Italians Became White After 9/11 🤣🤣🤣
Summary
Italians became white after 9/11" is the scorching take an anonymous rider delivers to Kareem, and the two run wild with it. The rider argues that Italians were portrayed as violent, oily criminals through the '90s, occupying a liminal space between white and brown. Then 9/11 hit their indigenous lands (Staten Island, Brooklyn, Jersey) and suddenly the FDNY heroes and Rudy Giuliani transformed the whole group's racial status. Italians are the Indians of Europe, the rider insists. Tony Soprano is basically Gandhi to Jersey people. The conversation spirals through pasta versus biryani, whether millennial Italians like Anthony actually want to be people of color for the spice, and if Luigi Mangione has made them brown again. It's not about skin color, it's about attitude. Mafioso vibes. The whole thing is absurd, provocative, and genuinely funny.
Full Transcript
So what's your take? Italians became white after 9/11? 100% agree. That is right. They were people of color. They were people of color. '70s, '80s, '90s—like, who were the villains in like cinema and in TV, right? The oily, olive oil, dark-skinned violent criminals. They were the bottom rung of society. They were the lowest of the whites, but the top for the browns.
I think that's still true. That's still probably true. That's still true.
Have you told an Italian this take? I have told Italians this take.
What do they do? They agree? I think they are confused.
Yeah, 'cause you know when 9/11 happens, right? That's basically the Pearl Harbor on these indigenous Italian lands—Staten Island, Brooklyn, Jersey, the Bronx. And you know, the two towers become the Leaning Tower of Pisa, and it's under the Capo Rudy Giuliani. He's the mayor. All these Peters and Pauls in the FDNY—like, it was an attack on their homeland. Italians became white after 9/11. Did anyone else get promoted or demoted after 9/11? Well, I feel like our people might have gotten demoted a little.
Well, we became the worst. I think so.
Do you have any Italian friends? I got many Italian friends.
What's your favorite Italian food? Well, I got to say their pasta is like our biryani. There's so many imp... pastas. Are Italians the Indians? Italians are of Europe. Yes. Tony Soprano's like Gond, yeah? To Jersey people, he's 100% Gandhi.
Yeah, yeah, but he didn't go on a starving diet. He just ate.
Do you think Italians want to be white or do they want to be people of color? 'Cause I see it both ways. Like, the cops and the firefighters, they want to be white. They want to be white. But I think uh, millennials, like Anthony, he wants to be black. They're people of color 'cause they they want the spice. They they want—they are the spiciest whites. So they feel obligated to kind of be a people of color.
Does Luigi make them brown again? I think, think so. It's not about the color of the skin. It's about the attitude. It's the vibe. Mafioso guy. Mafioso guy. Italians don't really have a day. I feel bad. I I actually feel bad. Day and 9/11.