @extremathule982 6 місяців тому

      @@Gianluca- Si, l'Italia dovrebbe essere divisa e separata da voi italiani.

    • @lisafiore7081
      @lisafiore7081 4 місяці тому

      ​@@Nome_utente_genericoReally, it is an uncommon name? I now of many Saverios.

  • @StevenGianatasio
    @StevenGianatasio 6 місяців тому +5

    I'm a second generation born in the United States. My Grandfather changed his first name to Herman and all of his brothers and sisters also changed their name and last name to survive here in the States and easily passed as white because our family was light skinned Southern Italians.

    • @lisafiore7081
      @lisafiore7081 4 місяці тому +2

      Why? That is horrible! You should change your name back to the original!

    • @lisafiore7081
      @lisafiore7081 4 місяці тому

      That is so sad! Irish ppl did that too. I really think that it is imperative that u change your last name back to the original Italian name!

    • @atkinsjoe5754
      @atkinsjoe5754 2 місяці тому

      My eyes are blueand my hair is grey with honey
      I’m from central Sicily where the people there have a lot of Viking blood

  • @tonymalerba1067
    @tonymalerba1067 Рік тому +21

    I grew up in st. Catherine's Ontario Canada .
    I was harassed ever day at school for no other reason than being Italian.
    My teachers were no better to me.
    The fact that I was born in Canada meant nothing.
    If I could meet all those who were RACIST to me from teachers to kids it would not be pleasant and I guarantee they would come out on the losing end, ALL OF THEM. Especially you James McMillan.
    My childhood in Ontario was pure hell. It killed any chance of bonding to Canada and killed my self esteem for decades.
    I'm far prouder of being Italian than Canadian. A sad commentary on Canada.

    • @lucianomezzetta4332
      @lucianomezzetta4332 Рік тому +6

      And it is said Italians did not suffer from racism in the Americas!

    • @MrHtjet
      @MrHtjet 9 місяців тому +3

      This reminds me of stories from Italian Calgarians Alberta's..

    • @joederocco9321
      @joederocco9321 8 місяців тому +5

      keep your chin up

    • @damteman
      @damteman 6 місяців тому +1

      Aren't italians white?? Like aren't they european

    • @joederocco9321
      @joederocco9321 6 місяців тому +3

      @@damteman no. italy is on the mediteranean and were mixed with arab and some african and rome italy is the birthplace of latin culture making italians the only latins

  • @AppalachianHeartwood
    @AppalachianHeartwood Рік тому +14

    You did great! Love the work you've accomplished. More need to hear this story and work to discover their own.

    • @nytn
      @nytn Рік тому +3

      Thank you so much

  • @TheMMFamily9
    @TheMMFamily9 Рік тому +4

    I loved that they chose to interview you on this video subject matter ❤ 😊 you did a wonderful job ,you always do ❤😊

  • @whoamI-in9jq
    @whoamI-in9jq Рік тому +44

    It's funning how they get accepted and start threating black folks the same if not worse

    • @tula1433
      @tula1433 Рік тому +1

      They got accepted via HARD WORK and assimilating. Care to explain to me why there were MORE fathers in black homes in 1960 then there are now? Why the single motherhood rate or crime rates have skyrocketed since civil rights happened? It’s a culture issue, not a race issue. Italian culture is about hard work and family, that’s why you don’t see gangs of Italian teens looting and rioting and killing their own people in the streets. When your culture glorifies “no snitching” “prison pride” “scamming/dealing/hustling” “shooting” “side chicks” “baby daddies” this is what you get. Italian Americans successfully assimilated and earned their respect!!!

    • @yvonneplant9434
      @yvonneplant9434 Рік тому +7

      It's ironic.

    • @bubblybubbles4023
      @bubblybubbles4023 Рік тому

      Most non-blacks are anti-black anyway, but the minute white people accept them they really start showing out with black people then.

    • @ToddJames-vi3mc
      @ToddJames-vi3mc Рік тому +1

      @ecadizfles if what you say is so then those who did it first were justified if those that joined them did the same!

    • @TSwizzle777
      @TSwizzle777 Рік тому +1

      ​@@yvonneplant9434you're not helping.

  • @tarr3653
    @tarr3653 Рік тому +25

    She looks like she could be mixed black/white. I understand what she says about genealogy doing great things for this country. Humanity will always strive to create separation between one group and another for the purpose of privilege. If that privilege is threatened, they will deny, cover up or simply lie to protect their status.

    • @giorgiodifrancesco4590
      @giorgiodifrancesco4590 Рік тому +4

      @@anjelinatravelsThe discrimination of Italians was not a racial problem. Italians had a different culture and a different religion (they were catholics). Italian as black and italian as racial mix are american invention based upon wasp naughtiness. Come to Italy and see with your eyes. Here in Italy we laugh very much about that. Actually, here, people were getting married among neighbors when Italians immigrated to America

    • @sgladden39
      @sgladden39 Рік тому

      She had African ancestry

    • @giorgiodifrancesco4590
      @giorgiodifrancesco4590 Рік тому +1

      @@koschmx No comment. My great grandfather worked 75 years and died in America. Please stop talking about italians. You don't know nothing of Italy.

    • @giorgiodifrancesco4590
      @giorgiodifrancesco4590 Рік тому +1

      @@koschmx Even suitcases travel.

    • @Gianluca-
      @Gianluca- 11 місяців тому

      That girl is mixed infact and is fixated with Italians because probably she is insecure. Prejudice against Italians have never been skin based.

  • @bernardtaylor8975
    @bernardtaylor8975 9 місяців тому +3

    I'm very glad that you are now putting forth this missing piece of history. When I was a student studying in Rome, I had a professor named Carla Bianco who talked about immigration patterns amongst Italian immigrants. She taught a lot about the experiences of Italians especially Southern Italians and specifically Sicilians and their treatments and abuses in the United States. Now I'm thinking about in the mid-1970s while I was studying in Rome. I've mention many times the story that you are now presenting on your podcast. I'm so glad that the younger generation of people have taken up that mantle. Therefore, I would like to thank you on behalf of my former Professor Carla Bianca send me for bringing us to the consciousness of so many people. I continue to follow your podcast with great interest and enthusiasm. Much respect!

  • @deborahroberts2777
    @deborahroberts2777 Рік тому +10

    You would think they would remember this and be different, now the italians are treating africans in italy so badly its unimaginable to hear the stories.

    • @areswalker5647
      @areswalker5647 Рік тому +4

      Sister, Italians have treated Italians terribly before any other immigrants could receive similar treatment (strong racism of northern Italians towards southern Italians)

    • @lucianomezzetta4332
      @lucianomezzetta4332 Рік тому +2

      WHAT? Give me some examples or is it too
      unimaginable!?

    • @ruthcandice4336
      @ruthcandice4336 6 місяців тому

      @@lucianomezzetta4332Googles free look it up.

  • @All5AJz
    @All5AJz Рік тому +13

    I am from Louisiana the deep Cajun area. I
    Cajuns were treated as bad as the Black's and Italian's.
    My great grandma was a secret wet nurse for many malnourished infants from poor diets of those 3 groups.
    She said she was 13 cent payday from slavery in the cotten fields.

    • @Lioness1499
      @Lioness1499 Рік тому

      CAajun are ethics identity and has nothing to do with races ot nationality. There basic racial identites which happens to be Cacusiods, Mongoliods and Negriods. I was born in Louisiana as well and there a Cacusiods who adapted the Cajun culture. Nonetheless they are still Cacusiods l. There are also Negriod people who adopted the Cajun culture as well yet they are still Negriod. Just as there are creole who Negriods racially
      Individuals who do not see some who practice or adopted the Cajun is not considered racist. They people are prejudices. Prejudice means a perceive prospective of someone ethnicity. All people have preferences it is call the power of choice or the power to choose.This is a divine given to all of mankind that was given to us by the creator.
      It my prayer that people would come to knowledge of divine truth and seek that which is good and pure. In doing so much of the hate, confusion and disinformation can be eradicated from our society.

    • @All5AJz
      @All5AJz Рік тому +3

      @@Lioness1499 you saying absolutely shows me you weren't in th racist south.
      Our culture is very much treated like the others.
      My Mamaw was beaten when she spoke French instead of English.
      How dare you tell us how we were treated.

    • @All5AJz
      @All5AJz Рік тому +1

      @@Lioness1499 your white your words say it all. Whites tell others how they feel. Whites diminished history into an untrue tail where they are the heros.
      Coonass wasn't towards the blacks it is a name that they call us to this day.
      Part of a blacks ass ... you have no clue what anyone suffered under colonists.

    • @All5AJz
      @All5AJz Рік тому

      @@Lioness1499 adopted lmao you steal everything and say it ain't bad don't you.... your from Whites I am from deep Cajun history not the parts you make up but the parts where blacks where beaten to death and Cajuns were spat on for 13 cents a day.

    • @All5AJz
      @All5AJz Рік тому

      @@Lioness1499 adopted our culture is cultural appropriation you white Patty.
      Do you really believe your words.
      You act like your innocent by saying adopted our culture but that is far from truth. You stealing our ways and calling it adopted like you choice wasn't hurting the real suffering of Cajun people.
      They worked the plantations and weren't paid much more then 13 for 12 hours of cotten picking.
      I detest your words because you stealing our ways and act like it admiration when your white and boring so steal our ways or Italian ways or even our Black inslaved peoples cultures because salt is boring even you know it.
      Adopted lmao you stole.

  • @Babu-kr3cr
    @Babu-kr3cr Рік тому +15

    Well how about the Sacco and Vanzetti incident in the 1920's where they were executed for being anarchists? I think they were framed. If you say any kind of slang name to an Italian, like and old Italian they get furious. New Jersey's largest ethnic group is Italians, and they really established themselves there. You don't get the feeling that Italians are looked down on unless you go to the more rural northern and western areas. Then you hear people bad mouthing them and alluding to them not being white.
    When Jersey Shore came out and they were calling each other Guidos, a lot of the old Italians went nuts. It ended up being the most popular show in MTV history and is still going strong. They owned the term and made it their own. Now it is kind of a cool cachet thing where they do GTL, gym tan laundry, and it is funny.
    Italians are a great people. I think the local yokels are just intimidated. This country was built on the exploitation of others. Italians not only have a keen mind and many talents, but they have hearts and are accepting of others. They judge you for who you are, not something petty like how white your skin is or isn't.
    I heard US soldiers loved pizza so much after being stationed in Naples and southern Italy in WW II, that Italians and pizzas got to be very popular. That is a dumb inroad to acceptance, but whatever. Italians used to make pizza at the end of the day to clean debris out of the oven from baking bread is what I heard. That is how you would get charred crumbs on the bottom.

    • @annecinturati2794
      @annecinturati2794 Рік тому +1

      About 20 years ago, I meet a German U S solider who was stanioied in Sicily during WWII. He meet a couple who asked if he would exchange some of his caned food knows as K- rations in exchange for 🍕 pizzas. The solider agreed knowing that people on the Island had little food to surviv on. Also he realized the couple would have a small reserve of food supply that didn't spoil like fresh preoduce. Now the solider had no idea what pizza was until he tasted it. From then on he fell in love with pizza, and made sure when he returned to the States that pizza 🍕 would become a staple in his diety. With joy he mentioned that the food exchange was the best deal he ever made.

    • @lucianomezzetta4332
      @lucianomezzetta4332 Рік тому +2

      They were innocent. So are you implying some Anglo calling you a WOP is OK now?

    • @giorgiodifrancesco4590
      @giorgiodifrancesco4590 5 місяців тому +1

      Actually, exactly the opposite is true regarding pizza: pizza was made to take advantage of the excessive initial heat of the oven, which would have burned ordinary bread. My great-grandfather was a baker, so I know this.

    • @Babu-kr3cr
      @Babu-kr3cr 5 місяців тому

      @@lucianomezzetta4332 Most Italians have been here for generations already. They aren't touchy about it. The older ones might care.

    • @Babu-kr3cr
      @Babu-kr3cr 5 місяців тому

      @@giorgiodifrancesco4590 It was some kind of scrap food though that they would sell for cheap. Now one-minute pizzas are $25 in the USA, making them elitist food.

  • @SiskoBell
    @SiskoBell Рік тому +26

    All injustice is wrong. I'm curious why there is such animosity against Blacks by large swaths of the Italian community, now that they achieved whiteness. One would have hoped that the Italian community maintained the sense of intersectionality they had back in the 19th century.
    I have to say, I also find it interesting that now that Foundational Black Americans are pushing for our long deserved reparations, we're seeing all kinds of media pieces discussing the history and culture of other groups.

    • @tula1433
      @tula1433 Рік тому +1

      They got accepted via HARD WORK and assimilating. Care to explain to me why there were MORE fathers in black homes in 1960 then there are now? Why the single motherhood rate or crime rates have skyrocketed since civil rights happened? It’s a culture issue, not a race issue. Italian culture is about hard work and family, that’s why you don’t see gangs of Italian teens looting and rioting and killing their own people in the streets. When your culture glorifies “no snitching” “prison pride” “scamming/dealing/hustling” “shooting” “side chicks” “baby daddies” this is what you get. Italian Americans successfully assimilated and earned their respect!!!

    • @tula1433
      @tula1433 Рік тому +1

      Will Italian Americans or Irish Americans be getting reparations also? What about the most marginalized group of all of history the homosexuals? You know, the same homosexuals the black community treats like garbage? I guess black gay and trans lives don’t matter though. Blacks need to stop protesting the dead violent felon in the subway that was subdued by a white man, and go protest in Chicago where other blacks are killing each other in epidemic numbers.

    • @ToddJames-vi3mc
      @ToddJames-vi3mc Рік тому

      Exactly! That rapist blood is full of hate!

    • @achimjeffersB1
      @achimjeffersB1 Рік тому

      To assimilate into whiteness means to become anti-Blacks, particularly Foundational Black American hate and what does every group that arrivals to the shores do upon arriving: participate in national sentiment which is Anti-Blackness blame us for America’s racism against us!

    • @areswalker5647
      @areswalker5647 Рік тому +5

      It was a war between poor people at the bottom, Italians had issues with Irish people too, it was because at the time in USA they were all fighting for not being the one group at the very bottom: it's a social phenomenal that can be seen often, emarginalized groups closed on themselves fight for the few resources that are left for them all by the ones on top; and when one of them is able to grasp any bit of power they try to squash competition by becoming even more desperate, and so crueler, than those who imposed the hierarchy

  • @susandevinenapoli7649
    @susandevinenapoli7649 Рік тому +2

    Yes, this research has relaxed you a lot. Love your channel. Did they find you or did you reach out? Either way it's gutsy.

    • @nytn
      @nytn Рік тому +2

      they reached out! :)

  • @crissyd6279
    @crissyd6279 Рік тому +7

    This man is very specific when speaking about Italian, French, Jewish American, to refering to Black American history as "people of color." The disrespect continues even from black people. Nobody wants to be "black" except to leave the door slightly open for reparations. I do not encourage any ADOS person to refer to themselves or the ethnic group as POC. The term is only used when other ethnic groups want to use ADOS history and pretend like they were here and an implied were treated like ADOS in this country. Do away with the term. The host makes no sense discussing very specific history of ethinic and racial groups in this country and then using terms like "POC."

    • @kevinc3342
      @kevinc3342 Рік тому

      Yep - it's just native-born Black Americans and that's it!! For all other non-whites, they're "people of color!!"

  • @callunaraven5144
    @callunaraven5144 Рік тому +2

    It's so Amazing to see one of my utuber to see her journey and and recognition ❤️ she so received. You have encouraged me to look into my own family history. I came across a card for Jane Astains Womens Group during 1985. Thank you ❤

    • @nytn
      @nytn Рік тому +1

      this made my day!

  • @debrawilliams2781
    @debrawilliams2781 Рік тому +4

    The truth comes to the forefront with DNA TESTS

  • @JulieIelasi-lt7yp
    @JulieIelasi-lt7yp Рік тому +9

    Yes the Italian's from Sicily are black 99 percent of Sicilian Italian's are black im shocked when i wrnt to italy to visit over 30 years ago now but when i visited Sicily they are very,very dark sine i would csll black ! My Dad's from Calabria they are all 100 percent italian not that dark at all very light white its italy but go to Sicily its by it self an island cut off from italy, Sicilians are a mix bunch of people mostly Arabs, African mixed 100 percent!! They even call themselves Sicilian not italian they just live in "italy "! Period.

    • @atkinsjoe5754
      @atkinsjoe5754 2 місяці тому +3

      Not true I’m Sicilian and my dna shows more French Norman than north african

    • @atkinsjoe5754
      @atkinsjoe5754 2 місяці тому

      Not true I’m Sicilian and my dna shows more French Norman than North African

    • @imabout2eat40
      @imabout2eat40 Місяць тому

      You’re lying mulatto

    • @felicepatti8142
      @felicepatti8142 Місяць тому

      Si vede che non conosci la storia della Sicilia! Non sai dei Normanni? Molti siciliani sono biondi con gli occhi azzurri discretamenti dai Normanni

  • @chrisventura1881
    @chrisventura1881 Місяць тому

    Wow so cool. Glad you made the news Danielle. Been following her page for a while now. Salute.🇮🇹✌🏼🇺🇸

  • @HailieBriggs-b8g
    @HailieBriggs-b8g 6 днів тому

    Great Information. I loved the description of early Italian southern history. As a Italian American it was interesting to look into my ancestry.

  • @jamespresident6577
    @jamespresident6577 Рік тому +5

    Look into the Hispanic term you'll find Hispanic and Latino terms are not the actual foundation for Nationality and Culture.

  • @jollcheist1443
    @jollcheist1443 Рік тому +13

    No one has suffered more than the blacks to this day we are still going through turmoil. Sure others have also suffered but what is their condition today?

    • @lucianomezzetta4332
      @lucianomezzetta4332 Рік тому +5

      So what is your point? To diminish the despicable treatment Italians received? So what if the blacks suffered more according to you. ANY one suffering from racism is despicable no matter the color. But I guess your white guilt has limits when it comes to olive colored skin.

    • @mindriot91_96
      @mindriot91_96 Рік тому +2

      Lucianomezzetta4332 summed it up well. It's not simply a matter of who suffered more, it's the fact that others have suffered any amount of discrimination. Do a little critical thinking once in a while and stop simply regurgitating what you've read and heard.

    • @lisafiore7081
      @lisafiore7081 4 місяці тому

      WTF? How are Blacks still experiencing termoil? Is this the 1950s?

    • @luigimarra4077
      @luigimarra4077 Місяць тому +1

      Oh poor you, you suffered more than anybody else. I'd that what you want to hear ? Get over yourself.

    • @lisafiore7081
      @lisafiore7081 Місяць тому

      @@jollcheist1443 Believe it or not, the Blacks are doing well for themselves! It is all in YOUR head!

  • @ToddJames-vi3mc
    @ToddJames-vi3mc Рік тому +5

    People won't deny themselves for Christ but will deny themselves to be liked or for a material object!

  • @josmotherman591
    @josmotherman591 Рік тому +4

    Louisiana, especially New Orleans, is one of the most culturally diverse places in America, I think. Every race and nationality has been mixing there for a long time. That's what makes it so unique.

  • @pamelahomeyer748
    @pamelahomeyer748 Рік тому +6

    I am half Italian and in the summer I would get very dark and I would find out quickly what it was like to be a black person and try to get waited on in a store

    • @Gianluca-
      @Gianluca- 11 місяців тому

      You are half South Italian, not Italian. Italy is not only Sicily and South Italy, deal with it.

  • @donttreadhere
    @donttreadhere Рік тому +3

    Can't believe I missed this!

  • @bluesforthecool
    @bluesforthecool Рік тому +1

    You're very articulate Danielle. I love listening to you talk. You talk as if you pursued higher education. Have you been to college or university ?

  • @shiprahyahisrael6200
    @shiprahyahisrael6200 Рік тому +4

    Key word is immigrant. Good to not making any comparison.

  • @johnnyearp52
    @johnnyearp52 Рік тому +2

    She said the exact same thing.

  • @lisafiore7081
    @lisafiore7081 4 місяці тому +8

    Italians are NOT White, but Mediterranean!

    • @imabout2eat40
      @imabout2eat40 Місяць тому

      They’re white

    • @felicepatti8142
      @felicepatti8142 Місяць тому

      Ecco un altro genio! Secondo te i mediterranei sono neri? Hai perso un' occasione per stare zitto

    • @Casey2262
      @Casey2262 Місяць тому

      Mediterraneans are tanned white people from Southern Europe. They are not a race.

    • @Casey2262
      @Casey2262 Місяць тому

      Yes they are. Mediterraneans are not a "race" they are tanned white people from Southern Europe.

    • @reesedurazo8626
      @reesedurazo8626 Місяць тому +1

      @@Casey2262 I would agree considering I’ve met some that have fair skin but in the summer they get dark

  • @patrickdavenport6254
    @patrickdavenport6254 Рік тому +6

    I'm glad she told him that there was no comparison to the way blacks were treated in the south, because he was about to push that Fox narrative that Italians had it just as bad. Shoutout to her!

    • @Jaco85-mb2vs
      @Jaco85-mb2vs Рік тому +4

      Italians HAD IT BAD. The fact blacks allegedly had it worse doesn't mean you should ignore what Italians went through

  • @Lioness1499
    @Lioness1499 Рік тому +12

    Italian is not a race it is a national identity. The race of Italian is the same as Germans it is Cacusiods. Some please education yourselves. Race is different from nationality and ethnicity.

    • @BrownSugarBaby1992
      @BrownSugarBaby1992 Рік тому

      To be correct! Everything started black! I don’t care what you claim or your beliefs! It started black! That’s FACTS!

    • @hayabusa1329
      @hayabusa1329 Рік тому

      Italians look like half white half pakistani

  • @adpowell1414
    @adpowell1414 Рік тому +1

    The mixed white Creoles like Lola Perot should be respected and their European heritage celebrated. They should not be condemned as an exotic variety of "black." They were white. You can't "pass" for what you truly are.

    • @EGarza-mk2mk
      @EGarza-mk2mk 2 місяці тому

      Regardless of what you think they "should be" doesn't change how they were treated. Muh European heritage 😂

    • @adpowell1414
      @adpowell1414 2 місяці тому

      @@EGarza-mk2mk I suppose you also think that Jews are a separate race since the Third Reich treated them as one.

  • @sammyjacksonofhollywood1245
    @sammyjacksonofhollywood1245 Рік тому +4

    she's black Italian

  • @Leah-br6xu
    @Leah-br6xu Місяць тому +1

    Danielle is one of the best ❤

  • @jamespresident6577
    @jamespresident6577 Рік тому +2

    Great Video Fox 26 Houston

  • @jamespresident6577
    @jamespresident6577 Рік тому +4

    I Love your journey keep building ❤.

    • @nytn
      @nytn Рік тому +1

      always appreciate ya!

  • @markrichardson1657
    @markrichardson1657 8 місяців тому

    dope story, at least you're willing to share truth, kudos.

  • @karlpopper3246
    @karlpopper3246 5 місяців тому +1

    Italy is not a race, but a country, and a culture. You are not talking about "Italians" but of Americans of Italian Ancestry.
    Italians are not discriminated against - as far as we know - anywhere in the world.
    So the problem of these people is being American first of all.
    Now we can speak about the problem. Why are these Americans, like many other Americans of 50 other ancestries, discriminated against? Because America is a country built on discrimination and exploitation. Still today.

  • @culturalobserver8721
    @culturalobserver8721 6 місяців тому +2

    Ethnically, Danielle looks a lot like Meghan Markle!

  • @SweetE1403
    @SweetE1403 Рік тому +5

    Awesome interview Danielle

  • @mattsheezy5469
    @mattsheezy5469 Рік тому +4

    Danielle is beautiful 🥰

  • @warrengeti5493
    @warrengeti5493 Рік тому +2

    Punk J.E. Hoover family was almost lynch in Louisiana.

  • @lashurediscussion4970
    @lashurediscussion4970 5 місяців тому

    Every other race has been mistreated in America and many races were giving some form of compensation and they were able to thrive in America. African Americans have not received that same compensation and people are still fighting to not allow it to happen.

  • @robertos2198
    @robertos2198 Місяць тому

    Proud to be italian 🇮🇹

  • @user-hq8wm8giyujcg
    @user-hq8wm8giyujcg Рік тому +4

    thanks to indo euro from steppes who became Mycenaean, minoans and other Mediterranean civilizations who inspired them and greek dark age to give Caucasians civilization and renaissance just 500 years ago...

    • @jimakisspd
      @jimakisspd Рік тому

      Sigh, there is no such race as ''indoeuropeans from steppes''. Mycenaeans and Minoans were aboriginals like most Greeks.

    • @heisenbergs9415
      @heisenbergs9415 Місяць тому

      @@jimakisspd Yes there is. Europeans, Iranians and Indians show common steppe ancestry not found in other groups, which is associated with Indo Europeans.

  • @saundraking7168
    @saundraking7168 Рік тому +10

    Got that MOORISH blood!

  • @lisafiore7081
    @lisafiore7081 4 місяці тому +1

    Danielle, how were u able to trace your great grammies DNA after she died?

    • @kitty_s23456
      @kitty_s23456 Місяць тому

      Hi. I have followed Danielle's UA-cam page for quite some time. IIRC she didn't get to meet her g-gma (name was Lola) as Lola had died prior to Danielle's birth. Danielle was able to have a DNA test forher g-ma (child of Lola). She had African percentage in her DNA. Other cousins of her g-ma (from Louisiana) also had DNA tests and they all had African percentage too. Danielle & her mom also had African percentage/ ancestry, coming from Lola.
      There was also oral history. Danielle was able to talk with a great aunt or cousin(?) who knew Lola or knew about her - that Lola went North with her Irish husband and passed as white in the north.
      TLDR: to trace her genealogy, it was DNA tests, oral history & research of documents in archives.

  • @JL-fx2cd
    @JL-fx2cd 8 місяців тому

    Great story.

  • @maryannvelazquez7882
    @maryannvelazquez7882 Місяць тому

    If people ask you your race telling you you're biracial and also if your part Hispanic you also part Native American Tano tribe

  • @jamespresident6577
    @jamespresident6577 Рік тому +5

    Sounds like Beyonce's maternal family genealogy.

  • @deewilson3239
    @deewilson3239 Рік тому +2

    Oh my God that is such a shock...passed smh

  • @antoniogutierrezjr7471
    @antoniogutierrezjr7471 4 місяці тому +1

    Sicilian. Where not seen as white as the. Irish and the Anglos

  • @rolandeanglade6321
    @rolandeanglade6321 Рік тому +2

    Passe pou Blanc.

  • @k.anderson5039
    @k.anderson5039 10 місяців тому +1

    The irony- you have ever known Italian Americans who were raised in NYC/NJ (especially those over 50 then you know how racial they can be. If you ever watched the Sopranos the do a good job of showing the personalities of many Italians Americans raised in that area (non mob stuff). I have a lot of extended family there & saw it with my own eyes over decades while on vacation & living with them. Part of their dislike goes back to the 1960s riots Newark & their opinion that black people ruined Newark & surrounding towns.
    Over the years they have met & come to know some of my black & Puerto Rican friends & had been welcoming & like them. I remember about 15 years ago my brother couldn’t help himself. They has thrown a bday party for me the night before & most of my who were invited were black or Latino. Some of them they had met before & others this was the first time. We had a good night & they enjoyed talking to my friends. The next morning one of them made a racist comment to which my brother asked if you are saying this stuff why do like all the black people who were here just last night? The response- because they are assimilated & different then most black people😂🤢
    It’s funny as it never occurred to them that maybe most black people are just regular people & their perception are characters they made up over the years based on limited interaction

  • @Grouch1111
    @Grouch1111 Місяць тому

    Listen comparing this disgust is just as disgusting as you

  • @cmadden64
    @cmadden64 Рік тому +2

    😇🤌👣🤌👣🤌😇

  • @kathiaserrano1999
    @kathiaserrano1999 Рік тому +3

    Italian Mafia Evil 😈

  • @blossom1643
    @blossom1643 7 місяців тому

    Oh Lord HERE we go again.🙄

  • @EmilyJohnson558
    @EmilyJohnson558 7 місяців тому

    😢

  • @ladygeka5235
    @ladygeka5235 7 місяців тому

    I think in that era the USA needed to empower the White race and that’s why Italians in the USA are called white, meanwhile, they’re not. Of course, this is not a problem. They did the same with the Spanish people. Spanish are a mixed group of ethnic people. But we identify with each other as black, white, Asian, indigenous, and Jewish. Personally, my family is a mix of all the above groups and many more, we are a very large generation. In my birth certificate and all my siblings my parents are identified as white and we are all white too. And yes we are white Spanish. Today we all marry many ethnic groups. And today we are a loving caring UN of our own.

  • @jenniegem5338
    @jenniegem5338 Місяць тому

    Nobody knows because it doesn't fit the narrative

  • @frankbattle3809
    @frankbattle3809 Рік тому +6

    This dude hosting is Hella irritating he's actually promoting a narrative that Blacks and Italians were on equal "slaying fields"! No that wasn't a typo I said "slaying fields".🎙️

    • @dcsnare315x
      @dcsnare315x Рік тому

      Learn your history. Just imagine being oppressed and not getting credit for it. Fucking sucks

  • @luigimarra4077
    @luigimarra4077 Місяць тому

    Due to the way we were treated in canada, most italians so not want to distancw themselves at all, we are italian first, period, even those born in canada, italian first its a badge of honor, its a slap in the face to the anglosaxon canadians.