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The Irish slave trade began when James II sold 30,000 Irish prisoners as slaves to the New World. His Proclamation of 1625 required Irish political prisoners be sent overseas and sold to English settlers in the West Indies. By the mid 1600s, the Irish were the main slaves sold to Antigua and Montserrat. At that time, 70% of the total population of Montserrat were Irish slaves
Ireland quickly became the biggest source of human livestock for English merchants. The majority of the early slaves to the New World were actually white.
From 1641 to 1652, over 500,000 Irish were killed by the English and another 300,000 were sold as slaves. Ireland’s population fell from about 1,500,000 to 600,000 in one single decade
Solidarity is not meant to be comfortable. It is not shining light on yourself as ally at the expense of the oppressed who are demanding their counternarratives be centralized. It is understanding that your whiteness protects you from certain things which in turn prohibits you from participation in others, because at the end of the day, when you get tired of marching and chanting, you can put your hands down and feel confident that the police won’t see you as a threat.
I want to think that white people care about systemic racism. I want to think they are outraged by Mike Brown’s murder, that they are bursting with righteous anger and that they want to riot because the state of our country’s “criminal justice” system is unacceptable.
originally posted by: Benevolent Heretic
a reply to: jadedANDcynical
Dear Angry White People, The Ferguson Protest Was Not About You
Some of you decided to rage and whine on the Black Lives Matter protest Facebook group about how this was segregation, and how your life matters too, and how we should screw ourselves if we don't want to include you. Well said, angry white people. But in case you haven't realized, everything in the world is already about you.
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Towards the end of the protest, you were asked nicely to move. A small act of kindness to let your fellow black protesters get a glance at the center (where many of couldn't see due to the large turnout). Some of us needed to see that center after such an emotionally charged day. After all, you had been standing there for 1 out of the 1.5 hour protest. I sincerely thank those who moved. Where I was located, as well as a few other spots, barely any white people budged. If you're having trouble with that, you either disliked having a black person tell you what to do, or you are so full of your white privilege that you didn't feel you needed to move. After all, you got there first, right?
My feeling is, Ferguson is their fight. I am an ally and I support them. But they have to rise up and make this happen. No one else can do it for them.
Police brutality in general is my fight. But in the cases of police targeting blacks, I don't have a dog in that race. I will cheer for them, but if they would prefer I step back, I'm going to step back. Not because they don't like white people, but because they are fighting for their lives and I respect them for that.
This is not about me. Or any white person.
originally posted by: Benevolent Heretic
originally posted by: Grovit
a reply to: Benevolent Heretic
they may not hate you but it seems they dont want you as an ally.
youre the wrong color
And what proof do you have of that? They have said they DO want allies. They DO want support. I don't know what you're reading. DO you have a link to something that backs up your statement?
when talking about the brown case why do you keep saying he was killed for walking down the street?
I never said that. When he came in contact with the cop, he was walking down the street. Trying to compare that to a case where a naked guy was banging on the PD windows, high on hallucinogens, yelling at the cops is a different scenario entirely.
I'm just so tired of this argument. Neither of us is going to change our minds... Another "agree to disagree", I guess.
originally posted by: jheated5
I'm loving these bleeding heart liberals being lambasted by the people they're trying to support... Just shows how brain dead people like that can be.
If such a thing as a race war breaks out, say bye bye to black people in America, shooting themselves in the foot is right! Be careful what you wish for.....
originally posted by: 3u40r15m
originally posted by: jheated5
I'm loving these bleeding heart liberals being lambasted by the people they're trying to support... Just shows how brain dead people like that can be.
If such a thing as a race war breaks out, say bye bye to black people in America, shooting themselves in the foot is right! Be careful what you wish for.....
Right.... We got Mexicans, Asians and other NON whites. Plus I'm sure the border will open up and we can finally say bye bye whitey..... And BTW you did not build this country... We did.
originally posted by: Ancient Champion
originally posted by: Krakatoa
originally posted by: Ancient Champion
From what i read on here so far it sounds like the protest are doomed to fail. Nothing will change from these protest.
And when it does fail, who do you think gets the blame?
The fools who don't want whites to help. MLK made a difference by protesting along side whites.
originally posted by: Krazysh0t
a reply to: Ancient Champion
Many people today in the black community don't really have a clear idea of what MLK actually stood for. They just know he did a lot for them, but don't know how. MLK understood that the key to overcoming racism is to come together against it, not to push the other party away,
originally posted by: wanderingconfusion
originally posted by: 3u40r15m
originally posted by: jheated5
I'm loving these bleeding heart liberals being lambasted by the people they're trying to support... Just shows how brain dead people like that can be.
If such a thing as a race war breaks out, say bye bye to black people in America, shooting themselves in the foot is right! Be careful what you wish for.....
Right.... We got Mexicans, Asians and other NON whites. Plus I'm sure the border will open up and we can finally say bye bye whitey..... And BTW you did not build this country... We did.
Lokhu ezinye Bull#. Awukwazi ukulwa nokucwasa kanye nokucwasa.