NoTeaPartyPleez
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Ok. So the lesson of the day is....
All people of all color and ethnicity at many points in history have been poor and oppressed.
But only modern blacks get to use it as an excuse.
Got it.
It's stunning isn't it. The Irish were slaves in the Americas. We don't see them giving slavery as an excuse to fail at life in 2015 do we?
Oh, for chrissake....There really is a sucker born every minute:
‘Irish slaves’: the convenient myth
LIAM HOGAN 14 January 2015
"""""The conflation of indentured servitude with chattel slavery in the ‘Irish slaves’ narrative whitewashes history in the service of Irish nationalist and white supremacist causes. Its resurgence in the wake of Ferguson reflects many Americans’ denial of the entrenched racism still prevalent in their society.
It was with a heavy heart and no small amount of anger that I decided it was necessary to write a public refutation of the insidious myth that the Irish were once chattel slaves in the British colonies. The subject of this myth is not an issue in academic circles, for there is unanimous agreement, based on overwhelming evidence, that the Irish were never subjected to perpetual, hereditary slavery in the colonies, based on notions of ‘race’. Unfortunately this is not the case in the public domain and the ‘Irish slaves’ myth has been shared so frequently online that it has gone viral. """
February 2014 interview with Infowars.com, the narrative of the ‘White slaves’ is continuously promoted. The most influential book to claim that there was ‘white slavery’ in Colonial America was Michael Hoffman’s They Were White and They Were Slaves: The Untold History of the Enslavement of Whites in Early America. Self-published in 1993, Hoffman, a Holocaust denier, unsurprisingly blames the Atlantic slave trade on the Jews.
Irish slaves the convenient myth openDemocracy