Posted on 06/11/2020 8:19:19 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative
A light rain fell on New Orleans on October 15, 1890, as Police Chief David Hennessy left the central police station with his colleague and friend Capt. William O’Connor just after 11 p.m. The young chief turned toward Basin Street, heading for the home he shared with his widowed mother. O’Connor went in the opposite direction, up Girod Street. Hennessy rarely walked home alone; for the past three years, he had done so in the company of bodyguards. That night he was alone.
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A bit of perspective in a time of National Lunacy.
It will not be thought of as perspective. It will be used as ammunition. They are saying they have been treated awful for centuries and this story will just be another example.
Being Italian, I am wondering what Statues in New Orleans I can tear down to bring attention to this mass Slaughter of my Countrymen.
Perhaps I should start an Italian Lives Matter movement. Fist thing to be done is Sue Dominoes and Pizza Hut for profiting off of Cultural Appropriation.
This was written in 2016. But there is an element that is applicable today. Everyone who wants to “defund” should read about vigilante justice, lynchings and mob rule. The police and The justice system protect suspects and criminals.
A bunch of Sicilians were lynched way back right?
We could definitely sue for cultural appropriation.
And the destroying of the statues is obviously a hate crime towards Italians.
That would be enough for a black or brown group. It isn’t for us and of course it shouldn’t be. But it would be for another color
I had a good friend from New Orleans.
His name actually was Corleone. He was a great baseball player. All the girls were crazy over him. A really nice guy and a Southern Baptist.
He had one oddity. He would get really close to you when he talked. You wanted to take a step back but didn’t so as not to embarrass him.
I remember hearing stories from my Grandfather in NY about how Italians were treated way back when.
Every group had their day, the Chinese, the Irish and the Blacks. Apparently only one Group hasn’t moved on from it...
There’s probably been more black people murdered in these riots than were lynched in 1890.
Didn’t read the article?
They need to stop living in the past.
Yes, I read it. The ones lynched were Italians, I just said more blacks were killed in the riots than were lynched.
Don't you love your white privilege? What a bunch of BS. and yes that was a mass murder.
I stopped reading the article as the Trump bashing lies started, revealing that it was not so much history as hit piece. Bah.
Yet it moves to a comparison between recent Republican and Democrat attitudes toward Muslim immigration, as if the former have any history of small or large scale lynching's. No, that lamentable custom was practiced exclusively by followers of the party of Jefferson, Jackson, Wilson, and the mentioned Jefferson Davis. If Republicans had been inclined to lynch anyone, Old Jeff would have been first at the steps of the gallows.
Also, while there was a longtime criminal element within the Sicilian community it largely fed on, terrified (I've actually heard an older Italian say "Shhhh! Black-a Hand!" when the Mafia was mentioned) and oppressed it's own neighbors and neighborhoods. They didn't drive cars onto crowded sidewalks, fly loaded passenger jets into buildings, or cheer and throw candy out to celebrate mass atrocities. Yet, except for the occasional moron misidentifying a turban wearing Sikh as a Muslim, no one's been harmed much less lynched. Typical Leftist projection.
I was originally going to link to the Wikipedia Page but we can’t do that on FR. Thanks for the info.
There is a GREAT HBO movie about this mass lynching of Italians in New Orleans. One of the more interesting films Ive seen in 10 years, it’s based on a very accurately researched book on the subject.
The film is called Vendetta.
Here is the free link:
Starring Christopher Walken. Bruce Davison, and other actors I’ve never heard of.
Not to be confused with other movies with Vendetta in the title. Seriously, watch this movie, y’all.
Btw, the lamppost where some of the Italians were hanged still stand on Canal Street in New Orleans, and the homes and graves can be found as well.
Yup, no reason to believe anything else will be written without a SJW slant.
Not by a long shot. There was one lynching in Texas during the Civil War where 41 Unionists were strung up. There were others as well.
Were any of them Lynched because they were Italian?
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