Thread by @blackrepublican

How “colorblind” politics is weaponized by some groups, against African-Americans

It disempowers the dissimilar narrative that shaped a dissimilar identity, whilst hypocritically empowering its own identity.

Don’t ever let anyone tell you that the Black experience in America was similar to that of all other immigrants, or that the Atlantic slave Trade was characterless and garden-variety.

It was not.

It was uniquely barbaric in all of world history.

It was the difference between a rocking chair and the electric chair.

“The Irish man is poor, but he is NOT a slave. He may be in rags, but he is NOT a slave. He is still MASTER of his body”

— Frederick Douglass

There’s all the difference in the world between Irish☘️indentured servitude and race-based chattel slavery “wherein an enslaved African (due to skin-color) is owned forever and whose black children and children's children are automatically enslaved” — FOREVER.

Do Not Let Them Equalize In Order To Minimize Your Dissimilar Experience.

Appearing the same, doesn't make it the same. A rocking chair, and the electric chair are both chairs.

But, they are not the same.

Debunking a Myth: The Irish Were Not Slaves, Too

NO, THE IRISH WERE NOT SLAVES TOO

Historian Liam Hogan has spent the last six years debunking the Irish slave myth.

psmag.com/social-justice…