Word: anti-italian
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...some ways it was ironic that the bloodletting should erupt now. Until last summer, many Americans were half-persuaded that the Mafia was chimerical. In New York, Mobster Joseph Colombo organized the Italian-American Civil Rights League, using many law-abiding Italian-Americans as a shield for the Syndicate. The Mafia and La Cosa Nostra, the league argued, were anti-Italian figments of the FBI'S imagination. Colombo even succeeded in embarrassing the producer of The Godfather into deleting the two names from the script. Then, at a "Unity Day" celebration in Manhattan's Columbus Circle last June...
...unpublished books, who make combination pigpens and playpens of their universities. The remaining 96% detest them as heartily as I do. They are the kids who invite me to their campuses, give me their ovations. To call a guy "anti-youth" because he is revolted by the gangsters among them is as fraudulent as to call LIFE magazine "anti-Italian" because it is revolted by the Mafia...
People who are oppressed want the oppressor off their backs. If he happens to be Italian, somebody's going to say you're anti-Italian. It's ridiculous. It only becomes a charge of anti-Semitism when some person needs a political platform. It's all part of a very definite effort on the part of some people who are trying to keep the black community isolated and fragmented...
Keating has continually insisted that he does not charge Kennedy with being pro-Nazi, anti-Negro, or anti-Italian; the only thing he claims to question is Kennedy's judgment (and there're his qualifications). Similarly, Keating denies he is actively seeing the backing of any voting bloc and criticizes his opponent for appealing to such groups; yet Keating's bid for bloc support is as plain as the title of one of his campaign throwaways: "Why is Nasser Working to Defeat Keating...
...would dislike living next to Negroes. The Jewish population itself appears to have a rather high level of prejudice against other groups, especially with regard to Negroes and Puerto Ricans. In fact, Jewish respondents showed a greater level of prejudice toward others than others toward Jews. Negroes are anti-Italian and anti-Semitic to nearly the same extent as native Europeans...