Ethnic Whites - The Long Sixties: Clash of Radicalisms

The Long Sixties: Clash of Radicalisms

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1960’s Italian American Radicals vs. Black Panthers

1960’s Italian American Radicals vs. Black Panthers

Joe Columbo formed the Italian American Civil Rights' League which teamed up with Meir Kahane's JDL against black radicals. However, Meir Kahane put some distance between himself as Michael Imperiale who he saw as a racist. Michael Imperiale was the founder of the "North Ward First Aid Squad" an accused

1969 Radical Gay Riot vs. Police Bigots

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1969 Radical Gay Riot vs. Police Bigots

The Stonewall Rebellion in NYC signalled the start of the gay pride movement, which has continued its progressive and liberation movement until this day. Here we had oppressive Irish (as seen through the phrase "paddy-wagon") and Italian Catholic lower-middle class cops facing down a rebellion of an ethnic/class multitude

1968 Rioting Police vs. Student Protestors

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1968 Rioting Police vs. Student Protestors

Irish-American Mayor Daley was quite a bigot, referring to Senator Abraham Ribicoff as a "Jew Sonovabitch." Senator Abraham Ribicoff was the Senator who at the Chicago Democratic Convention said Daley's police forces were using "Gestapo tactics." So here the conflict is between upper-middle class and lower-middle class White Ethnics, each