Gangs of New York was the most openly racist movie I have ever seen, in modern history. I was genuinely shocked at how the recent irish immigrants and especially the blacks were treated

Irish immigrants getting that extreme

from the Anglo-Saxon U.S xenophobic nativists, and the irish being AS ferociously and savagely racist against the impoverished blacks, who competed against the irish on the same scarce low wage jobs and a better ladder on America's

racial and social hierarchy. Both were viewed as

at that time.
The black guy joining Leo DiCaprio's Irish gang

The same irish who

at blacks.
Daniel Day Lewis had a good performance in that movie. DiCaprio was merely average.
American History X was not as bad as Gangs of N.Y when it came to the racist shyt. The racial attitudes of the 19th century were