I watched all 4 videos....the dude really breaks it down.
His number 1 reasoning that got me is if there were irish slaves...why weren't there any accounts written about them like other slaves?
Irish Chattel Slaves - The Myth, by Kofi Khepera
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His number 1 reasoning that got me is if there were irish slaves...why weren't there any accounts written about them like other slaves?
I've had to dead convos with white dudes trying to do the same shyt. Not having it.
You mean the "actual slaves".
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Politics is an EXCHANGE!!!
‘Irish slaves’: Historian destroys racist myth right wingers love to share on Facebook
White supremacists have been promoting the myth that the first slaves brought to the Americas were Irish, not African — but a historian says there’s simply no evidence to back their racist claims.
Liam Hogan, a research librarian at the Limerick City Library, set about debunking the myth after spotting a widely shared Global Research article in 2013 and realized its potential for misinformation, reported Hatewatch.
“It was quite clear to me then that many would never engage with the history of the transatlantic slave trade when they had this false equivalence to fall back on,” Hogan told the website. “I think that’s what convinced me that I needed to put the record straight.”
The myth essentially equates indentured or penal servitude with racialized perpetual hereditary chattel slavery, Hogan said. cont....
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/07/irish-slaves-historian-destroys-racist-myth-conservatives-love-share-on-facebook/
White supremacists have been promoting the myth that the first slaves brought to the Americas were Irish, not African — but a historian says there’s simply no evidence to back their racist claims.
Liam Hogan, a research librarian at the Limerick City Library, set about debunking the myth after spotting a widely shared Global Research article in 2013 and realized its potential for misinformation, reported Hatewatch.
“It was quite clear to me then that many would never engage with the history of the transatlantic slave trade when they had this false equivalence to fall back on,” Hogan told the website. “I think that’s what convinced me that I needed to put the record straight.”
The myth essentially equates indentured or penal servitude with racialized perpetual hereditary chattel slavery, Hogan said. cont....
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/07/irish-slaves-historian-destroys-racist-myth-conservatives-love-share-on-facebook/
Exactly.
To come back at the potatoes crisis (An Gorta Mór) in Ireland from 1845-1850. Here is the backstory, which you tried to compare to the dehumanization of the African.
"Great Famine, also called Irish Potato Famine, Great Irish Famine, or Famine of 1845–49, famine that occurred in Ireland in 1845–49 when the potato crop failed in successive years. The crop failures were caused by late blight, a disease that destroys both the leaves and the edible roots, or tubers, of the potato plant. The causative agent of late blight is the water mold Phytophthora infestans. The Irish famine was the worst to occur in Europe in the 19th century."
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"About one million people died from starvation or from typhus and other famine-related diseases. The number of Irish who emigrated during the famine may have reached two million. Between 1841 and 1850, 49 percent of the total immigrants to the United States were Irish. Ireland’s population continued to decline in the following decades because of overseas emigration and lower birth rates. By the time Ireland achieved independence in 1921, its population was barely half of what it had been in the early 1840s."
Great Famine | Definition, History, Causes, & Facts
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