melanzane


a slur commonly used by italians and italian-americans to denote a person of color. melanzane in italian means “eggplant”, which itself is used as a slur against blacks because of the almost black color of an eggplant.

the word melanzane (or melanzana) derives from the words mela insana, meaning “noxious apple”. it is often pr-nounced “moolinyan” and written as such.
“don’t come around here no more you f-cking melanzane (pr-nounced moolinyan) or i’ll kill you.” says italian mobster francis locascio to a black drug dealer.

“f-ckin’ moolinyan, black son of a b-tch! get the f-ck back to jamaica.” says italian mobster vito satrianicchi to black hustler.

“keep the drugs to the eggplants. i don’t want them sold to italians or any whites. capisce?” says mob boss carmine smadaluzzo to his heroin dealers.

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