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pecosbob

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3. But it is all a tangle

Reply to Hekate (Reply #2)

Wed Nov 13, 2019, 08:13 AM

Nov 2019

from roots to history to the advance of social justice here and in many of the places our ancestors left behind. It is all inextricably connected. I can think of a half dozen related threads I could spawn from my thoughts on this, but as you said it is late.

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Noel Ignatiev, scholar who called for abolishing whiteness, dies at 78 [View all] Hekate Nov 2019 OP

I believe I've read that after the Civil War, landlords in DC preferred to rent to former slaves PoindexterOglethorpe Nov 2019 #1

The Irish in my family came at different times in the 1800s... Hekate Nov 2019 #2

But it is all a tangle pecosbob Nov 2019 #3

Not too long. Thank you for all that. PoindexterOglethorpe Nov 2019 #5

K&R and it's ironic that many white people try to equalize plight of Irish people to black people ck4829 Nov 2019 #4

I was briefly on Face Book, & was sent an essay about how the indentured servitude of the Irish was Hekate Nov 2019 #6