David Marino
Jul 20, 2017 · 2 min read

“You are an official member of the Oppressor Group known as ‘White Males.’ Because of that, you are guilty of the historical sins of ALL white males, and you should be punished for it.”

How is that “taking my side? And I wasn t threatening, I was making a statement. I am Sicilian, not European. If you read Sicilian history, then you’ll know why that’s important. Sicilians were the slave’s to everyone, especially the Roman and Ottoman empires 1500 years before the blacks were ever enslaved by Europe. Egyptians and Byzantine owned us as well. We were the blacks of the Mediterranean. We never had a war fought to free us from slavery. We had to endure over 1900 years of slavery before we had an escape route. Our escape route was America, where we were treated like criminals, not because we were, but because the Italians (romans) who’d enslaved us and dehumanized us like the white Americans did to blacks continued that tradition here. My people were lynched an masse in the south as a form of vigilante justice that resulted from an outcry of injustice done to the poor white folks of the south, regular God fearing Christian folk who obey the law and don’t judge based on skin color.

We only have a country now because we were allowed to by the Italians. Had it been up to them, we’d still be subject to Italy. They Stoll call is wops (The Italian term to Sicilians that compares to the ‘n' word for blacks). So, when I say I’ve never owned a slave, nor has anyone in my family, I am not just saying we didn’t own one because we were slave’s ourselves.

Lumping me in with white folks is no better than lumping all blacks together, all Japanese or Chinese, or anyone else. It is racism, pure and simple, and demonstrates the hypocrisy of the “tolerance” movement.

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