Better than just blindly declaring that something doesn't exist, without offering any data or research to support it.
19th and 20th century European immigrants faced a lot of discrimination until the post World War II boom, when the GI Bill and the private home lending industry, which was generous to just about anyone who wasn't black, Latino or Asian, enabled many of them to assimilate into the middle class.
"...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
