Posted on 04/04/2006 5:34:55 PM PDT by neverdem
I'll agree with you that Central and Southern Americans are not part of a distinct race.
As for the three races, I've got Indo-European/Caucasian, African and Asian/Pacific Islander. What about the indigenous peoples of the Americas or Australia?
Agreed.
"Human nature" would also have us copulating on street corners, defecating in the streets, and murdering our enemies with our bare hands.
So, you've been to NYC?
I've always read that the Aborigines were a category to themselves.
The Irish were not made instant recipients of US taxpayer dollars in the form of welfare, food stamps, resident college tuition, etc., etc. etc., ad infinitum. That's the big difference.
They only thing you got right was the sneaking over the border
Other then that .. the Irish and the Italians were treated like crap ... could be because they were both catholics
Eastern European Jews were treated like crap, too. Every immigrant group gets treated like crap.
that's true
500,000 manage to get together in one place at one time. That is pretty impressive.
The Irish were coming over waaaay before there was an Ellis Island. Bless em.
Immigrant groups get treated like crap for a couple generations. They form crime syndicates, get into sports and entertainment. Eventually,they get into business, send their kids to college, the grand kids kids move out to Long Island and complain about the next immigrant group coming in, which they treat like crap.
Tweed minions would help the newcomers find housing and work and, if there was an election in the offing, they would swiftly be naturalized as citizens in mass ceremonies by Tweed's judges, so they could vote for their benefactors.
He does have this part correct. Corrupt Democrat Party politicians used and abused immigrants 150 years ago and they still do it today. In that respect, nothing has changed.
He doesn't mention the part where Tweed's Tammany Hall under the Wood brothers, incited the so-called New York Draft Riots during the Civil War and drove poor Irish immigrants to vicious race rioting, beating, murdering and hanging any blacks they found on the streets because they were told that the "Black Republicans" and "Black Lincoln" were freeing the slaves to take jobs away from the Irish.
Nothing has changed in that regard either. The Democrat party has been dealing the race card from both sides of the deck for a 150 years.
In addition, when it became apparent that immigrants were displacing low-income Americans from their jobs, tough measures were taken to restrict legal immigration. Oddly enough, when a potential slave labor force wasn't available for exploitation, wages rose for native-born low-income workers. Funny how that works out.
LOL! You said it right.
Yup.
And it's absolutely true that the worst Americans I've known have been home-grown.
I'm still sitting around waiting for my turn to treat someone like crap...one day. We all have dreams.
And it's absolutely true that the worst Americans I've known have been home-grown.
I've found it to be a mixed bag. All groups have idiots and good people. Unfortunately, I'm an idiot magnet.
Scots-Irish (Orange) is just another way of saying "not Catholic". The discrimination faced by the "Green Irish" had nothing to do with Ireland and everything to do with Religion.
BTW. My mother (the daughter of a Green Irish immigrant) married my father (the son of an Orange Irish immigrant). Naturally, I fight with myself a lot --- and enjoy it. ;~))
Ya got a point there
Though my mother always taught us kids to treat others as we would want others to treat us
And if we didn't .. she'd smack us upside our heads
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