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Supposedly, Al Capone once said about African-Americans "these poor bastards are going through the same kind of crap that us Italians had to put up with a generation ago. Even worse! So I'm glad to help them make a living". Was his attitude unique amongst Italian-Americans at the time?

by /u/King_Vercingetorix in /r/AskHistorians

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