A lot of Irish Americans — too many of whom are MAGA —need to draw on their immigration history of being starved out of their home country by a hateful, imperial occupier enforcing deliberately cruel laws. It is a sin to view people as ‘other’ when your ancestors suffered that fate.
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Karen Attiah
My grandma was a Biafra war survivor.
So it’s likely certain survival instincts for me are kicking in about our current situation.
But from her I learned it’s possible for things to be a little shaky for a while, and then one day all of a sudden, your world is gone, and you have to leave.
So it’s likely certain survival instincts for me are kicking in about our current situation.
But from her I learned it’s possible for things to be a little shaky for a while, and then one day all of a sudden, your world is gone, and you have to leave.
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Anyone calling themselves Irish-anything couldn’t support what’s going on and has gone on.
They’re not Irish they’re boot lickers, quislings for the regime
That’s not Irish
https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300281972/becoming-irish-american/
Anyway there's a great Irish historian named Liam Hogan who does a great job talking about the actual history of Irish people in North America
If not for the concept of Blackness, after all, the Irish (and Italians) couldn’t *be* white.
Frederick Douglass had an interesting connection to Ireland.
https://celticjunction.org/cjac/arts-review/issue-13-samhain-2020/frederick-douglass-found-freedom-in-ireland/