I’m of Irish decent and my step dad who raised me is Irish and became a citizen in the 1960s. I can tell you without doubt that Ireland has been deeply damaged by the English. The poverty level on that Island is or at least was near 3rd world level. Those people though don’t sit around blaming anybody. I’ve never known a harder working man than my step dad who lived his life coming from poverty with no complaint. My ancestry in the US starts around the civil war and the potato famine in the New York area. Whenever I was feeling defeated in life I would think of all that difficulty and hardship that made my existence possible and I am proud of those people and stand a little taller. Why doesn’t this same thing apply to American black people. They should be so proud of their past, not embarrassed. The people who were slaves were brave and strong people that made their lives possible.
I’m of Irish decent and my step dad who raised me is Irish and became a citizen in the 1960s. I can tell you without doubt that Ireland has been deeply damaged by the English. The poverty level on that Island is or at least was near 3rd world level. Those people though don’t sit around blaming anybody. I’ve never known a harder working man than my step dad who lived his life coming from poverty with no complaint. My ancestry in the US starts around the civil war and the potato famine in the New York area. Whenever I was feeling defeated in life I would think of all that difficulty and hardship that made my existence possible and I am proud of those people and stand a little taller. Why doesn’t this same thing apply to American black people. They should be so proud of their past, not embarrassed. The people who were slaves were brave and strong people that made their lives possible.