The Italian American One Voice Coalition (“IAOVC”), the nation’s largest independent Italian American anti-bias organization, is calling out Saturday Night Live (“SNL”) for perpetrating a pattern of bigoted, racial slurs of Italians. SNL has launched a pattern of comments now equating Italians as non-whites.

In a skit on the last show, guest Lady Gaga and SNL cast member Bowen Yang deliberately manipulate the Eric Clapton song “Wonderful tonight” with the slur “…and you just don’t realize, Italians aren’t white.” In a previous show, during the Weekend Update segment, Colin Jost states – “Prime Minister Georgia Meloni has been accused of spreading white supremacist ideas, which is crazy!” He then incredulously asks, “We’re now counting Italians as whites?”