MY NEW SAD UNDERSTANDING

Terrone is the term used by Italians to refer to people who live from Rome down in the country or in the regions of Campania, Puglia (and worst of all Sicily). What’s hugely different though is a terrone isn’t someone of a different color, way less possibility of better/higher education and opportunities to find a well paid job are available to people living in regions in the south of the country, as a result there’s been a true migration of “terroni” to the north of the country, primarily because of the presence of real jobs in the “industrialized” part of the country.

Keep in mind that a “terrone” looks identical to someone who lives in the north of the country, the language only sounds little different due to the particular accent – like someone from New York sounds different from a Texan -  but “terroni” look identical to any other Italian citizen no matter where they are from. So for some time, when my living in the USA was still fresh, I had thought that black people are like the Italian “terroni”, BUT now that I’ve become a citizen and have been living here in the USA for more than 15 years I realize that black people aren’t like “terroni” at all, they are 100% American, even if the whites really treat black people like they were “terroni”, in fact the access to well-paid jobs and higher education remain forbidden to back people only for the color of the skin, as a result black people end up living in what whites call ghettos, have much less opportunities of a well-paid job and their access to better or higher education is pretty much impossible.

I can in fact say with confidence – after having lived in CA for few years – that the “terroni” here are the people from Mexico, who share identical conditions to the ones in Italy (i.e. low-paid jobs, no access to good education, treatments from the “people from the north” = San Diego and above, like they belong to some type of inferior race – or like they too are black) same applies for Floridians too, who treat and consider as “terroni” all the people from islands of the Caribbean’s.

This was my mindset when I watched this movie named CHI-RAQ, initially because the title itself was somewhat mysterious to me, but as I was watching it, I realized to have tears in my eyes and I couldn’t stop watching it until the last name of the closing credits was on the screen.

Boy! Am I glad to be a white here, it seems like the times of slavery haven’t changed, and they just became more modern and sophisticated.

I give to this movie a pack of scotch to drink while watching it with family and best friends, to have the perfect conditions to discuss the its message, if anyone thinks that we are in 2017 and these are still the conditions of complete inferiority we make our brothers of black skin live in, we must realize that it shouldn’t be any wonder if black people are so angry and would prefer brake it all up rather than living in it.

1. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/social-mobility-memos/2015/12/15/guns-and-race-the-different-worlds-of-black-and-white-americans/
2. http://www.dailywire.com/news/7441/7-statistics-you-need-know-about-black-black-crime-aaron-bandler#
3. https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-09-29/race-and-homicide-in-america-by-the-numbers
4. http://www.theroot.com/why-we-never-talk-about-black-on-black-crime-an-answer-1819092337
5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_crime_in_the_United_States