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Actually, the Irish were terribly discriminated against by other whites. Of course nowhere near the extent as blacks or American Indians, but, it was pretty bad.
Sound familiar?
"The Chicago Post wrote, "The Irish fill our prisons, our poor houses...Scratch a convict or a pauper, and the chances are that you tickle the skin of an Irish Catholic. Putting them on a boat and sending them home would end crime in this country."
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Early Americans disdained this type of work, fit only for servants, the common sentiment being, "Let Negroes be servants, and if not Negroes, let Irishmen fill their place...""
Discriminated against by whom? Other whites, no.........other whites who still granted them the right to be treated as a human being - something they never extended to black folk.
Look up working conditions for the whites who made the Hoover Dam, mined the iron from the Iron Range and those who built the skyscrapers in New York. No, they weren't slaves or even labeled "slaves," but I can assure you their working conditions were hardly a walk in the park. Same with many of the factories that (white, European) children and women worked during the Industrial Revolution.
Actually, the Irish were terribly discriminated against by other whites. Of course nowhere near the extent as blacks or American Indians, but, it was pretty bad.
Well, there ya go.
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Sound familiar?
"The Chicago Post wrote, "The Irish fill our prisons, our poor houses...Scratch a convict or a pauper, and the chances are that you tickle the skin of an Irish Catholic. Putting them on a boat and sending them home would end crime in this country."
...
Early Americans disdained this type of work, fit only for servants, the common sentiment being, "Let Negroes be servants, and if not Negroes, let Irishmen fill their place...""
Look up working conditions for the whites who made the Hoover Dam, mined the iron from the Iron Range and those who built the skyscrapers in New York. No, they weren't slaves or even labeled "slaves," but I can assure you their working conditions were hardly a walk in the park. Same with many of the factories that (white, European) children and women worked during the Industrial Revolution.
Me heart bleeds.
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You pull out the victim card way too often.
All I'm saying is that whites have always had it better than blacks in America. That's no victim card. That's called the truth.
I'm sorry, but name me a human being that can live without 12% of his/her frickin' DNA?
I'm sorry, but name me a human being that is more effected by 12% of his/her DNA than they are 88% of their DNA.
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Again, YOU ARE NOT SPECIAL!! Get it out of your mind that you are because you are not. Geezus, how many times do you have to be told that before you get it through your goddamn head?
Again, I NEVER CLAIMED BEING NON-BLACK MAKES ME SPECIAL!! Get that in your mind because I am not. Blacks have a different experience from us mixed race people. We are not better, not worse, just different. How F*****ing hard is that to understand?
Again, I NEVER CLAIMED BEING NON-BLACK MAKES ME SPECIAL!! Get that in your mind because I am not. Blacks have a different experience from us mixed race people. We are not better, not worse, just different. How F*****ing hard is that to understand?
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They don't want to understand. Holding ourselves apart because we are different is offensive to them.
They (the ones here whining) have such low self esteem that anything they consider not wanting to be black upsets them.
They are probably foaming at the mouth right now about you "wanting to be white." Lol
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