Comparing The Irish To African American Slaves Is Prejudiced
The Irish-as-slaves meme promotes a racist agenda.http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/...b0f633072b364dA meme circulating widely equates the enslavement of millions of Africans in the Americas over many centuries with the experience of Irish immigrant laborers, stating that the Irish too were enslaved. This supposed connection is intended to suggest that many other groups suffered in the past, and therefore the African American experience of slavery, racism and marginalization has no particular claim to our empathy.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/17/u...myth.html?_r=0