The Italian lynchings of 1891 is what gave us "Columbus day".

History ^ | 10/25/2017 | History

[God luvs America]

Exactly!!! Yet facts are not an important part of the LW narrative

[mikelets456]

As an Italian, I’m upset at myself for not know this horrible history.

[Wuli]

Maybe the article is B.S. in terms of why we have Columbus Day.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbus_Day

[Williams]

I read that Teddy Roosevelt called the lynchings “rather a good thing”.

[Williams]

Wrong. From the Wikipedia:

For the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s voyage in 1892, following a lynching in New Orleans, where a mob had murdered 11 Italian immigrants, President Benjamin Harrison declared Columbus Day as a one-time national celebration.[10][11] The proclamation was part of a wider effort after the lynching incident to placate Italian Americans and ease diplomatic tensions with Italy.[10]

During the anniversary in 1892, teachers, preachers, poets, and politicians used rituals to teach ideals of patriotism. These rituals took themes such as citizenship boundaries, the importance of loyalty to the nation, and the celebration of social progress, included among them was the Pledge of Allegiance by Francis Bellamy.[12][13][14][15]

[Fiji Hill]

I read that article all the way through. It says nothing about Columbus Day.

[x]

In a private letter to his sister.

[lowbridge]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1891_New_Orleans_lynchings

[lapsus calami]

 

 

There were industries that used to scour Europe for labor to bring in over here. The lumber business was one of them. They would bring in folk like Bulgarians, Italians to work in timber camps, doing hard physical labor to get timber to the sawmills. A lot of Italians were in Louisiana for that sort of work. And the locals, whether black or white, weren't exactly friendly towards what they perceived as an intrusion on their labor markets. Dig back through Louisiana newspapers in the early 20th century and you will find various accounts of fighting, organized robberies and outright mob attacks on Italian citizens, some serious enough to get the Italian consulate publicly upset. A bit of lost history you may find interesting.

 

 

[BenLurkin]

“They were Italian Americans.”

Well there’s the problem. They should have been just Americans.

[God luvs America]

I’ve known about this for a while. Yeh- its horrible but that’s what happened back then. Should we hold a grudge forever as the lefties do??

[House Atreides]

“ I read that article all the way through. It says nothing about Columbus Day.”
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Party pooper. ;-)

[marktwain]

In a private letter to his sister.

As I recall, the remarks were public.

This article has at least one fact wrong, so it is difficult to know how accurate it is.

Roosevelt was not elected President in 1894. He became president when McKinley was assassinated in 1901, and was elected again in 1904.

[lapsus calami]

 

 

Meriden Daily Journal, Meriden, Connecticut - December 1907-

 

 

 

 

[griswold3]

Go to NOLA and demand reparations! Do it! All the cool kids are!

[Secret Agent Man]

This is a history article. Nothing is said about grudges or reparations.

[x]

See this.

[SC DOC]

[Made In The USA]

Same here. From this thread I’ve learned much today.