I think we should include the Irish for this. We got a lot of abuse over the years, for being Irish and for being catholic.
” We got a lot of abuse over the years, for being Irish and for being catholic.”
Double prizes!!
Does Kamala Harris owe us Irish some reparations?
Her ancestor Hamilton Brown was a sugar planter and slave owner in Saint Ann Parish, Jamaica, which he represented in the House of Assembly of Jamaica for 22 years.
In 1832, he met Henry Whiteley on his trip to Jamaica to whom he argued that Jamaican slaves were better off than the poor of England and therefore the British government should not interfere with the way the Jamaican planters managed their slaves; Whiteley went on to witness harsh and arbitrary whipping of slaves at the plantations that he visited during his stay.
After the emancipation of slaves throughout the British Empire in 1833 by the Slavery Abolition Act, Brown was active in trying to recruit Irish people to work in Jamaica. In December 1835, 121 people from Ballymoney, Antrim, set off from Belfast for Jamaica on the James Ray, a brig owned by Brown. They settled in Saint Ann Parish. In 1836 he brought a further 185 Irish people to Saint Ann. An effort by planters in 1840 to encourage large scale Irish migration to Jamaica to settle lands that might otherwise be occupied by newly-freed slaves, failed after the project was criticized in Ireland as potentially making slaves of the migrants.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/134630249/hamilton-brown
https://www.infowars.com/a-true-democrat-kamala-harris-direct-descendant-of-slave-owners/
I’m in!
What about those "Irish need not apply" signs? I get nightmare thinking about what my great-great grandfather had to go through. Where are my reparations?
That was my first thought regarding reparations! Maybe we can bring a class action suit against Queenie Liz, to regain all our vast lands, our heritage in Ireland!
absolutely! The Sassanaugh shipped hundreds of Irish to the new world as slaves, and they were treated worse than Africans! I want my reparations!
Not the Irish!
Italians.
#MeToo
I’m with you on that. I’m born and raised a proud American. My people ALL came from Ireland. All Catholic.