Italians were treated very poorly but they never accepted a hand out .
Nonsense.
The New Deal programs that white Americans, including Italian-Americans benefited from were a hand out.
"...the successful annihilation of organized crime's subculture in America would rock the 'legitimate' world's foundation, which would ultimately force fundamental social changes and redistributions of wealth and power in this country. Meyer Lansky's dream was to bond the two worlds together so that one could not survive without the other." - Dan E. Moldea
