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Politics : The Obama - Clinton Disaster -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (65101)	1/26/2012 12:59:36 PM
From: John	2 Recommendations Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 103300

It's starting to make sense to me now. Considering (a) his strong reluctance to acknowledge that The Sons of Italy would accept Blacks of Italian lineage, and (b) his insistence that there are no Black Italians, strongly indicates that he is an elitist who is ashamed to admit that Italy has many Blacks in their country and many generations of mixed-race/ethnically-diverse Italians [1]. In fact, he has stated that Italy is a very homogeneous nation, despite the fact that the evidence strongly suggests otherwise. The fact is that Italy is a great melting pot of Africa, Europe, and the Arab world. 1. italianrap.com excerpt: Race has long been a factor in Italian identity. After national unification in 1861, northern Italians racialized the South as a land of lazy, violent, criminal inferior people. "Africa begins at Rome," is an old adage still heard today in Italy. Southern Italians' racial ambiguity has been championed by the Italian group Almamegretta. [...] Italian immigrants encountered a racist system based on socially marked categories of "white" and "black." Italians often found themselves in an in-between position of not quite black and not quite white, while always receiving the benefits of whiteness from the federal government. It wasn't until the 1930s and 1940s that Italian Americans began to assert a "white" identity, and sometimes with a vengeance.