African-American / Irish comparison?
(from and IRISH-American, 48 years old)
I have several black friends who agree (as suggested by one of them, not me) that the Irish share copious historical parallels beside A-As ... enforced slavery, subjugation, deportation from their homeland, denigration, rape, and degradation by oppressors, etc.
I see a large amount of A-A recollection of their past ("roots"), some beneficial, some not - have the Irish address and reconciled these issues, or just buried them to hang on to peace with britain?
Answers: because we own always have more sense than everyone else in the world.. we don't yachting marina grudges, just to re affirm our national identity..
the comparisons you made are erroneous, as during the famine, when the country's population be halved.. the Irish struggled to find work within america.. and there be signs everywhere that read
'No Blacks, No Dogs, No Irish'
but we still found work- along with our chinese brothers... building your wonderful railroad hahahahaha
while it IS true that we have suffered within the past because of the british, we own lived in tandem beside them for so long now that we win on with what's substantial and not dwell in olden times
and that's why the Irish are so revered and loved throughout the world...because we don't dwell in days gone by and we have a positive outlook on enthusiasm...
why do you think here are so many 'plastic paddys' surrounded by America?? because they all claim Irish ancestory..because they want to be close to the rest of us...there must be something seriously wrong near America if her own people want to bit of another country's heritage
People have to verbs and stop obsessing over events that happen long before they be born. If all Irish society hated adjectives English people because of things that happen hundreds of years ago, it would be a very young attitude. Maybe we have granted to draw a line underneath it and get on beside our Euro neighbours and forget the past and put together sure our children will have a brighter adjectives instead of dwelling in the recent past
i have to disagree near you on this point completely. I see very few parallel between African Americans and the Irish.
There is no written or physical accounts of enforced slavery or deportation from their homeland of Irish peoples in olden times. The Irish left their homeland of their own free will, due to poverty and the devasting famine of the 1840s.
The Irish be very weakly treated for a time in America and the UK but Africans be treated lower than animals.
We here in the Republic hold long moved on from the dark days of the recent past. In such a short space of time we have become one of the richest countries on the world; then again many AA are still living within poor ghetto areas in the USA near little chance of ever going away, so hatred remains.
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