Self-induced victimization as a result of White Guilt
by Dario G.
In this bizarre new country where Whites are derided on a daily basis, where any kind of association with a sort of European or White identity is immediately condemned as racist, archaic, or even shameful, it is unsurprising that some groups of White America are beginning to reassess themselves as not being part of the great White American majority, but instead as part of the ever-growing cult of minority “victims.”
As painful as it is for me to admit, members of my own ethnic group, the Italians, in some cases have seemed to openly embrace the victim cult. Every now and then you hear a couple of people talk about how Italians “were never considered White,” or how Italians have been (allegedly) relentlessly persecuted since their great migration to the Americas, by both “WASPs” and the US government (like with Sacco and Vanzetti). One can even hear nowadays that Italians are not even ethnically White because of some alleged African or Arabic ancestry due to the Islamic conquest of Sicily. It makes me cringe to hear such revisionism being touted by Italians who apparently see themselves as kind of “other,” in a sort of peculiar limbo between the “evil White man” and and “other minorities.” Unfortunately for the victims’ cult, history soundly refutes them.
While the great masses of Italian immigrants came to the United States in the 1800s, few forget about the Italians who lived in colonial and newly-independent America. Ranging from craftsmen to military officers to political philosophers, Italians were visible in American life. Thomas Jefferson himself had a close friendship with with Filippo Mazzei of Florence, who, according to some, in his philosophical exchanges with our founding Father, might have coined the phrase that “all men are created equal.” Indeed, two Americans of Italian descent signed the Declaration of Independence – William Paca from Maryland, and Caesar Rodney from Delaware. Apparently the Founders didn’t see them as non-Whites. Nor did they see the 1500 men (among whom some officers), who fought in the three Italian regiments in the Revolution against Great Britain. Other Italians, like Antonio Capellano, Luigi Perisco, and Costantino Brumidi were great artists and sculptors who helped build Washington DC in a neo-classical style. Apparently, they, too, were White enough.
Generally, when people refer to historical discrimination against Italians and Italian-Americans, they are usually referring to a specific time in United States history; when millions of Italians immigrated to these shores who were poor, uneducated, and different. But this is misleading. Italian immigrants weren’t necessarily frowned upon as Italians per se, but because of their low economic position. No country is going to be happy to accommodate millions of uneducated, impoverished citizens. But as has been already mentioned, Italians have coexisted peacefully with other White Americans from this country’s inception. Indeed, there were already a relevant amount of governors, mayors, and other elected officials of Italian descent by the time this new immigration wave had arrived (like Onorio Razzolini, Joseph “Phinizy” Finizzi, and Francis Spinola, among others). Therefore to make the assertion that White Americans somehow had it in for Italians, is factually incorrect.
Did discrimination exist against Italian immigrants? Yes, but it is more limited than believed, and even the most notorious examples can usually be exonerated from being “anti-Italianism”. The infamous Sacco and Vanzetti case is a good example. Often their execution is considered the pinnacle of anti-Italianism. However, many forget these two individuals were radical anarchists. No, we’re not talking about the hippies sitting in communes. These were dangerous radicals who subscribed to an ideology which promoted bombings, assassinations, and other violent terrorist attacks to help overthrow the government. The US government was rightfully suspicious of their intentions. Nor is their innocence today a foregone conclusion. Historians continue to dispute whether they were truly innocent. At the very least, Sacco was almost certainly guilty, while Vanzetti was probably an accessory.
The biggest example of anti-Italianism aside the Sacco and Vanzetti trial is often judged to be the New Orléans lynching. But even here, the outrage was provoked by a sentence in a trial in which, against the supposed anti-Italian narrative, the Italians were acquitted. That naturally doesn’t justify the attack, which was cruel and violent, but it is important to have context. This was probably the most outrageous and low incident Italians had faced.
Also, contrary to common belief, the US government did not designate Italians as non-Whites. The US government has always classified Italians as White, as with other non-Northern Europeans. However, Italians were classified as “White – Ethnic.” Yet this was not to judge Italians as non-White, but simply to differentiate them from the Anglo-Protestant historical American majority. For the government to have categorized Italians as anything but White would have been ludicrous. What would Christopher Columbus have been considered then? Given that he has been honored yearly since at least 1796 should give pause to some of the more rabid Italian White “secessionists.”
The final pervasive myth on Italians that has been growing as part of the victims’ cult some Italian-Americans have fallen into is in regard to Italian genetic heritage. Who are the Italians? Are we a European people? Or we are a “mosaic” of races due to past invasion? In particular, are Italians partially Arab? Should Sicilians classify themselves as “others” and reject the racial identification as White because of Muslim occupation? There are two problems with the “Arab” myth – history and genetic reality.
First, contrary to common belief, the Arabs were never able to pacify the island. It took seventy-five years (yes, 75) for the Saracens to conquer the entire island of Sicily. Given that it took the Muslims only five years to conquer Spain, who, according to genetic testing, are as White as anyone, it’d be pretty ridiculous to assume that Southern Italians, and Sicilians in particular, could be “Arab.” Additionally, when Robert Giuscard reconquered Sicily for the West in 1072, he immediately initiated a mass deportation of Arabs that lived on the island. Second, genetic studies confirm that Italians, and Southern Italians in particular, have almost no North African admixtures. Also, Italians by and large can be proud of their fact that our genetics have changed little over the millennia. We have remained a genetically consistent people since before the rise of Roman civilization.
It is a sad development to see some Italians in America attempting to segregate themselves from the rest of White America as some kind of separate, identifiable racial group. This is no doubt a result of the endless anti-White indoctrination being propagated to foster a sense of White guilt. It should also be noted how cleverly our enemies have tried to divide us against each other by fostering myths on the “evolution of Whiteness” on how “White” was never a clear-cut defined group, and thus is illegitimate. There is no ambiguity, history speaks clear of what Italians are: Europeans from Alps to Toe to Islands, as much so as the Swedes and the English. And while Italian-Americans should be proud of the achievements of Italians, we must never forget that our kin are our European brothers and sisters, and that we in this country are a proud part of America’s great, historical, White majority.
Viva l’Italia, Viva l’America, e Viva la nostra Civiltà Occidentale!
(Long Live Italy, long live America, and long live our Western civilization!)