The characters of the Irish in America for decades in the 1800s depicted them as apes and brutes and were quite racist indeed. The Italians were lynched in Louisiana in the 1890s and in Florida and considered “worse” than black Americans by some accounts. Change was not swift, and Columbus Day was invented in 1934 in part to whiten them into the mainstream, most for political purposes. That whole “too fast” ting has constantly been used and is quite a devious piece of rhetoric. Thanks much for raising that insight.