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Racism, when is it right. never when your white ? Supposedly they say.
however this may no longer true.
I am a Caucasian on the census form, only because "Mud person" or in proper, American racist terminology "Mud Blood" was unavailable for my selection. My grandparents, all four of them, emigrated to America (from Ireland) between the great wars. My grandfather, on my fathers side, was "Black Irish" well before he arrived
This concept,(racism) I have noticed, changed recently. Them sneaky ( the man, the lily white, privileged European elite bastards) ,have Bastardized the term and it's meaning.The old oppressor is at it again. under a new name, liberal "progressiveness" Don't feel this is true. Ask Helen Tomas about the "Jew".
While I personalty have not thought of the subject in many years, Since I was a teenager,at last recall. I was referred to as a "Mic Paddy". Now in my home state, the state of Massachusetts. This translates (pardon my French) as "Irish @!$%#". I did not like that it then. I enjoy seeing half of that slur, on newsvine only slightly less, now.
does anyone else feel his name is openly insulting to people of Irish descent.
For the Irish this is similar to AZ Ni**er .
does liberal racism know no limit ?
what say the newsvine liberal anti racist police ?
http://gyral.blackshell.com/names.html
Paddy
Irish
Derogatory slur word for Irish people. Used mainly in Britain. Similar negativity connotations as "@!$%#". Comes from St. Patrick.
Now, not only is this a childish example of racism.
In my case it had and has a double meaning. As I acknowledge the fact ,that for an Irish man. I posses an inordinate amount of Melanin in my skin (hence "BLACK" Irish).You may have seen my tag line kpr37 "black Irish" Pagan.This does have meaning. looking at myself in the mirror, I see a man of substantial color.It is undeniably obvious.Where this inordinate amount of Melanin came from, is open for debate.
now what you may ask, does this have to do with racism and the term "Black Irish"as we all know "Black" in America any ways , infers African descent. The Irish are glow in the dark, white you say.
In truth, Ireland was settled by several groups of people: nomadic hunters and gatherers; pre-Celts and the Cruithan (Picts); Iron-age Celts, first from Northern Europe, and the second possibly from Spain. This--a hypothesis--is reflected by the existence of the Milesians. Also, there is the curious story of the "Black Irish"--that the existence of the short, dark-haired and occasionally olive-skinned people, usually found in the west of Ireland
ever read The Irish Pagan "Bible" Labor Gabala Erenn verse 16 book one. One of many possibilities. not likely, however not out of the question.http://www.ancienttexts.org/library/celtic/ctexts/lebor1.html#1
§16. Now Sru s. Esru s. Gaedel, he it is who was chieftain for the Gaedil who went out of Egypt after Pharao was drowned [with his host in the Red Sea of Israel]: Seven hundred and seventy years from the Flood till then.
Egypt is considered a part of Africa. (my skin tone runs from a well tanned in winter, to a deep chestnut brown in the Summer) I am not a man lacking in color.(LOL)
Four hundred and forty years from that time in which Pharao was drowned, and after Sru s. Esru came out of Egypt, till the time when the sons of Mil came into Ireland, to wit, Eber and Eremon: hereanent [one] said-- Forty and four hundred of years--it is no falsehood-
A more likely explanation would be the Caribbean connection.
You see my first ancestors arriving in the Americas were chained together in the bottom of an English ship.You must understand, slavery is not something easily forgotten, within a family or clan. Coming from the village of Tuath i nGaoth Dobhair, a large part of the clan had moved to Dublin by the 1600s and were successful traders in beef and leather or so my family legend tells me. Dragheda is only a short distance from Dublin. This was a horrible place to raise a family,as it turned out.This is where a third of my family, is said to have disappeared without a trace.
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This practice of interbreeding Irish females with African men went on for several decades and was so widespread that, in 1681, legislation was passed
“forbidding the practice of mating Irish slave women to African slave men for the purpose of producing slaves for sale.”
In short, it was stopped only because it interfered with the profits of a large slave transport company.
During the 1650s decade of Cromwell’s Reign of Terror, over 100,000 Irish children, generally from 10 to 14 years old, were taken from Catholic parents and sold as slaves in the West Indies, Virginia and New England. In fact, more Irish were sold as slaves to the American colonies and plantations from 1651 to 1660 than the total existing “free” population of the Americas!
while it is true the English hated the Catholics, they reserved their true hatred toward the Gaelic speaking pagan population, as they were considered heathens,men with out G*ds grace. less than human.
The French sociologist, Gustave de Beaumont, visited Ireland in 1835 and wrote: “I have seen the Indian in his forests, and the Negro in his chains, and thought, as I contemplated their pitiable condition, that I saw the very extreme of human wretchedness; but I did not then know the condition of unfortunate Ireland…In all countries, more or less, paupers may be discovered; but an entire nation of paupers is what was never seen until it was shown in Ireland.”
out of Africa OUT OF IRELAND
W.E.B. Du Bois, founder of the NAACP, and the preeminent historian on slavery in the Americas, wrote: "Any attempt to consider the attitude of the English colonies toward the African slave-trademust be prefaced by a word as to the attitude of England herself and the development of the trade in her hands." Du Bois gives us a logical starting place for discussing racism and the legacy of slavery in America: it begins with the"Mother Country's" dominant role in the Atlantic slave trade. Before all white Europeans are lumped together with the British as colonists and slave keepers, let us consider Britain's treatment of the Irish and the Africans, and the many parallels of subjugation and enslavement to be drawn.
is it me, or do self described liberal progressive, embrace, if not revel in. racial hate.
