Reply #13: White Irish people were frequently victimized here [View All]

[silverojo]

They were discriminated against ("No Irish need apply" signs)...made to work in mines because black slaves had monetary value and Irish people didn't...Irish girls and women, against their will, had their long hair cut short so the long hair would be sold for wigs...were forced to live in filthy parts of cities because "good" landlords wouldn't rent to them..."little" things like that.

The whole reason the Irish came here in the first place was to escape persecution in their homeland. There was no real "famine"--the Brits simply wouldn't allow the Irish to keep the crops they raised. No, the Brits forcibly took the crops from Irish farmers and sold them for profit...and if an Irish person dared try to sneakily take some of their own crops to eat, he/she would be shot on sight. The Brits forced the Irish to stop using their own language IN THEIR OWN COUNTRY, and made them speak English instead. When the Irish fled to this land, they traveled on ships with conditions so bad, they were known as "coffin ships".

And shall we discuss how white Jews have faced discrimination here? (I think it can safely be said that, in the history of the world, no race has suffered more from bigotry than Jews who were persecuted and murdered en masse during WWII.)

Where is it written that white people have never suffered? Contrary to popular (racist) belief, ALL people have suffered from persecution at some point, hence the many wars we have faced throughout history.