My husband is Sicilian and when I mentioned you covering this topic, he said his grandma was attacked in the streets when she was 12. Thank you Bailey!!
As an Aboriginal Australian woman, I would personally love to see you do a video on the dark history and colonisation of my country. Just feel like there’s so much white australia and other countries don’t know about what happened here
This deserves every bit of attention. I was involved with an activist group when I learned about the Aborigines, and I must say it was an experience. I had no idea that the colonialism was still so present today. Your people deserve a platform, and to be spoken about/for by someone who can really make a difference
Absolutely!! its shocking that the majority of the world have no idea what happened and how it still effects the aboriginal population to this day. im from nz so ive learnt a fair bit about it n my aunty and two of my cousins are aboriginal so your history is close to me and incredibly important! would love to see bailey cover this!
The stolen generation or forced adoption or even Auntie Julie from Aradale Lunatic Asylum (she just can’t use Wikipedia at all for Aradale because the don’t even get the year it opened correct 🙄😬)
35:49 This is the part that makes my stomach turn the most... the thought of that poor man trying to climb away and the vigilantes climbing after him and shooting him after he was already dead is so sickening. People who continue an assault on someone after they're already dead are the worst sickos.
I’m s second generation Italian American and unfortunately my great grandfather was killed in New Orleans in that time period. I’m really glad that you covered this story as I feel like it’s really important more people know about this dark history.
I hope Bailey sees and understands how many people, from all over the world, appreciate her bringing so much light and recognition to each of the culture, ethnic, and racial disparities people have and currently suffer from, that seem to get lost throughout history. What you’re doing Bailey is incredible and I hope you realize you’ve influenced and changed the world for the better by keeping victims and their stories alive with your channel and content ❤️
@@cherry9669 nope not at all... I don't see anyone with disparities because I don't call someone weak... they have to call themselves weak... If someone is in dispair then they have to show me why they have no hope... and no one that exists today has no hope...
As a proud Italian & Sicilian, I'd love to hear a story covering the history of Poveglia Island during the height of the Black Plague. It's really dark.
Seriously the ground is mostly the ashes of burned bodies. Not even dirt. I heard they shut it down to the public cause of how haunted it is and people were getting "possessed" while on the island
I'm glad somebody is speaking about this!! My great-grandpa's family was treated HORRIBLY when they immigrated to the US from Sicily, they had to change their entire identities and it still wasn't enough. It's truly disturbing how many races/ethnicities have been abused in the US 😔
The U.S. tried to commit genocide on the Indigenous people who were living on the North American continent. Why would they be any nicer to immigrants? Millions died so they could do a replacement society with Europeans and immigrants from other countries in hopes that Native Americans would disappear and they could pretend they were settling the wilderness and doing God's work of Manifest Destiny that started with the Pilgrims 🙄
@@gnostic268 100%. I have basically zero connection to both my Italian and Iranian ancestors' cultures bc they had to erase them and fully assimilate in order to feel safe.. yet ppl wanna act like immigrants are coming here to force their cultures and beliefs on ppl 🙄
I absolutely loved your comment about holding the media accountable. Having a degree in Journalism, I was taught to present impartial facts in articles, to allow the public to draw their own conclusions. Clearly, that has gone by the wayside. I literally quit a job because the editor told me to slant my story to suit their political agenda. I'm shocked and disheartened that today's so-called journalists hide behind the 1st amendment while cleverly using words to sway the court of public opinion. In our digital age, they have a responsibility to be better!
I studied Business Economics, Art History, Advertising & Marketing. I mean the renaissance was enough to show me how the whole system of society works and sadly still seems to work. The whole point of everything seems to be about manipulation of peoples emotional states (colour theory is literally attaching sentiment to people's unconcious or conscious emotional attachment to colour and imagery associated with colour) to basically get them to buy whatever you're selling or vote for you (buy *your* brand) Money money money. The colour of slavery is green. Accountability would be a great start.
I'm third generation Italian-American, and this was only a footnote in our history books. Thank you for sharing this story Bailey! I honestly think only those of Italian descent even know about it.
Yes. I’m a 3rd generation Sicilian American too. My great grandfather was off the boat on Ellis island. My grandfather was still being called a white n**ger trying to join a baseball team in 1941 and they refused to let him join the team for being Sicilian. There are still Italian slurs, and sadly even I have been called them before when being proud of my families roots.
IT is weird indeed. Everywhere I comment, people tell me how much they love me and my content. Sometimes IT is annoying. But right now, IT would be okay. So say something nice about my content, dear bro
I'm a Sicilian born and raised in Sicily. You know, till this day us Sicilian are often discriminated even from other Italians as well and it's always been so weird to me seeing a lot of foreigners (especially Americans) romanticize one of the things that ruined my people and my island: mafia. At the end of the day it's always been the cause of innocent Sicilians' discrimination all over the world, and yet today the romanticized concept of mafia is often seen in medias, movies, books... Anyway, thank you Bailey for telling this story, unfortunately it brought much more pain to the future generations but I'm sure that things are slowly changing. P.S.: I'd like to point out the fact that most of us Italians/Sicilians are white, so I'm not really sure there are actual "racial" slurs against us?? Or at least I wouldn't use this adjective to describe the insults and other forms of discrimination we may face outside of Sicily, it wouldn't be fair to all the pocs who are victims of actual racism.
I agree with your statement but if I could share my thoughts on racism and the colour of one's skins just because you are white this shouldn't be little the abuse your ancestry experienced it's still very much valid! Racism isn't just skin colour, racial minority I.e the sicilia people in American at this time were a racial minority even as white people they faced racial prejudice due to the inherited differences as immigrants from a different country. The definition of racism isn't the most thought out from what I've read but as a white British person I'm lucky to never have experienced racism, but many European friends of mine who are white of skin have experienced racial abuse within my company I think because they share the same skin colour people don't see it for the racial abuse it is and even consider it 'banter'
I wouldn’t really call Italians white we are Latin I am a pure bred Italian and I get mistaken for South American or even half cast so yeah skin colour is not an issue if you’re not Anglo Saxon eg: German English etc you face immense racism especially here in Australia 🇦🇺 I still get told to go back to your own country lol 😂 I was born here but lived in Italy 🇮🇹 for 15 years both parents are Italian born and when they migrated from Italy to Australia 🇦🇺 they were kept in like concentration camps believe it or not my Nonno would tell me how they lived it was atrocious…..
@@Samanthajustinapoliti italy is not in latin america, so we are not latin at all lol. italy is in europe and so we're european, aka white. also, latin people can be white as well.
As a black poc, it really hurts my heart to see comments expressing a familiar sadness of not knowing how rough your ancestors had lived for you to get here. Learning about Emmitt Till and the Tulsa Massacre was really hard for me, because I couldn’t understand how these awful things happened, and nobody talked about them ever. Just want you to know that you are seen and understood 💜 Update: wow the responses. I love the solidarity. I agree with most of you. Let’s unearth all this ugliness so we can all heal. Stay safe and happy everyone 💜💜
On another note I never see people talk my ancestors who were slaves. My family doesn’t talk about it much. My family in Ireland are fine now but they said they’d explain the slavery and royalty from our family line if I was ever able to visit. Blows my mind.
@SkyCop Wife same here! My mom’s parents (irish dad and Scottish mom actually) were super white and they worked in their family’s cotton fields growing up. My pa has had lots of spots removed of skin cancer from long hours out in the fields.
I grew up in and around Tulsa and they never EVER taught or spoke about it. I didn’t learn about it til I was 20 years old and I can’t believe none of us were told about things like that in our own city. We need to do better
As a Sicilian American- I learned about this from my family at a young age and it was surprisingly taught in my freshman year of HS. It has always and will always sicken me. That’s also why I cannot for the life of me understand how my fellow Italian- Americans can treat black people and other people of color like they’re less than. Racism has no place with me and I have and will always call it out. I’ll never be part of the problem; only part of the solution. Thank you for covering this, Bailey. Maybe other Italian- Americans will stop and think about their actions and words.
My grandparents are Sicilian and I grew up in a loving family in California but when I moved to the Midwest I didn't realize how awful people could really be. My family was so close and loving and accepting that I never knew people were excluded for their skin color!
I’m planning on going to school for crime analytics after realizing I’m obsessed with your content and this is something I can actually pursue! Thank you Bailey ❤️
@@Heyhunniesbuffytimmons8513 I need to take a 2 year course, to get a diploma, before I can take Crime Analytics (you need a diploma to go into that course, weird I know) so it’ll take a couple years to actually get there, but I’m very very excited.
"America's like one big science project, and the rest of the world is kinda like watching us. Have you ever noticed that or thought about that?" - Baliey Sarian This is SERIOUSLY the most insightful thing I have ever heard an American utter.
It's always been referred to as an experiment in democracy, all the way back to the founders. This points out why it's wrong to just ignore all the history books. Just because one paragraph is inaccurate doesn't mean the whole chapter is - despite what the greedy fear-mongering media wants you to believe today.
Oh yes that's how early American history was taught to me! Animal Farm at an early age can really mess with a kids head when you're 8 and still believed there was magic in the world
Thank you for covering this story, as a second generation Sicilian American it’s important to remember the people and the events that have long been forgotten. My grandparents wanted us to be “Americanized” so we wouldn’t have the same struggles they faced when they came here and I feel like a lot of my own culture was lost because of fear. It’s stories like this that remind me how blessed I am to live in a time where I can be proud to be Sicilian and not persecuted for it.
My grandparents were the same way. They never spoke Italian in the home because they came here and they were Americans. They said the reason they did it was because one of my aunts was hard of hearing and they didn’t want to confuse her between home and school (switching languages), but I think it was because they wanted to assimilate. It always made me sad, because I wish we had grown up with the language, I have always been very proud of my Italian heritage.
I have an Italian cousin that married into my African American family. My mom made sure I knew about the history that we weren’t taught in school. She told me about the mass lynchings of Sicilians but she never gave me much detail. Then my cousin’s sister mentioned it on Facebook earlier this year. The story was so shocking to me that I actually thought of doing a documentary about it. Someone should! Thank you Bailey for doing this story because it is so important. When you said the part about giving Italians Columbus Day, some people feel the same about Juneteenth. A holiday does nothing to erase the atrocities committed toward human beings just because of their race.
Finally!! Someone covering Italian history. I feel like our ancestors get very overlooked by the popularity that is like; Jersey Shore and the Gotti brothers and like mobster lifestyle and that’s just not the case.
Ahhh!! I absolutely agree. I feel like our culture gets overlooked all of the time. I get many many of insults based off of our ancestors and history and hear wayyyyy too many sopranos jokes (I don’t totally mind them hahaha) but it is so great to finally be recognized in a different light for once
i was listening to this ep with my partner when it dropped yesterday! he comes from an extremely italian-american household and ironically, he was never allowed to see anything like the sopranos growing up (g*tti killed his grandfather 💀), but we just started watching it together over the holiday and he loves it dhhdfjdg
My family “ Schiro” was one of these immigrants. We came over from Sicily to New Orleans in the 1800s. We ended up owning a horse carriage business. We are from Arminian decent that escaped from the Ottomans to Sicily. There is so much of our history in New Orleans. My great grandma was born there in 1888 and died in 1980 something. It’s crazy to wonder how this effected my family.
Bailey just going ahead and finishing the last 10 minutes of the story just laying down on the couch surrounded by all things fluffy is SUCH a mood. Thank you for informing us Queen B.
Sad how there’s still a lot of stereotyping with Italian immigrants today. My Nono has been in Australia for 50/60 years, he’s a big marshmallow, his greeting for his grandkids was to squeeze our cheeks while saying “che beeellllaaa”. I found out recently he came to Australia by accident, he got on the boat thinking it was going to AUSTRIA 😂😂 the man is iconic
Aww thats such a crazy story! He meants to go to Austria but went to Australia? Did he just well it seems nice guess ill say and just lived there and settled down? @aleishataylor
Hello from Italy! So as I read from your comment we are still discriminated in the US? One day I will come to visit your country. It's one place (although huge) on my list of the countries I have not covered so far
@@mestesso9845 id say different areas of the country are better for Italians. I’m from Connecticut and Italians are all over CT, Massachusetts, and New York and not much discrimination exists for Italians. I’m currently living in Mississippi and previously lived in Texas and it’s a way different story down in the south. Also the Italian food is awful down here. My family is from Lucca and some stayed there while my grand parents moved to Boston! Hope I get to visit Italy one day!
I’m a second generation Italian-American on both sides and one of my grandpas was from Sicily so I’m so happy that someone finally covered this case! I didn’t even know about it until about a year or two ago. People forget the horrible things that happened to Italian immigrants back in the day (and some things even still today). It’s crazy how so many different groups have been treated horribly in this country and we don’t even learn about half of them.
@SkyCop Wife As this video focuses on Italians, that is why my comment also focuses on Italians. Like I said, almost all immigrant groups faced many atrocities when coming to this country and our history books do not teach us half of them (and specifically this story that this video is focused on). This video is allowing people, like me, of Italian decent to come together and speak about things that have happened to our particular group. No one is taking away from the terrible things that happened to other groups. No one is arguing that one group had it worse than another. Please don’t come on here and try to invalidate things that happened to Italians because the Irish also faced atrocities when coming to this country. Almost all groups had it bad and all of the stories deserve to be told.
Thank you for covering this important piece of history. My grandfather was horribly discriminated growing up. When him and my grandmother (Sicilian, Italian and Irish) dated, her father (who was pure Irish) used to call my grandfather racial slurs bc he looked black. When my grandmother got pregnant when she was 18, her father cut contact with her and didn’t speak to her or my grandfather for a few years. We still get heat for being sicilian to this day, but I am proud of my roots and proud of my family for holding their ground against all the hate.
There's a reason for that... Italians are considered white... and in school whites can Never, and I mean Never seem as a victim group in schools... trying to argue it when you're an adult is really hard because no one else knows about it and they will continually deny that it ever happened
@V P that's my point, it apparently is completely okay to discriminate against someone's color as long as the color is white... not caring about anything else other than color is the issues Italians, and any other Europeans have today... it makes it completely obvious how hypocritical alot of people are... my sister inlaw (brothers wife) is Hungarian... and if you saw her... she's mayonnaise white... she gets treated the same way as any other white person... the funny part... she had to go through the same immigration, and discrimination any of the people from South of the boarder do in North America... and because of her skin tone people say that her ancestors owned black slaves... It's sad how ignorant people truly are
As an italian girl and specifically sicilian, you have no idea how much a video covering this particular topic means to me, especially since it's you who made it (I've never commented until now but I'm a big fan of your videos 💖). My grandma told me plenty about her father returning to sicily for fear of being targeted by these people (decades after) and it really broke my heart to hear it. I'm sorry in advance if my english isn't perfect and thank you again for talking about this, much love from Messina 😘
My grandfather told me this was why many of our relatives went back up to Chicago to live after seeing the way most Italians were being treated in New Orleans.
@@federicamelito8744 Yes, sadly. This was in the late 1800s - early 1900s. I’d say through 1940 at least. When immigration was at its highest New Orleans was the place to be. Jobs, new lives, etc. that’s what my grandfather said everyone was looking for. Sadly, some of the New Orleans natives weren’t open to immigrants and treated Italians and Irish very poorly. We learn “Louisiana History” here, but they definitely don’t tell all of these horror stories.
It boggles my brain that this Irish-descendant man was so hateful to Italian immigrants when the Irish immigrants were ostracized just as badly during the 1840s (probably his father experience this). You think he would be understanding. I never heard of this story at all, thanks for sharing.
He was mixing with Italians to get his $. So it was a profit reason for tolerating newcomers until it became a conflict with different groups of the same immigrants that he was in the middle of. Typical response of narrow minds is to vilify anyone who gets in their way with their cultural or genetic differences brought to the front as the reason to get others to see "other" and thus create hate for a whole group of people(a form of exclusion and justification for outrageous behaviors towards that group).
all of my grandparents immigrated from italy and sicily during the 1930s and 40s and the stories ive heard about their time when they first got to the states is heartbreaking. they refused to talk about it when i was younger but as i got older, they started to talk about it more. it’s a big reason both of my parents were never taught how to speak sicilian or italian while they were growing up.
My grandfather and his family were Sicilian & they faced this kind of racism in the late 1800s as immigrants to America. Thank you Bailey for sharing this history which we were never taught in school!
We Italian-American types knew the story, (a number of us, anyway - those generations tended not to talk about it - just assimilate as best as possible) so, thank you for doing this. And for saying Olive Garden isn’t Italian food!
About media’s responsibility: I study Communication Science and we study the following theory: the Culture studies theory by Stuart Hall basically says that media portrays society’s cleavages and also helps with their deepening. (My opinion) this happens because media is free but also is a money making machine. So the media supports their sponsors opinions or supports the public’s opinion. All these people against italians will pick the newspaper which is “against” italians themselves. Money money. It is sad but that’s the way it works.
I like your point - there are advertisers and sponsors which can guide the slant they take. And then added to that, they focus on the more sensationalized stories and then pump it up further to soak up any attention they can.
and we all know who allegedly controls the larger media company's. My pop use to say " only believe half of what you hear. Even then you question the other half."
As a Communications major (Journalism, never worked the field b/c of my experience on college newspaper. Wouldn’t sell my soul to the highest bidder), I can agree it’s all about the Benjamin’s. However, media today is allowed to spew propaganda thanks to former President Obama allowing said propaganda. Today’s media carries the Narrative espoused by the Elite w/ facts derived from thin air (propaganda). As a FB lawyer admitted recently, their “fact checkers” are nothing more than opinion pieces; the same can be said for today’s “media”. Who owns your soul in media/news/communications - that’s the key today.
Sicilian 1st generation here. Thank you for this. My parents experienced a ton of racism in this country, even from other Italians (because northern Italians think they are better than Sicilians because of our Moorish blood...more racism) I can't even tell you how many times I have been asked or accused of mafia involvement and worse. Thank you so much for this. Stories like this all over, my auntie married an Irish man and passed herself as "white", denied us and left us. Broke my moms heart.
Can I ask you a question? Why does Bailey say “us white people” like Italians are white too! I don’t understand how it works in the states cause I’m an Italian living in Italy. For us white is opposite to black but Latinos, Italians ecc is a different thing. Thank you
@@elisa.r. Yeah white is a race, not an ethnicity. I'm a WHITE hispanic, and italians are generally white as well. I think nowadays when people say "stop being so white" they mean a stereotypical very american white person... Rather than skin color.
@@paulaangelina7750 thank you for answering! I think that what they are referring to is a WASP (white American Protestants). It puzzles me that people can be so imprecise. Also I wouldn’t call them racist but xenophobic because as you said it’s an ethnicity not a race
As a Sicilian descendent who is from Louisiana, and my family who were from New Orleans, we thank you for bringing this story to light. Our family speaks of many tragedies that took place in the French Quarter.
I’m born & raised in New Orleans. Still live here and I don’t ever remember learning about this in school. I’m so happy about what Bailey is doing with these stories. She’s bringing so much to light.
@@joysambition Absolutely! Many of my ancestors are from New Orleans born and raised, with some of the earlier ones being Sicilian immigrants. This didn’t only happen to Italians, but the Irish as well as that is my grandmothers side of the family. I remember the horrible stories my great grandparents and grandparents would tell us of growing up in the early 1900s. My mom and dad were both born and raised there but my mom moved closer to Baton Rouge after my father died when I was 7 months old.
Can I ask you a question? Why does Bailey say “us white people” like Italians are white too! I don’t understand how it works in the states cause I’m an Italian living in Italy. For us white is opposite to black and Latinos, Italians ecc is a different thing. Thank you
New Orleans native here. I’m not sure if any locals ever went to the wax museum in the French Quarter when they were growing up. (It’s closed now) It was all about New Orleans history. We use to go there on field trips. They had an exhibit about this.
Please look into the Zimbardo prison experiment (A.k.a. The Stanford experiment)!!! I learned about it in my psychology class. Love your videos! I’ll keep posting this suggestion in the hopes that you see it! 💛
GIIIRL!, look at YOU! literally out here living every bougie goth girls beauty DREAMS. i love everything about this look! the hair, the makeup, the robe, the couch, the background 🤍🤍🤍 plus you just happen to be STUNNIING, with every look you do. thank you for telling these heart breaking stories & bringing awareness to the awful things that have happened in history that no one is talking about. you tell each story so well, it’s easy to listen to and learn from you. keep it up, babe! 😘
Interesting side note, concerning racism and Italians. I live in coal country. When coal camps were a thing, they were often segregated. Most of the white people lived together, African Americans would be in another "camp" section, and Italians often had their own "camp"as well. In the more rural areas of coal country, even though "coal camps" aren't a thing anymore. The housing community, didn't evolve. Coal camp houses, were simply remodeled or demolished, and a new house was put in the same spot. The "camp" names, or "street names" are still the same. Our grandparents will say things like, "She grew up in the Italian camp." You know exactly where that person grew up at. It's amazing how many people aren't taught, or are aware that Italians have been so discriminated against. I've learned so much from Bailey, and simply love that she's putting out quality content.
As an Italian American (second generation) I appreciate you bringing light to this story. We would be nothing without out ancestors and we are a strong group of people!
Lafayette girl here that lived and married an New Orleanian and AGREED😂 nothing has changed stuff is stilllll and will ALWAYS be "unhinged"... Oddly enough that's what makes us down here so interesting...
Hello Bailey! My maternal grandparents moved to Canada from southern Italy in the 40s and 50s. Unfortunately, my nonni and my Italian family experienced extreme prejudice and racism from people due to their Italian blood. No one talks about how horribly Italians were treated, and now, the Italian culture and food has become a normal part of people's lives in North America. I am Canadian, and I never heard about this before! Thank you for telling the stories of people who are overlooked by history. The downtrodden and the victims of all of your videos deserve to be known!
That comment about America being a science project... you hit the nail on the head. Thank you for continually covering all the stories we never learned about
Thank you for speaking about this- people don’t believe me when I tell them this story. The struggle of Italian immigrants is completely overshadowed by the mafia trope pushed out by Hollywood. It is very hurtful and I’m glad this is being heard on a bigger scale.
RIGHT. Not to mention the fact that aside from the mafia, only the stories of super white northern italians get told, so everyone thinks we all had it easy. No one wants to mention how northern italian immigrants distanced themselves from us and spread harmful propaganda. Or how many of us were "colored" until the 1950s. Or anything really--probably partially thanks to the "reunification" of Italy that caused the diaspora of many of our ancestors. Generational trauma doesn't just go away because history was rewritten.
@@ashbatz totally agree. How easily people forget and prefer to completely rewrite history. The issues with the north and south in Italy are still on going. I remember hearing a news anchor in Italy say that there were more Covid cases in the north than in the the south bc northerns are always working- implying those from the south are lazy. It was just gross.
As a New Orleans native I can tell you the city is full of Dark History. We have a lot of museums here and some try to tell the truth but you have to go to learn it. My dad is Italian and my mom is Irish. My mom tells me that her grandmother was so upset that she was marring an Italian. Plus I think I know the Italian slur. I’ve heard it a lot growing up.
We must be on the same wavelength because I was randomly googling stuff about this yesterday after never learning about it prior and open TH-cam today to see that you’ve just done a video about it 🤯
I agree 1000% on the media being held accountable on pushing false narratives on tragic cases, such as this one. They need to be knocked down a couple of dozen notches!!
I second that. Maybe even just shut down unless they can learn to actually be journalist and research and not just put out what the higher ups tell them to and just be honest and not pick and choose what they talk about and put all things out. Stop with the narrative for crying out loud. It's sickening idk how ppl watch the news anymore truly don't understand it at all.
@@rachaelleann9847 EVEN BETTER!!!!❤ Even on what we are seeing in the news about the virus and how anyone that doesn't go along with the media's "guidelines" are automatically pushed to the side and written off as "fake news" just because someone higher up says so. Think whatever you feel, but that's one huge example I can think of.
Exactly!! We have freedom of speech but you can still be sued for deformation of character. I definitely think the media should be held accountable as well! Feel free to say whatever they want but be prepared for other lawsuits that prohibit saying disgusting, misinformed things!
My noni (grandma) is Italian and my papa is Irish. They used to tell me that Irish and Italian didn’t like each other. I didn’t understand why. Love you B!🖤
yes my great Papa would bring my little Irish great grandma with him into all the Italian establishments. A few people said comments here or there under their breath about her but would never say it to his face. I’m pretty sure it’s cause he was mob affiliated and a Chicago cop.
Can we all acknowledge the researcher(s) for this podcast because sometimes valid sources for these topics can be difficult to come by. Sounds like my dream job though 🙂
Hailey I am so sorry to hear about your situation, and I want you to know I am listening if you need to talk or message, I am truly sorry have a blessed day
So crazy. I sent a whole week in NOLA and I went on multiple and I mean multiple walking tours. This wasn’t mentioned one time. Never once. Thank you for covering this. It is an important part of history we should know about!
Once again thank you for your research and stories. I love how you put the stories together while being unbiased and acknowledging people as human beings. Thank you and please continue!!!
My great grandparents immigrated from Italy and settled in a city outside of Philadelphia. The city was mostly Irish and my grandmother would get made fun of and called names. She also went to a mostly Irish school. She said when she was a kid, all she ever wanted to be was Irish. In the household they spoke only Italian and learned English off of the television. It had to be so hard :(
What baffles me and hard to understand is that all people from the United States ARE immigrants to this land and they fight among each other who deserves to be here and who isn't. People get over yourselves, live and let live and get down on your knees and ask for forgiveness everyday b/c ALL OF US are sinners one way or another. Ask yourself what have you done in your life that doesn't deserve scrutiny. STOP THE HATE!
Very true. Pretty much the same as in Australia. Seems like nearly every country needs to own their bit, in taking over land that was already occupied by it's indigenous people. But we aren't responsible for what our ancestors did. But we certainly can acknowledge and own it..
Bailey, you seem a little down today. I know this content is heavy. However, I want to let you know that your videos have helped me through the worst year of my life. You aren’t only educating us on “Dark History” you are giving many of us joy, by your company, in dark hours. I am so thankful ❤️❤️❤️❤️ You have no idea the impact you have made on my life. Thank you!! 😘
@@mariamariafujoshiinurarea2524 sorry, I just didn't know if you thought her name was actually Jessica, or if you knew it was Bailey Sarian. My apologies...
@@mariamariafujoshiinurarea2524 lol 😆 I was hoping so, but didn't know if perhaps this was the first thing of hers you've ever had the pleasure of listening to, and mistakenly thought that was her real name...lol, my bad 😅 sorry about that 💟
Bailey, thank you for always pointing out the racial injustices and never sugar coating in fear of other’s opinions! This is why I, an African American woman will always support you!! Aside from your talent ✨ I even have my family watching your videos now 🤗 love you! 🙆🏾♀️
I'm from Toronto. Half Italian half Portuguese. Both sides immigrated in the early 60s, both sides had shards of broken glass/rocks thrown at them. Even my parents as little kids and their relatives of the same age groups. They were working the hardest, DANGEROUS jobs with no instruction and little pay. My great uncle is missing a few fingers as a result of this. My family pretends none of it happened. My parents act like they didnt experience it, and it was just something in the past. Havung glass thrown at you on a regular basis for walking down the street is evil.
Also, like other commenters here, I thank you for sharing this in hopes of educating people. Italians were the hated immigrants at the time and suffered much discrimination; my parents, as well. Funny how later on Italian singers and actors and Italian food were beloved by all. People are xenophobic, yet very fickle.
Right because of people like the ones who have minds of their of their own. Ofcourse the ones that have guts to go after people to give them grief, like today, are indoctrinated and act like sheep bcuz they cant make their own decisions.
Hello Bailey! I know you might not see this but I just wanted to tell you that your videos really helped me through an incredibly tough time in my life and I really appreciate it! Thank you so much for what you do! :) 💕
Bailey, I would love to see you cover the horrific case of Preston Porter who was lynched in 1900 in Limon, Colorado. His story deserves to be told, and you are the one to tell it. Thank you for constantly opening my eyes to history that has escaped my attention. You are a national treasure.
@@cedrics5241 Don't shoot the messenger! Go after all the state & Govt agencies who release these stats to the public. Being butthurt over the facts is a poor excuse to call it racist, lol! Hilarious.
I love the editing. I love the holding media accountable thought. I love the representation of different ethnicities history and experiences. I love Dark History (so much it was my second most listened to podcast on Spotify Wrapped 🥺).
I’m English and we have an awful, long, and sadly ongoing history of treating immigrant groups terribly… but I’m still shocked by some of these dark history episodes. Definitely not over the Japanese concentration camps.
Every country has an awful history of treating people terribly. There was also alot of religious prosecution happening all over the world too 😔 It was a different time and it's definitely interesting to learn what life was like then
I’m an Italian-Canadian, my family that came in the 50s and 60s were treated like second class citizens. My cousins were attacked by random people on the streets, the police would split up any Italians that were together. My grandparents were ostracized in school and constantly called names, they lost job opportunities, etc. There’s some kind of discrimination for every group, even white groups like the Irish, Slavic, or Italians. Makes me lose hope in humanity
Thank you so much for talking about this! I am third generation Italian American (specifically Sicilian) and no one knows about this. I’ve talk to so many people about this exact thing and not one person had a clue
I had never heard about this one. You are doing amazing work girl. This is not being taught in schools, like all of the history you share, but you guys putting it out there makes is accessible to all of us, old and young. Thank you! I honestly appreciate the work mentally and physically that goes into all this.
As a Sicilian American, I thank you for covering this! I don't know why it isn't taught in school and in fact, many Italian American families don't speak of it either as they tried to bury things like this in hopes that it would somehow help their children assimilate more easily if they didn't know. I learned about this as an adult myself.
My husband is Sicilian and when I mentioned you covering this topic, he said his grandma was attacked in the streets when she was 12. Thank you Bailey!!
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My husband's grandfather came when he was 2. He was a tough man physically and very smart too! He was so awesome and lived to be 94
I thought you were gonna say my husband is Italian & very insulted you consider that mungacake restaurant Italian cuisine 😅
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My husband is sicilian too! Will have to ask him and his family about that. 💔
As an Aboriginal Australian woman, I would personally love to see you do a video on the dark history and colonisation of my country. Just feel like there’s so much white australia and other countries don’t know about what happened here
Absolutely. This would be so important!!!!
Me to I was born there but I don’t know much as I left at 2 years old
This deserves every bit of attention. I was involved with an activist group when I learned about the Aborigines, and I must say it was an experience. I had no idea that the colonialism was still so present today. Your people deserve a platform, and to be spoken about/for by someone who can really make a difference
Absolutely!! its shocking that the majority of the world have no idea what happened and how it still effects the aboriginal population to this day. im from nz so ive learnt a fair bit about it n my aunty and two of my cousins are aboriginal so your history is close to me and incredibly important! would love to see bailey cover this!
The stolen generation or forced adoption or even Auntie Julie from Aradale Lunatic Asylum (she just can’t use Wikipedia at all for Aradale because the don’t even get the year it opened correct 🙄😬)
35:49 This is the part that makes my stomach turn the most... the thought of that poor man trying to climb away and the vigilantes climbing after him and shooting him after he was already dead is so sickening. People who continue an assault on someone after they're already dead are the worst sickos.
I’m s second generation Italian American and unfortunately my great grandfather was killed in New Orleans in that time period. I’m really glad that you covered this story as I feel like it’s really important more people know about this dark history.
I hope Bailey sees and understands how many people, from all over the world, appreciate her bringing so much light and recognition to each of the culture, ethnic, and racial disparities people have and currently suffer from, that seem to get lost throughout history. What you’re doing Bailey is incredible and I hope you realize you’ve influenced and changed the world for the better by keeping victims and their stories alive with your channel and content ❤️
What racial disparities exist today?
Looks great as a blonde
@@ulfson279 is that a joke?
@@cherry9669 nope not at all... I don't see anyone with disparities because I don't call someone weak... they have to call themselves weak...
If someone is in dispair then they have to show me why they have no hope... and no one that exists today has no hope...
America has so many towards any race the gets to high and mighty
As a proud Italian & Sicilian, I'd love to hear a story covering the history of Poveglia Island during the height of the Black Plague. It's really dark.
Great video idea!
I second this!!!
In verità poveglia non ha un cazzo,il posto oscuro e lazzaretto vecio e novo
Seriously the ground is mostly the ashes of burned bodies. Not even dirt. I heard they shut it down to the public cause of how haunted it is and people were getting "possessed" while on the island
Yes
I'm glad somebody is speaking about this!! My great-grandpa's family was treated HORRIBLY when they immigrated to the US from Sicily, they had to change their entire identities and it still wasn't enough. It's truly disturbing how many races/ethnicities have been abused in the US 😔
same!!! my great grandmother came to the stares when she was 10, and she never spoke a word in italian in front of anybody
I agree, super messed up! I am glad you made this point & shared.
The U.S. tried to commit genocide on the Indigenous people who were living on the North American continent. Why would they be any nicer to immigrants? Millions died so they could do a replacement society with Europeans and immigrants from other countries in hopes that Native Americans would disappear and they could pretend they were settling the wilderness and doing God's work of Manifest Destiny that started with the Pilgrims 🙄
This! I'm second generation American. I've done loads of research on my family history
@@gnostic268 100%. I have basically zero connection to both my Italian and Iranian ancestors' cultures bc they had to erase them and fully assimilate in order to feel safe.. yet ppl wanna act like immigrants are coming here to force their cultures and beliefs on ppl 🙄
Thank you Lord for blessing us with Bailey Sarian.
I totally agree 💜❤️ Love some Bailey
Bailey looks great with blonde hair.
You mean Jessica 😂
@@dafutureempress i mean Jessica. LOL
All hail Bailey!
I absolutely loved your comment about holding the media accountable. Having a degree in Journalism, I was taught to present impartial facts in articles, to allow the public to draw their own conclusions. Clearly, that has gone by the wayside. I literally quit a job because the editor told me to slant my story to suit their political agenda. I'm shocked and disheartened that today's so-called journalists hide behind the 1st amendment while cleverly using words to sway the court of public opinion. In our digital age, they have a responsibility to be better!
Name 👏 and 👏 shame
I studied Business Economics, Art History, Advertising & Marketing. I mean the renaissance was enough to show me how the whole system of society works and sadly still seems to work. The whole point of everything seems to be about manipulation of peoples emotional states (colour theory is literally attaching sentiment to people's unconcious or conscious emotional attachment to colour and imagery associated with colour) to basically get them to buy whatever you're selling or vote for you (buy *your* brand) Money money money. The colour of slavery is green. Accountability would be a great start.
I'm third generation Italian-American, and this was only a footnote in our history books. Thank you for sharing this story Bailey! I honestly think only those of Italian descent even know about it.
I'm polish and we need people to tell our story too.
I'm glad Bailey is sharing this story.
I can confirm I did not know any of this despite being sicilian-american
@@luna_acidia right!? It's barely in books.
@@joannajamerson35 I would love to hear more stories involving other ethnicities!
Yes. I’m a 3rd generation Sicilian American too. My great grandfather was off the boat on Ellis island. My grandfather was still being called a white n**ger trying to join a baseball team in 1941 and they refused to let him join the team for being Sicilian. There are still Italian slurs, and sadly even I have been called them before when being proud of my families roots.
I’m sorry Bailey you can’t just blind us with all the gorgeousness! We love a Jessica moment
For reals!! She just slapped me with her gorgeousness!!
Wasn't jessica rabbit a redhead? Why you wanna be THAT jessica?she don't brush her teeth
IT is weird indeed. Everywhere I comment, people tell me how much they love me and my content. Sometimes IT is annoying. But right now, IT would be okay. So say something nice about my content, dear bro
@@rochellethundercloud346 not once did she say Jessica Rabbit. Just Jessica 💁
Bailey, leave some men for the rest of us will ya?
I'm a Sicilian born and raised in Sicily.
You know, till this day us Sicilian are often discriminated even from other Italians as well and it's always been so weird to me seeing a lot of foreigners (especially Americans) romanticize one of the things that ruined my people and my island: mafia. At the end of the day it's always been the cause of innocent Sicilians' discrimination all over the world, and yet today the romanticized concept of mafia is often seen in medias, movies, books...
Anyway, thank you Bailey for telling this story, unfortunately it brought much more pain to the future generations but I'm sure that things are slowly changing.
P.S.: I'd like to point out the fact that most of us Italians/Sicilians are white, so I'm not really sure there are actual "racial" slurs against us?? Or at least I wouldn't use this adjective to describe the insults and other forms of discrimination we may face outside of Sicily, it wouldn't be fair to all the pocs who are victims of actual racism.
I agree with your statement but if I could share my thoughts on racism and the colour of one's skins just because you are white this shouldn't be little the abuse your ancestry experienced it's still very much valid!
Racism isn't just skin colour, racial minority I.e the sicilia people in American at this time were a racial minority even as white people they faced racial prejudice due to the inherited differences as immigrants from a different country. The definition of racism isn't the most thought out from what I've read but as a white British person I'm lucky to never have experienced racism, but many European friends of mine who are white of skin have experienced racial abuse within my company I think because they share the same skin colour people don't see it for the racial abuse it is and even consider it 'banter'
I wouldn’t really call Italians white we are Latin I am a pure bred Italian and I get mistaken for South American or even half cast so yeah skin colour is not an issue if you’re not Anglo Saxon eg: German English etc you face immense racism especially here in Australia 🇦🇺 I still get told to go back to your own country lol 😂 I was born here but lived in Italy 🇮🇹 for 15 years both parents are Italian born and when they migrated from Italy to Australia 🇦🇺 they were kept in like concentration camps believe it or not my Nonno would tell me how they lived it was atrocious…..
I am ashamed to say that I got my ideas of what Mafias were like from the Robert De Niro movie The Irishman 😬
I’m a mixed Italian there’s more mixed Sicilians than u would think
@@Samanthajustinapoliti italy is not in latin america, so we are not latin at all lol. italy is in europe and so we're european, aka white. also, latin people can be white as well.
As a black poc, it really hurts my heart to see comments expressing a familiar sadness of not knowing how rough your ancestors had lived for you to get here. Learning about Emmitt Till and the Tulsa Massacre was really hard for me, because I couldn’t understand how these awful things happened, and nobody talked about them ever. Just want you to know that you are seen and understood 💜 Update: wow the responses. I love the solidarity. I agree with most of you. Let’s unearth all this ugliness so we can all heal. Stay safe and happy everyone 💜💜
On another note I never see people talk my ancestors who were slaves. My family doesn’t talk about it much. My family in Ireland are fine now but they said they’d explain the slavery and royalty from our family line if I was ever able to visit. Blows my mind.
@SkyCop Wife same here! My mom’s parents (irish dad and Scottish mom actually) were super white and they worked in their family’s cotton fields growing up. My pa has had lots of spots removed of skin cancer from long hours out in the fields.
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@SkyCop Wife yes lol both my kids came out with red hair and my daughter still has hers but my son’s hair turned bleach blonde like mine
I grew up in and around Tulsa and they never EVER taught or spoke about it. I didn’t learn about it til I was 20 years old and I can’t believe none of us were told about things like that in our own city. We need to do better
As a Sicilian American- I learned about this from my family at a young age and it was surprisingly taught in my freshman year of HS. It has always and will always sicken me. That’s also why I cannot for the life of me understand how my fellow Italian- Americans can treat black people and other people of color like they’re less than. Racism has no place with me and I have and will always call it out. I’ll never be part of the problem; only part of the solution.
Thank you for covering this, Bailey. Maybe other Italian- Americans will stop and think about their actions and words.
This. Yes. I don’t understand how they can be just as racist as everyone else when our ancestors got the exact same treatment.
My grandparents are Sicilian and I grew up in a loving family in California but when I moved to the Midwest I didn't realize how awful people could really be. My family was so close and loving and accepting that I never knew people were excluded for their skin color!
Yes, this! This is the most baffling part to me. To be discriminated against..and yet, then you turn around and discriminate against others.
THIS. How can we do this when we were "subhuman" at one point too!??
Preach sis
*Bailey Sarian for President 2024!!*
_”Don’t Fight the Drama, Get Aqua Tofana”_
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😂😂😂😂i would vote!!!
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I would vote!
I’m planning on going to school for crime analytics after realizing I’m obsessed with your content and this is something I can actually pursue! Thank you Bailey ❤️
I really hope that your career is in this area, can you keep us updated on your progress
@@Heyhunniesbuffytimmons8513 I need to take a 2 year course, to get a diploma, before I can take Crime Analytics (you need a diploma to go into that course, weird I know) so it’ll take a couple years to actually get there, but I’m very very excited.
@@lisalandry407 girl I am excited for you and you got this
@@Heyhunniesbuffytimmons8513 thank you !
What a great goal. Best wishes! Love from Texas 💙
"America's like one big science project, and the rest of the world is kinda like watching us. Have you ever noticed that or thought about that?"
- Baliey Sarian
This is SERIOUSLY the most insightful thing I have ever heard an American utter.
South Park had an episode like that, except it was aliens watching Earth.
It's always been referred to as an experiment in democracy, all the way back to the founders. This points out why it's wrong to just ignore all the history books. Just because one paragraph is inaccurate doesn't mean the whole chapter is - despite what the greedy fear-mongering media wants you to believe today.
Oh yes that's how early American history was taught to me!
Animal Farm at an early age can really mess with a kids head when you're 8 and still believed there was magic in the world
I mean America is the world technically its so diverse and all its history is so diverse
A city on hill...
Thank you for covering this story, as a second generation Sicilian American it’s important to remember the people and the events that have long been forgotten. My grandparents wanted us to be “Americanized” so we wouldn’t have the same struggles they faced when they came here and I feel like a lot of my own culture was lost because of fear. It’s stories like this that remind me how blessed I am to live in a time where I can be proud to be Sicilian and not persecuted for it.
My grandparents were the same way. They never spoke Italian in the home because they came here and they were Americans. They said the reason they did it was because one of my aunts was hard of hearing and they didn’t want to confuse her between home and school (switching languages), but I think it was because they wanted to assimilate. It always made me sad, because I wish we had grown up with the language, I have always been very proud of my Italian heritage.
I have an Italian cousin that married into my African American family. My mom made sure I knew about the history that we weren’t taught in school. She told me about the mass lynchings of Sicilians but she never gave me much detail. Then my cousin’s sister mentioned it on Facebook earlier this year. The story was so shocking to me that I actually thought of doing a documentary about it. Someone should! Thank you Bailey for doing this story because it is so important. When you said the part about giving Italians Columbus Day, some people feel the same about Juneteenth. A holiday does nothing to erase the atrocities committed toward human beings just because of their race.
Nope. Christopher Columbus day needs to go. They Italians can pick a different person and a different day.
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Actually Italians, much like the Irish St. Patrick's Day, have St. Joseph's Day.
Nope, Columbus Day is awful. It’s weird to side with Italians over indigenous people on this……?
italians are racially white. it would be committed bc of their ethnicity, not their race
Finally!! Someone covering Italian history. I feel like our ancestors get very overlooked by the popularity that is like; Jersey Shore and the Gotti brothers and like mobster lifestyle and that’s just not the case.
Ahhh!! I absolutely agree. I feel like our culture gets overlooked all of the time. I get many many of insults based off of our ancestors and history and hear wayyyyy too many sopranos jokes (I don’t totally mind them hahaha) but it is so great to finally be recognized in a different light for once
yay 🙌 we appreciate you
i was listening to this ep with my partner when it dropped yesterday! he comes from an extremely italian-american household and ironically, he was never allowed to see anything like the sopranos growing up (g*tti killed his grandfather 💀), but we just started watching it together over the holiday and he loves it dhhdfjdg
So true!
Completely agree with you! ❤️
In the name of all the italians like me who didn't know this story.... thanks Bailey, from the bottom of my heart.
One vote for publishing an actual Dark History book with all of the episode content!
Yesssss
I’d buy it!! 💳💳💳
Agreed!
My family “ Schiro” was one of these immigrants. We came over from Sicily to New Orleans in the 1800s. We ended up owning a horse carriage business. We are from Arminian decent that escaped from the Ottomans to Sicily. There is so much of our history in New Orleans. My great grandma was born there in 1888 and died in 1980 something. It’s crazy to wonder how this effected my family.
I am Armenian and my family was survivors of the genocide also
@@anik204 where did y’all escape too? I’ve researched so much lately I had no idea about a lot of it until recently.
@@alanaschiro6700 most escaped to Ellis island in New York. My family went there
They were probably tense and scared, I wouldn’t blame them.
Bailey just going ahead and finishing the last 10 minutes of the story just laying down on the couch surrounded by all things fluffy is SUCH a mood.
Thank you for informing us Queen B.
Sad how there’s still a lot of stereotyping with Italian immigrants today. My Nono has been in Australia for 50/60 years, he’s a big marshmallow, his greeting for his grandkids was to squeeze our cheeks while saying “che beeellllaaa”. I found out recently he came to Australia by accident, he got on the boat thinking it was going to AUSTRIA 😂😂 the man is iconic
Aww thats such a crazy story! He meants to go to Austria but went to Australia? Did he just well it seems nice guess ill say and just lived there and settled down? @aleishataylor
@@lashaesmith3440 pretty much haha, he realised when he was on the boat and just accepted it, he’s been here ever since 😂
Hello from Italy! So as I read from your comment we are still discriminated in the US? One day I will come to visit your country. It's one place (although huge) on my list of the countries I have not covered so far
@@mestesso9845 id say different areas of the country are better for Italians. I’m from Connecticut and Italians are all over CT, Massachusetts, and New York and not much discrimination exists for Italians. I’m currently living in Mississippi and previously lived in Texas and it’s a way different story down in the south. Also the Italian food is awful down here. My family is from Lucca and some stayed there while my grand parents moved to Boston! Hope I get to visit Italy one day!
Honestly me too if I found out I was going to the wrong country. I'd just stay 😂
I’m a second generation Italian-American on both sides and one of my grandpas was from Sicily so I’m so happy that someone finally covered this case! I didn’t even know about it until about a year or two ago.
People forget the horrible things that happened to Italian immigrants back in the day (and some things even still today). It’s crazy how so many different groups have been treated horribly in this country and we don’t even learn about half of them.
@SkyCop Wife As this video focuses on Italians, that is why my comment also focuses on Italians. Like I said, almost all immigrant groups faced many atrocities when coming to this country and our history books do not teach us half of them (and specifically this story that this video is focused on).
This video is allowing people, like me, of Italian decent to come together and speak about things that have happened to our particular group. No one is taking away from the terrible things that happened to other groups. No one is arguing that one group had it worse than another. Please don’t come on here and try to invalidate things that happened to Italians because the Irish also faced atrocities when coming to this country. Almost all groups had it bad and all of the stories deserve to be told.
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Same! So happy someone covered this. My family was from Sicily too ❤️
Thank you for covering this important piece of history. My grandfather was horribly discriminated growing up. When him and my grandmother (Sicilian, Italian and Irish) dated, her father (who was pure Irish) used to call my grandfather racial slurs bc he looked black. When my grandmother got pregnant when she was 18, her father cut contact with her and didn’t speak to her or my grandfather for a few years.
We still get heat for being sicilian to this day, but I am proud of my roots and proud of my family for holding their ground against all the hate.
I’m Sicilian too. It truly shocked me when my dad told me about this and schools had no mention of it. Thank you for talking about it!
There's a reason for that... Italians are considered white... and in school whites can Never, and I mean Never seem as a victim group in schools... trying to argue it when you're an adult is really hard because no one else knows about it and they will continually deny that it ever happened
@V P that's my point, it apparently is completely okay to discriminate against someone's color as long as the color is white... not caring about anything else other than color is the issues Italians, and any other Europeans have today... it makes it completely obvious how hypocritical alot of people are... my sister inlaw (brothers wife) is Hungarian... and if you saw her... she's mayonnaise white... she gets treated the same way as any other white person... the funny part... she had to go through the same immigration, and discrimination any of the people from South of the boarder do in North America... and because of her skin tone people say that her ancestors owned black slaves...
It's sad how ignorant people truly are
I was having such a bad day soons I seen this smiled so hard like a reflex. Thank you for this safe space.
I’d totally vote Bailey for the president. She would make a lot of difference but she does now through her videos. So iconic and I love her 🖤
Lol no. I love her so much. But that doesn’t mean someone should run the country
@@kadeelacayo4806 I totally get what you’re saying.
I wish there could be someone qualified that was also so wonderful!! 😍😍
As an italian girl and specifically sicilian, you have no idea how much a video covering this particular topic means to me, especially since it's you who made it (I've never commented until now but I'm a big fan of your videos 💖). My grandma told me plenty about her father returning to sicily for fear of being targeted by these people (decades after) and it really broke my heart to hear it. I'm sorry in advance if my english isn't perfect and thank you again for talking about this, much love from Messina 😘
My grandfather told me this was why many of our relatives went back up to Chicago to live after seeing the way most Italians were being treated in New Orleans.
@@catheesjourney8805 Even in New Orleans?! 😟
That’s so sad!! These things should never happen. Heartbreaking.
Also, your English is fantastic!!!
@@leahw1189 I truly never understood these behaviours 😔 On second note, THANK YOU SO MUCH!! 😢❤
@@federicamelito8744 Yes, sadly. This was in the late 1800s - early 1900s. I’d say through 1940 at least. When immigration was at its highest New Orleans was the place to be. Jobs, new lives, etc. that’s what my grandfather said everyone was looking for. Sadly, some of the New Orleans natives weren’t open to immigrants and treated Italians and Irish very poorly. We learn “Louisiana History” here, but they definitely don’t tell all of these horror stories.
It boggles my brain that this Irish-descendant man was so hateful to Italian immigrants when the Irish immigrants were ostracized just as badly during the 1840s (probably his father experience this). You think he would be understanding. I never heard of this story at all, thanks for sharing.
He was mixing with Italians to get his $. So it was a profit reason for tolerating newcomers until it became a conflict with different groups of the same immigrants that he was in the middle of. Typical response of narrow minds is to vilify anyone who gets in their way with their cultural or genetic differences brought to the front as the reason to get others to see "other" and thus create hate for a whole group of people(a form of exclusion and justification for outrageous behaviors towards that group).
@@lindatullos9430 true. Still see a lot of that these days. You think we would be better than all of that.
It’s a chain of mistreatment. “If I treat this group worse than how I’m being treated, maybe I’ll be seen as higher up in the oppressors’ eyes”.
@@alpha1solace yeah I was about to say.... Many animals contain far more consciousness than humans
They used to spit on my great great grandmother in NYC for speaking Italian.
Yes, the press should absolutely be held responsible, especially if something like that happens and what is happening now!
all of my grandparents immigrated from italy and sicily during the 1930s and 40s and the stories ive heard about their time when they first got to the states is heartbreaking. they refused to talk about it when i was younger but as i got older, they started to talk about it more. it’s a big reason both of my parents were never taught how to speak sicilian or italian while they were growing up.
My grandfather and his family were Sicilian & they faced this kind of racism in the late 1800s as immigrants to America. Thank you Bailey for sharing this history which we were never taught in school!
Would be interested in you covering the history of Northern Ireland and how it was created.. would love to hear your thoughts!
We Italian-American types knew the story, (a number of us, anyway - those generations tended not to talk about it - just assimilate as best as possible) so, thank you for doing this. And for saying Olive Garden isn’t Italian food!
Hahaha! I'm Toni Licavoli, if you say you ate at olive garden, women faint onto the floor! Hahahaha
Can you even imagine how different the current world would be in the media was held accountable? Mind blowing!
About media’s responsibility:
I study Communication Science and we study the following theory: the Culture studies theory by Stuart Hall basically says that media portrays society’s cleavages and also helps with their deepening.
(My opinion) this happens because media is free but also is a money making machine. So the media supports their sponsors opinions or supports the public’s opinion.
All these people against italians will pick the newspaper which is “against” italians themselves.
Money money.
It is sad but that’s the way it works.
They literally lie about 90% of everything they say!!
lol - your 'opinion' is fact.
I like your point - there are advertisers and sponsors which can guide the slant they take. And then added to that, they focus on the more sensationalized stories and then pump it up further to soak up any attention they can.
and we all know who allegedly controls the larger media company's.
My pop use to say " only believe half of what you hear. Even then you question the other half."
As a Communications major (Journalism, never worked the field b/c of my experience on college newspaper. Wouldn’t sell my soul to the highest bidder), I can agree it’s all about the Benjamin’s. However, media today is allowed to spew propaganda thanks to former President Obama allowing said propaganda. Today’s media carries the Narrative espoused by the Elite w/ facts derived from thin air (propaganda). As a FB lawyer admitted recently, their “fact checkers” are nothing more than opinion pieces; the same can be said for today’s “media”. Who owns your soul in media/news/communications - that’s the key today.
Sicilian 1st generation here. Thank you for this. My parents experienced a ton of racism in this country, even from other Italians (because northern Italians think they are better than Sicilians because of our Moorish blood...more racism) I can't even tell you how many times I have been asked or accused of mafia involvement and worse. Thank you so much for this. Stories like this all over, my auntie married an Irish man and passed herself as "white", denied us and left us. Broke my moms heart.
Can I ask you a question? Why does Bailey say “us white people” like Italians are white too! I don’t understand how it works in the states cause I’m an Italian living in Italy. For us white is opposite to black but Latinos, Italians ecc is a different thing. Thank you
Wow I didn’t even realize this was a thing 🥺
Wow I didn’t even realize this was a thing 🥺
@@elisa.r. Yeah white is a race, not an ethnicity. I'm a WHITE hispanic, and italians are generally white as well. I think nowadays when people say "stop being so white" they mean a stereotypical very american white person... Rather than skin color.
@@paulaangelina7750 thank you for answering! I think that what they are referring to is a WASP (white American Protestants). It puzzles me that people can be so imprecise. Also I wouldn’t call them racist but xenophobic because as you said it’s an ethnicity not a race
As a Sicilian descendent who is from Louisiana, and my family who were from New Orleans, we thank you for bringing this story to light. Our family speaks of many tragedies that took place in the French Quarter.
I’m born & raised in New Orleans. Still live here and I don’t ever remember learning about this in school. I’m so happy about what Bailey is doing with these stories. She’s bringing so much to light.
@@joysambition Absolutely! Many of my ancestors are from New Orleans born and raised, with some of the earlier ones being Sicilian immigrants. This didn’t only happen to Italians, but the Irish as well as that is my grandmothers side of the family. I remember the horrible stories my great grandparents and grandparents would tell us of growing up in the early 1900s. My mom and dad were both born and raised there but my mom moved closer to Baton Rouge after my father died when I was 7 months old.
@@joysambition They didn't teach us any of this. Or a lot of other topics Bailey has covered, which were conveniently left out of our history classes.
Can I ask you a question? Why does Bailey say “us white people” like Italians are white too! I don’t understand how it works in the states cause I’m an Italian living in Italy. For us white is opposite to black and Latinos, Italians ecc is a different thing. Thank you
New Orleans native here. I’m not sure if any locals ever went to the wax museum in the French Quarter when they were growing up. (It’s closed now) It was all about New Orleans history. We use to go there on field trips. They had an exhibit about this.
Please look into the Zimbardo prison experiment
(A.k.a. The Stanford experiment)!!! I learned about it in my psychology class. Love your videos! I’ll keep posting this suggestion in the hopes that you see it! 💛
GIIIRL!, look at YOU! literally out here living every bougie goth girls beauty DREAMS. i love everything about this look! the hair, the makeup, the robe, the couch, the background 🤍🤍🤍 plus you just happen to be STUNNIING, with every look you do.
thank you for telling these heart breaking stories & bringing awareness to the awful things that have happened in history that no one is talking about. you tell each story so well, it’s easy to listen to and learn from you. keep it up, babe! 😘
Ikr? I’m living for her whole vibe
Her. Robe. Game. GUH! 😻
Anyone have insight on what she’s wearing???
@@ADollOnAMusicBox it’s listed under the video info. That robe is like everything!
So glad you did this one. How Italian immigrants and Irish immigrants were treated for the longest time goes untold too often
They chose to come to america
I think it’s also important to remember that not all immigrants to this country were willing either. Great video as always, Bailey!
Interesting side note, concerning racism and Italians. I live in coal country. When coal camps were a thing, they were often segregated. Most of the white people lived together, African Americans would be in another "camp" section, and Italians often had their own "camp"as well. In the more rural areas of coal country, even though "coal camps" aren't a thing anymore. The housing community, didn't evolve. Coal camp houses, were simply remodeled or demolished, and a new house was put in the same spot. The "camp" names, or "street names" are still the same. Our grandparents will say things like, "She grew up in the Italian camp." You know exactly where that person grew up at. It's amazing how many people aren't taught, or are aware that Italians have been so discriminated against. I've learned so much from Bailey, and simply love that she's putting out quality content.
As an Italian American (second generation) I appreciate you bringing light to this story. We would be nothing without out ancestors and we are a strong group of people!
The way you tell stories is very comforting
Bailey: “New Orleans used to be unhinged.”
Me, a South Louisiananan: “….used to be??! ”
😂 Right!
My thoughts as well. Lived in New Orleans from '04 to '18.
Indeed. I came here to say, New Orleans is still a mess. 😢
Lol
Lafayette girl here that lived and married an New Orleanian and AGREED😂 nothing has changed stuff is stilllll and will ALWAYS be "unhinged"... Oddly enough that's what makes us down here so interesting...
Hello Bailey! My maternal grandparents moved to Canada from southern Italy in the 40s and 50s. Unfortunately, my nonni and my Italian family experienced extreme prejudice and racism from people due to their Italian blood. No one talks about how horribly Italians were treated, and now, the Italian culture and food has become a normal part of people's lives in North America. I am Canadian, and I never heard about this before! Thank you for telling the stories of people who are overlooked by history. The downtrodden and the victims of all of your videos deserve to be known!
That comment about America being a science project... you hit the nail on the head. Thank you for continually covering all the stories we never learned about
Thank you for speaking about this- people don’t believe me when I tell them this story. The struggle of Italian immigrants is completely overshadowed by the mafia trope pushed out by Hollywood. It is very hurtful and I’m glad this is being heard on a bigger scale.
RIGHT. Not to mention the fact that aside from the mafia, only the stories of super white northern italians get told, so everyone thinks we all had it easy. No one wants to mention how northern italian immigrants distanced themselves from us and spread harmful propaganda. Or how many of us were "colored" until the 1950s. Or anything really--probably partially thanks to the "reunification" of Italy that caused the diaspora of many of our ancestors. Generational trauma doesn't just go away because history was rewritten.
@@ashbatz totally agree. How easily people forget and prefer to completely rewrite history. The issues with the north and south in Italy are still on going. I remember hearing a news anchor in Italy say that there were more Covid cases in the north than in the the south bc northerns are always working- implying those from the south are lazy. It was just gross.
Time to make a movie with the Italian side of the story.
Who else absolutely feels blessed by Bailey when she uploads?? Such an amazing, beautiful soul who can keep your attention.
“They were practically salivating”
Bailey’s narrations are a major reason why I love TH-cam 😂🖤
As a New Orleans native I can tell you the city is full of Dark History. We have a lot of museums here and some try to tell the truth but you have to go to learn it. My dad is Italian and my mom is Irish. My mom tells me that her grandmother was so upset that she was marring an Italian. Plus I think I know the Italian slur. I’ve heard it a lot growing up.
Yes, unfortunately, my mother and her family heard it a lot too
What is the slur?
@@elgooghosent7080 Guinea? Not sure, but my older relatives heard it growing up.
I don’t know why but I find it so funny when Bailey adds in extra noises
“My name is Jessica mMM”
We must be on the same wavelength because I was randomly googling stuff about this yesterday after never learning about it prior and open TH-cam today to see that you’ve just done a video about it 🤯
I agree 1000% on the media being held accountable on pushing false narratives on tragic cases, such as this one.
They need to be knocked down a couple of dozen notches!!
I second that. Maybe even just shut down unless they can learn to actually be journalist and research and not just put out what the higher ups tell them to and just be honest and not pick and choose what they talk about and put all things out. Stop with the narrative for crying out loud. It's sickening idk how ppl watch the news anymore truly don't understand it at all.
@@rachaelleann9847 EVEN BETTER!!!!❤
Even on what we are seeing in the news about the virus and how anyone that doesn't go along with the media's "guidelines" are automatically pushed to the side and written off as "fake news" just because someone higher up says so. Think whatever you feel, but that's one huge example I can think of.
Exactly!! We have freedom of speech but you can still be sued for deformation of character. I definitely think the media should be held accountable as well! Feel free to say whatever they want but be prepared for other lawsuits that prohibit saying disgusting, misinformed things!
My noni (grandma) is Italian and my papa is Irish. They used to tell me that Irish and Italian didn’t like each other. I didn’t understand why. Love you B!🖤
yes my great Papa would bring my little Irish great grandma with him into all the Italian establishments. A few people said comments here or there under their breath about her but would never say it to his face. I’m pretty sure it’s cause he was mob affiliated and a Chicago cop.
Can we all acknowledge the researcher(s) for this podcast because sometimes valid sources for these topics can be difficult to come by. Sounds like my dream job though 🙂
I’m so glad this is being talked about, it often gets swept under the rug.
Thank you for making me get back into learning history even though I’m out of school still the best subject
Thank you Bailey for covering this. As a Sicilian-American, this story means a lot to me.
I’m getting evicted and am about to be homeless and listening to this is helping me take my mind off of it and calm down, thank you Bailey
Hailey I am so sorry to hear about your situation, and I want you to know I am listening if you need to talk or message, I am truly sorry have a blessed day
Plz be safe and hoping for blessings for you and your family.
What city are you from?
@@MissCherryBomb69 Middletown Pennsylvania
So crazy. I sent a whole week in NOLA and I went on multiple and I mean multiple walking tours. This wasn’t mentioned one time. Never once. Thank you for covering this. It is an important part of history we should know about!
Once again thank you for your research and stories. I love how you put the stories together while being unbiased and acknowledging people as human beings. Thank you and please continue!!!
Bailey has no clue how much her videos save me from having nothing to watch. 🥰💕
My great grandparents immigrated from Italy and settled in a city outside of Philadelphia. The city was mostly Irish and my grandmother would get made fun of and called names. She also went to a mostly Irish school. She said when she was a kid, all she ever wanted to be was Irish. In the household they spoke only Italian and learned English off of the television. It had to be so hard :(
You should do a story on starlight tours in Saskatchewan Canada. Specifically, the story of Neil Stonechild.
What baffles me and hard to understand is that all people from the United States ARE immigrants to this land and they fight among each other who deserves to be here and who isn't. People get over yourselves, live and let live and get down on your knees and ask for forgiveness everyday b/c ALL OF US are sinners one way or another. Ask yourself what have you done in your life that doesn't deserve scrutiny. STOP THE HATE!
Exactlyyyy
Amen! Everyone should just Coexist!
Very true.
Pretty much the same as in Australia. Seems like nearly every country needs to own their bit, in taking over land that was already occupied by it's indigenous people.
But we aren't responsible for what our ancestors did. But we certainly can acknowledge and own it..
This isn't just a US thing unfortunately. There's a lot of racism in Australia, Canada, China, etc. Its a world wide human issue and its so sad.
It's crazy right?
Can we appreciate bailey posting two times a week❤❤❤
Bailey, you seem a little down today. I know this content is heavy. However, I want to let you know that your videos have helped me through the worst year of my life. You aren’t only educating us on “Dark History” you are giving many of us joy, by your company, in dark hours. I am so thankful ❤️❤️❤️❤️ You have no idea the impact you have made on my life. Thank you!! 😘
u better keep this podcast running for a very long time Jessica! cuz girl you re giving us a very interesting version of history
Um...?
@@KimDrewTheLine ? 😃
@@mariamariafujoshiinurarea2524 sorry, I just didn't know if you thought her name was actually Jessica, or if you knew it was Bailey Sarian. My apologies...
@@KimDrewTheLine 0:41 😅
It was a joke
@@mariamariafujoshiinurarea2524 lol 😆
I was hoping so, but didn't know if perhaps this was the first thing of hers you've ever had the pleasure of listening to, and mistakenly thought that was her real name...lol, my bad 😅 sorry about that 💟
Bailey, thank you for always pointing out the racial injustices and never sugar coating in fear of other’s opinions! This is why I, an African American woman will always support you!! Aside from your talent ✨
I even have my family watching your videos now 🤗 love you! 🙆🏾♀️
My grandparents are Italian immigrants. Thank you for doing this video! 💝💝
Thank you covering this. I feel like nobody ever knows what I'm talking about when I bring this up. I'm 4th Gen Sicilian American.
I love you Bailey literally haven't been here and forever and forgot how much I love your channel 🥰
welcome back!
I'm from Toronto. Half Italian half Portuguese. Both sides immigrated in the early 60s, both sides had shards of broken glass/rocks thrown at them. Even my parents as little kids and their relatives of the same age groups. They were working the hardest, DANGEROUS jobs with no instruction and little pay. My great uncle is missing a few fingers as a result of this. My family pretends none of it happened. My parents act like they didnt experience it, and it was just something in the past. Havung glass thrown at you on a regular basis for walking down the street is evil.
Also, like other commenters here, I thank you for sharing this in hopes of educating people. Italians were the hated immigrants at the time and suffered much discrimination; my parents, as well. Funny how later on Italian singers and actors and Italian food were beloved by all. People are xenophobic, yet very fickle.
Right because of people like the ones who have minds of their of their own. Ofcourse the ones that have guts to go after people to give them grief, like today, are indoctrinated and act like sheep bcuz they cant make their own decisions.
Hello Bailey! I know you might not see this but I just wanted to tell you that your videos really helped me through an incredibly tough time in my life and I really appreciate it! Thank you so much for what you do! :) 💕
Just when I thought that I was gonna be able to sneak in a nap... Lol Bailey blesses us!!🙌😻
Nothing makes my day more than a Bailey upload!!
This makes me feel horrible. I've lived my entire life an hour from New Orleans. 34 yrs. I've never heard about this.
Please educate others.
I’ve never heard about this and I definitely didn’t know that Columbus Day was trying to be an ‘I’m sorry’ to Italians
Bailey, I would love to see you cover the horrific case of Preston Porter who was lynched in 1900 in Limon, Colorado. His story deserves to be told, and you are the one to tell it. Thank you for constantly opening my eyes to history that has escaped my attention. You are a national treasure.
Maybe she should ask why 93% of black men killed are killed by black men! Isn't that horrific????
@@isabellind1292 the racist exposes itself as usual...
@@cedrics5241 Don't shoot the messenger! Go after all the state & Govt agencies who release these stats to the public. Being butthurt over the facts is a poor excuse to call it racist, lol! Hilarious.
My family came from Italy and Sicily but ended up in Chicago. I can’t believe I have never heard of this story before! But thank you for sharing.
I love the editing. I love the holding media accountable thought. I love the representation of different ethnicities history and experiences. I love Dark History (so much it was my second most listened to podcast on Spotify Wrapped 🥺).
Bailey!!! Just an idea for future merch, the big velvet pillows with a little embroidery Joan Crowford, and we need some robes! 🖤🖤🖤
I’m English and we have an awful, long, and sadly ongoing history of treating immigrant groups terribly… but I’m still shocked by some of these dark history episodes. Definitely not over the Japanese concentration camps.
How are those immigrants treating you now? I believe you are the minority in London now. Crazy.
Every country has an awful history of treating people terribly. There was also alot of religious prosecution happening all over the world too 😔 It was a different time and it's definitely interesting to learn what life was like then
Almost time for you next biggest fans arrival!!!!(: love you bailey!
I’m an Italian-Canadian, my family that came in the 50s and 60s were treated like second class citizens. My cousins were attacked by random people on the streets, the police would split up any Italians that were together. My grandparents were ostracized in school and constantly called names, they lost job opportunities, etc. There’s some kind of discrimination for every group, even white groups like the Irish, Slavic, or Italians. Makes me lose hope in humanity
Not humanity, just fascists. Js. There's a difference.
North America in general but especially the US needs to de-escalate ourselves _fast._
I still feel this way after many years. College was wonderful and full of nice people, but high school really was BS.
Thank you so much for talking about this! I am third generation Italian American (specifically Sicilian) and no one knows about this. I’ve talk to so many people about this exact thing and not one person had a clue
I'm a Sicilian. My grandfather came from Sicily. So watching this is very interesting.
As a Sicilian thank you for talking about this. Our history isn’t talked about enough. ❤️🔥. Love you!!
The fact that Bailey reclines on the couch like we're all debating theories and solutions to fix future shitshows - it's a mood!
I had never heard about this one. You are doing amazing work girl. This is not being taught in schools, like all of the history you share, but you guys putting it out there makes is accessible to all of us, old and young.
Thank you! I honestly appreciate the work mentally and physically that goes into all this.
From the bottom of my quarter Sicilian, half Italian heritage heart, thank you for covering this.
I love how you finished this video just lying down on the couch because this story is so frustrating.
As a Sicilian American, I thank you for covering this! I don't know why it isn't taught in school and in fact, many Italian American families don't speak of it either as they tried to bury things like this in hopes that it would somehow help their children assimilate more easily if they didn't know. I learned about this as an adult myself.
Always great to hear a real piece of US (no textbook) history. Just traces back more of this country’s disturbed stories and wrong doings.