[Mo1]

I remember the stories my mother told when she was a kid and how the Italians were treated and it wasn't nice

[newnhdad]

I remember the stories my mother told when she was a kid and how the Italians were treated and it wasn't nice


Heck, I'm 39 and I used to get called a stinking ginny, jumped, and beat up until 4th grade when my dad (NYC Cop) came by in uniform for parents day. We had these neighbors wouldn't give us candy during halloween because all eye-talians are dirty. They'd call the cops on us at night because they thought we would break into their house.

Good thing my dad was a 220lb musclebound cop.

[Mannaggia l'America]

I remember the stories my mother told when she was a kid and how the Italians were treated and it wasn't nice

During WWII, my Italian grandparents regularly had their house searched (I wonder if it was without a warrant!). This was while their son, my uncle, was on a ship in the South Pacific with the navy...

When I was a kid, I used to collect coins. My grandmother told me she used to have a few gold coins, but thanks to FDR, they were "confiscated" during one of the searches.