Lawrence just said his parents came from Ireland, considered a shithole country...

[Amaryllis]

lots of people on TV reporting shithole tonight. Lawrence said it's gonna be hard to parents to explain this to their kids. But isn't that the normal these days?

[Sophia4]

1. Seems so strange today, but when the Irish came in large numbers to the US

they were considered to be horrible. They were looked down on. Especially true in the 19th century at the time of the Civil War.

[Hekate]

8. They came in a wave during the Potato Famine, destitute, illiterate, starved, sick...

The ships were called coffin ships because of the high incidence of typhus aboard. Public health officials at ports in Canada and the US quarantined the ships offshore as a (for real) public health hazard. One of my ancestors started out with her whole family and ended up with just one sister by the time they landed in Canada. They then lied their way across the border into the US.

Illiterate? Mostly. As punisment for Irish obduracy in clinging to Roman Catholicism and refusing to convert to English Protestantism, Irish schools were closed and forbidden.

In the worst assessments, Irish immigrants were considered "apelike" and "incapable of assimilation."

It's a pity all the "white" people in this country don't remember how their ancestors were received when they got here, and practice a whole lotta empathy for newer arrivals.

[Sophia4]

10. So true. Some of my ancestors were indentured servants even as children.

They were abused, treated very badly. They were better off than slaves because at the end of their term of indenture, they were free -- supposedly -- as long as their master had not impregnated them or married them off to someone. They were better off than the slaves, but they still suffered a lot. We forget that part of our history. Conveniently.

[OnDoutside]

12. It wasn't a Potato, it was a TORNADO.

100% agree with what you said.

[cbreezen]

2. My son gets it.

Parents must be truthful, but understand that it might take time. Kid's mature differently. Keep up the discussion.

[onecaliberal]

3. Im shocked how many people on tv are saying shithole with no censoring.

[Wellstone ruled]

4. Pure outrage!

The next 24 hours will tell if these on Air Talents Continue the outrage.

[onecaliberal]

5. Yes for once theyre as angry as we are.

[Wellstone ruled]

6. The Fourth estate

can make or break a President. and they made this POS,now the question is,will they break this POS.

[onecaliberal]

7. I certainly hope he finally crossed a line for them. He crossed it years ago for me.

[Skittles]

11. this is an occasion that calls for it

[Hekate]

9. The real shithole is Trump's mouth. nt

[Sharpshooter007]

13. Are his parents actually Irish proper or Irish-American?

Not that it matters, just that wiki just says his parents were of Irish descent.

But anyway yeah anything non-WASP was derided as a shithole even the Germans (where Trumps ancestors come from).