re: #145 Jay C

Jeez, is there nothing today’s “alt-right” won’t try to promulgate, regard of how ahistorical/nonsensical it might be?*

A tad late for St. Pat’s Day, but I found this at the New York Times’ site: The Myth of “Irish Slaves”

Complete with “cites” from Alex Jones, and reeking of racist subtext: what a shock…..

I really hate the “Irish slaves” crap because it uses the very real difficult lives that Irish people faced in the first waves of Irish emigration to shit on other groups i.e. African Americans and Native-Americans that fared far worse. I have no doubt that life was tough for my Irish ancestors but at the same time, Emmett Till was brutally murdered and his murderers acquitted in my father’s lifetime.