Umm... if anyone remembers that there is history between when jesus roamed the earth and 1776, they would know that the Irish were sold into slavery in the mid 1600's to Barbados. But you don't hear anything about it in History, nor do you hear Irish people bitching and moaning that they should get special treatment because their great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandparents we slaves in the tobacco fields of Barbados
What pisses me off is statements like this:
http://www.yale.edu/glc/tangledroots/Barbadosed.htm wrote:
African slaves and Irish natives shared a common fate on the island of Barbados.....Oliver Cromwell "barbadosed" Irish who refused to clear off their land and allowed other Irish to be kidnaped from the streets of Ireland and transported to Barbados. Those who were barbadosed were sold as slaves or indentured servants, to British planters. They lived in slave conditions and had no control over the number of years they had to serve.....Both groups suffered in harsh conditions and joined together to revolt against British settlers.....The enslavement of Africans in Barbados continued ...... By then the kidnaped Irish had disappeared into history....
Hmm.. they were both in crappy conditions, forced into involuntary servitude, had no control over their service... but the africans are considered slaves where as the Irish are referred to as "kidnapped". Some how, in any sense of logic, if two people are experiencing the exact conditions known as slavery, they're both considered slaves.
I bet I just surprised a bunch of you. Go ahead, Google "Irish Barbados".. wow, now why wasn't that taught in your class?
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