When Will New Orleans Apologize for the Italian Lynchings?

American Thinker.com ^ | August 22, 2017 | Micheal Bertolone

[Kaslin]

The popular trend of taking down Confederate statues and the resulting controversy and violence was put on steroids by New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu. And now this tactic has predictably attracted mentally-disturbed white supremacists, Neo-Nazis, Antifa anarchists, and outright communists.

However, Mayor Landrieu's virtue signaling only goes so far. For example, when will the mayor issue a formal apology to Italian Americans, who were the victims of one of the largest lynchings in U.S. history in 1891? Of course he won't, because that runs counter to his leftist narrative. Italians are now grouped in with "white oppressors," but in the late 1800s and early 1900s, they weren't considered "white" and certainly did not have so-called "white privilege."

Police chief David Hennessy had been investigating corruption on the New Orleans waterfront, at that time run by the rival Provenzano and Matranga families. On the evening of October 15, 1890, shortly before a trial in which Hennessy was to testify, he was struck down by gunmen while walking home. When asked who had shot him, Hennessy whispered, “The dagoes.” He died of complications the next day. (Historians today believe that Hennessy had unwittingly been caught amid rivalry between the two clans, both of which hoped to seize complete control of the lucrative port business.)

Hennessy had been a popular chief of police, and the population of New Orleans reacted to his death with shock and dismay. Local papers, led by the Times-Democrat and the Daily Picayune, ran a series of articles marked by lurid tales of the “Black Hand” and the “Mafia” – at that time a term unknown to most Americans.

[equaviator]

The world should know by now that the Italian people are not all Mussolini-type fascists or Mafia-related.

[livius]

It’s like San Francisco, where vigilantes attacked and killed French and Irish.

[PAR35]

Back when folks knew how to deal with criminals who weren’t being dealt with by corrupt politicians.

A few lynchings would make most major cities better places to live.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Dittos.

[Fiddlstix]

New Orleans was the first home of the American Mafia. Crime family roots in that community extend back as far as - perhaps further than - the U.S. Civil War. For much of its history, the New Orleans Mafia isolated itself from underworld organizations in the rest of the country. This must be partly due to historic friction between Palermo Mafia authority and the rebellious Monreale-based Stuppagghieri group that took hold in the Crescent City. The New Orleans Mafia colonized other areas of the U.S., including the western coast of Florida, Texas, California and eastern Missouri. Descendants of a New Orleans Mafioso managed for a time to dominate the underworld of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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Copied from: http://mafiahistory.us/maf-b-no.html

Copyright © Thomas Hunt

[yarddog]

I just love that “historians now believe” crap.

It was the Black Hand and everyone knew it. The Federal Government paid the mafia a million dollars reparations and they used that money to get their real start in America.

[Kaslin]

That is quite interesting. Thanks for posting.

[Fiddlstix]

Click the Pic

[dainbramaged]

This web site consists of photographs and postcards of lynchings in our country. http://withoutsanctuary.org/

[a fool in paradise]

Never.

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[Verbosus]

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