This is why i don't fukk with mob movies like i used to. And especially all these mob guys doing interviews. There's nothing romantic and they're not men of honor.
I always thought Goodfellas and Sopranos did a pretty accurate job of dispelling this idea that the Italians were these highly intelligent men of honor.
Most were bumbling idiots, only a select few at the top were intelligent and most of the intelligent ones had no balls.
There’s also this myth that black people were scared to stand up to them. My grandfather was in the streets around that time and I have enough evidence to believe that the Italians knew who to try and not to try when it came to black people.
Like that post @WheresWallace just made about Frank Matthews.