Sally Garozzo | Clinical Hypnotherapist Brighton & Online

I was sitting on the beach yesterday absentmindedly scrolling, when out of nowhere a video appeared that flooded me with an acute recognition of something I hadn’t consciously seen before.

It felt like a blinding light piercing my awareness, illuminating dark corners of my psyche that had remained unexposed for decades.

The video told the story of Sicilians who migrated to America and were segregated under Jim Crow laws. They were considered neither white nor black and experienced their own form of racism known as Italophobia.

There was even a mass lynching of Sicilians in New Orleans in 1891 after a jury failed to convict several Italian immigrants following the death of a police chief.

I watched the video, cried, and then walked to my poignantly timed therapy session talking to my GPT about the possibility of my Sicilian father, who moved to London in 1969, having experienced racism himself.

My whole body sank with overwhelming grief.

Isn’t it strange ho