re: Some Truths about SLAVERY

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Irish slave trade: 1625 30,000 political prisoners sold as slaves to Brits in the West Indies. Whites made up of most of the early slave trade here. From 1641-1652 to 500,000 Irish were killed by the English and 300,000 sold as slaves. Irelands population fell from 1.6 million to 600,000 in a decade. Negro slaves were worth more than Irish, and thus treated better.

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I'm 1/3 Irish. Where's my entitlements? I DEMAND SOCIAL JUSTICE FOR MY PEOPLE!

:realizesI'm1/3English:

Well frick. I'll just claim my Italian 1/3.




Don't forget the Jews being enslaved to Egyptians. Most every ethnic group has been in slavery at some point in history. Humans deserve the blame...we shouldn't feel guilty though because we had nothing to do with it. We should feel proud that, as a civilized society, we reject slavery and our closest ancestors abolished it.