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Obama says immigrants being treated like Irish during Famine
The Irish Times ^ | April 25, 2017 | Staff

Posted on 04/26/2017 1:11:09 PM PDT by Trump20162020

Barack Obama said that immigrants to the US are being demonised in the same way as Irish people who arrived in America after the Famine.

In his first public speech since leaving office, the former US President said the Irish were treated like the “other” in the 19th century just like Muslims are today. Mr Obama drew parallels between the two periods in American history and that in both immigration policy was “‘driven by biases”.

(Excerpt) Read more at irishtimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: famine; immigrants; irish; obama; obamaspeech
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To: TADSLOS

I see what you did there. “We don’t want the Irish “.

“The Sheriff is a n.......dong! “.


21 posted on 04/26/2017 1:43:00 PM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Trump20162020

Whenever I think about wanting to hear what obummer thinks I look at what comes out of my backside and flush the toilet. The feeling immediately goes away.


22 posted on 04/26/2017 1:44:36 PM PDT by Boomer (The MSM and Radicalized Dem Party are One and the SAME!)
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To: dp0622

They’re being hired for pennies to do jobs that are far too dangerous to risk valuable slaves on?


23 posted on 04/26/2017 1:45:21 PM PDT by pepsi_junkie
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To: Trump20162020
Only Obama idiots believe him. Unfortunately there are many idiots in this country. If “immigrants” were treated so poorly by us, THEY WOULD NOT BE COMING HERE!
24 posted on 04/26/2017 1:47:10 PM PDT by Chgogal (I will NOT submit, therefore, Jihadists hate me.)
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To: Trump20162020

get past this, Obama...

while the Irish were God fearing hard working people, the moslems are lazy sponges who think they are entitled to all the Irish worked for...

the moelsms want to make slaves of the Irish...


25 posted on 04/26/2017 1:49:04 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: TADSLOS

Yep , Obama must have watched Blazing Saddles while on vacation


26 posted on 04/26/2017 1:49:26 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Trump20162020

Dumbo better read his history. Nobody is starving anyone. What a blasted idiot. Lord please save us from these Godless, lying thugs.


27 posted on 04/26/2017 1:49:55 PM PDT by Bitsy
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To: Trump20162020

He’s gone racial again!


28 posted on 04/26/2017 1:51:39 PM PDT by Crucial
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To: pepsi_junkie

Really?!?!! More info please.

didn’t know about this.

not of irish descent but interested.


29 posted on 04/26/2017 1:51:47 PM PDT by dp0622 (IThe only thing an upper crust Conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: Trump20162020
Immigration without assimilation as a means of destroying a culture: 2 Kings 17:23 until the Lord removed Israel out of his sight, as he had spoken by all his servants the prophets. So Israel was exiled from their own land to Assyria until this day. Assyria Resettles Samaria 24 And the king of Assyria brought people from Babylon, Cuthah, Avva, Hamath, and Sepharva′im, and placed them in the cities of Samar′ia instead of the people of Israel; and they took possession of Samar′ia, and dwelt in its cities.
30 posted on 04/26/2017 1:52:00 PM PDT by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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To: Trump20162020

Wasn’t Obama an a-hole to the Irish?


31 posted on 04/26/2017 1:52:58 PM PDT by Crucial
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To: Trump20162020

Obama also once said, that the GOP solution to illegal immigration, was a moat, with alligators in the moat. The man is a horse’s blank in a lot of ways.


32 posted on 04/26/2017 1:54:16 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Trump20162020

As the proud heir to a family that came on a coffin ship in Black 47, which sent its sons to places like Maryes Heights and Antietam with the 69TH NYV, who saw their churches burned, their humanity mocked with signs like No dogs or Irish, who saw Irish children swept up from the slums streets of NY and sent on the Orphan trains, their true families to not see them again, as a proud son of those people for whom Ireland was a dream but for whom America was their country, I can say the Secret Service would be at my door if I said what I really feel about Obama and his comparisons.


33 posted on 04/26/2017 1:56:55 PM PDT by xkaydet65
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To: Trump20162020

Actually the Irish were treated worse, and they were here legally. The illegals have been given benefits the Irish could only have dreamed of, thanks to you Bambi.


34 posted on 04/26/2017 1:59:35 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: Trump20162020

The Irish were not trained from the cradle to hate and want to destroy us.
Obama is STILL trying to shove more and more dangerous anti-Christian Moslems down our throats.

Obama needs to SHUT the F up! And hopefully take his damned prayer rug back to Kenya or Indonesia with him. There are plenty of mosques in either of his countries....and if he stays quiet I would even let him visit his favorite ChiTown bath house once in awhile


35 posted on 04/26/2017 2:01:24 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicans are not born, they're excreted." -- Marcus Tillius Cicero)
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To: Trump20162020

Yeah,the Irish were treated poorly, but THEY WENT ABOUT THEIR BUSINESS WORKING FOR A LIVING AND EDUCATING THEIR KIDS-——and voila——success.

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36 posted on 04/26/2017 2:04:24 PM PDT by Mears
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To: dp0622
In New Orleans, construction of the New Basin Canal was one of those jobs. The canal, which ran from Uptown out to Lake Pontchartrain, required that miles of swampland be drained and cleared, then the canal dug. No slave owner was willing to risk his farm labor on such a project. The Irish were willing to take those jobs, however, even though thousands (estimates range from a low of 4,000 to a high of 30,000) perished from yellow fever.

NOLA History: The Irish in New Orleans

37 posted on 04/26/2017 2:06:01 PM PDT by pepsi_junkie
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To: Trump20162020

How does he know? Was he around at that time.


38 posted on 04/26/2017 2:19:25 PM PDT by mulligan
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Our ancestors weren’t defecating in corners of bus stops and prostituting their little boys. But of course, Bathhouse Barry wants the Christian worldview wiped off the face of the earth so that muslim ethics of lusting after boys and goats and hating and mutilating women is “normal” in Western countries.

Vice (ignorance) is slavery. The ignorant, low IQ islamic hordes are to be the jackboots for the fema camps. They need evil, vile people to run the gulags who won’t mind raping little children or women or men or killing them all.

Worldview matters. The irrational filthy muslim worldview is incompatible with freedom—free will and individualism is only a Christian concept which created our Justice System and bathhouse Barry loathes virtue and God (Objective Truth).


39 posted on 04/26/2017 2:48:53 PM PDT by savagesusie (When Law ceases to be Just, it ceases to be Law. (Thomas A./Founders/John Marshall)/Nuremberg)
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To: Trump20162020

Hey Bonzo! STFU! You aren’t the president anymore. Go back to pimping and selling dope.


40 posted on 04/26/2017 2:53:09 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Illegal immigration is the first step in the voter fraud process.)
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