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To: Sub-Driver

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.


7 posted on 02/22/2019 8:37:57 PM PST by CarmichaelPatriot
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Hey, hey, We're talking about minorities who have faced discrimination and ridicule. Let's not forget the Irish and Italians.
Then what about the Polish, blond jokes, and never forget Ole and Lena!!
26 posted on 02/22/2019 9:22:05 PM PST by rascal
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” We got a lot of abuse over the years, for being Irish and for being catholic.”

Double prizes!!


35 posted on 02/22/2019 9:40:00 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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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/


36 posted on 02/22/2019 9:40:12 PM PST by Brown Deer (America First!)
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To: CarmichaelPatriot
Same here. My ancestral people were Irish Catholics.I've had a go round here just the other day with a few anti-Catholic bigots on FR. That I would have to do something like that here is infuriating.
44 posted on 02/22/2019 10:26:48 PM PST by jmacusa ("The more numerous the laws the more corrupt the government''.)
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56 posted on 02/22/2019 11:40:23 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (Every time a lefty cries "racism", a Trump voter gets his wings.)
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I’m in!


58 posted on 02/23/2019 12:19:31 AM PST by Eagles6
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To: CarmichaelPatriot
We got a lot of abuse over the years, for being Irish and for being catholic.

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?

62 posted on 02/23/2019 1:30:04 AM PST by Cowboy Bob ("Other People's Money" = The life blood of Liberalism)
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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!


90 posted on 02/23/2019 6:05:06 AM PST by miserare ( Indict Hillary!)
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absolutely! The Sassanaugh shipped hundreds of Irish to the new world as slaves, and they were treated worse than Africans! I want my reparations!


101 posted on 02/23/2019 6:46:02 AM PST by Segovia
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To: CarmichaelPatriot; dfwgator
I think we should include the Irish for this.

Not the Irish!


138 posted on 02/23/2019 10:39:08 PM PST by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2))
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To: CarmichaelPatriot
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.

Italians.

#MeToo

140 posted on 02/24/2019 8:01:53 AM PST by Lazamataz (McCain's passing ended up being + 2 net Republican Senators. Him, and Lindsey Graham.)
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To: CarmichaelPatriot

I’m with you on that. I’m born and raised a proud American. My people ALL came from Ireland. All Catholic.


157 posted on 03/12/2019 11:29:18 PM PDT by jmacusa ("The more numerous the laws the more corrupt the government''.)
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