Reply #53: Sorry -- you're mistaken [View All]

[LostinVA]

He DID mean what he implied, and he WAS wrong. The British treated the Irish like garbage, but when they acme over her, they were free mean and women, they were white, they spoke English, and they did have a crony system in place. An often abusive one, but one none the less. The discrimination against them was mainly a religious one. Were they treated like garbage over here? Yeah -0-for the first generation or so, just like most immigrants. BUT THEY WEREN'T SLAVES AND THEY DIDN'T ARRIVE WITH NOTHING. I'm half Irish (1857)and half Italian (1915). I know how immigrant were treated here.

And Africans weren't brought over here at gunpoint, they were brought over in chains, rotting in holds like carcasses, and sold into slavery, where they were raped, worked to death, and OWNED. They had nothing, and never could. Understand?

Please, go be an apologist for O'Reilly somewhere else.