Everyone is entitled to MY own opinion
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it? “I the Lord search the heart and test the mind, to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds.”
Our government officials have failed to lead.. Have failed to protect the citizenry and have failed to protect the Constitution and laws of this Nation.
Those who believe the November elections are going to change everything are living in a dream world. If this were the year 1982 or even 1994 … an election might make a difference but not this time. The election won’t stop the tyranny.
The Insurrectionists haven’t yet given a damn about laws, Law Enforcement officers or Elected Officials. They will continue to ignore the law up to and beyond the November elections.
The politicians have backed down and knelt down in hopes of appeasing the tyrannical mobs. Even the military has knelt down. The only thing left for them to do is to lay down their weapons and raise the white flag.
Congressional Representatives have spoken their support for these radical groups. The House Of Representatives Socialist, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, publically spoke her support and provided a “tweet” as well. The old hag, Nancy Pelosi and Charles Schumer and others on the Democratic side have knelt in support of these groups for the entire world to see. Pelosi ordered the removal of statues from the U.S. Capitol Building, again in an attempt to appease the mob rule and for political gain, knowing full well the supportive impact it would have on the mobs. Obama provided public support when he stated “Make them feel uncomfortable.” Obviously he couldn’t say “Continue to riot, assault, steal, burn and kill.”
Our government officials have failed to lead.. Have failed to protect the citizenry and have failed to protect the Constitution and laws of this Nation. The mobs now know how far the ‘government’ will let them go… How far the mobs can push and bend the laws of this country without repercussion. Hell, New York City turns criminals loose as soon as they are arrested.
When Trump is re-elected in November … and he will be re-elected … the mobs and the Left will explode like nothing before experienced. Lawlessness will reign. And it will be a defining moment for this country.
Participants on this Forum and others who continue to post messages saying things will be better in November … or this will all blow over … or the 15 minutes of fame for these groups is just about over … “Let them eat their own.” and “This is going to burn out soon. Just leave them be.”… … those participants are ‘trolls’ from ‘the other side’. They are attempting to persuade others to not take action. The written words are soothing and slick. But doesn’t Satan do the same?
The status quo in this country is no longer in existence. And yet … it appears a large percentage of the citizenry is oblivious or hoping for the best while doing nothing.
And here we are in the USA in 2020, with mobs ravaging business owners. Somewhere along the way in years past the voices of insurrection found and collected disenfranchised youths and whispered in their collective ears in a way that would make Mao smile.
In the 1960’s a man named Mao Tse Tung told young people in China that the nation had suffered because of the “rich landowners,” the “bourgeois capitalists.” Those words were used to put a target on the back of any who owned anything. Literally. If they were prospering, and you were poor, then it was unfair and action was required. He organized the youth into groups called the Red Guards to bring about social justice. They were empowered to take any action they wanted against the the adults around them. So they destroyed or stole their property and put them on public platforms to be beaten with sticks. They created a humiliating punishment called “the airplane” in which the tortured soul’s arms were pulled straight behind the body like swept jet wings, and then they took clippers and cut their hair off to the scalp with a viciousness that left the victim bloodied.
The wrath spread to any that the mob wanted to target. So not surprisingly, they also beat their own teachers and destroyed schools. Anyone of influence was viewed as a threat to the new social order and purged. Religious and cultural relics were destroyed. All of this was part of the plan to destroy the “Four Olds” – old ideas, old customs, old culture and old habits. Society collapsed from the chaos and pain, all carried out in the name of socio-economic purification. It had to be done. Mao smiled approvingly, cementing his power via these young agents of terror.
This Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution that began in 1966 ultimately resulted in an estimated 1.5 million deaths and banishment of 20 million more (to rural areas and poverty). In the end, the people of China were left powerless and the state grew into the all-powerful communist regime that we know today, the one that “disappears” journalists, doctors, professors, ethnic and religious minorities, and anyone else who exercises unapproved speech.
And the poor are still poor.
And here we are in the USA in 2020, with mobs ravaging business owners. Somewhere along the way in years past the voices of insurrection found and collected disenfranchised youths and whispered in their collective ears in a way that would make Mao smile. They heard the message of unfairness, of social injustice, and it resonated to them. Their anger was built to an explosive level. And then a sudden spark, the catalyst that the fathers of anarchy had been waiting for. This, they tell them, is the time. Go out and inflict pain to achieve justice. Tear down and destroy. Loot and burn. Make the privileged kneel and confess their sins. Do it with a righteous vengeance to any who have more than you or who dare to defy your power. Tear down symbols of the past. Enforce limits on speech. A new day has come. You, the youth of America, are the key. And so they have.
Ultimately, they will be discarded, just as they were in China. The puppet masters will have achieved their goal, the dismantling of the American Olds … individual liberty and the system of capitalism. The state will rule with supreme authority, freed of the limitations of the old outdated Constitution for the sake of New Ideals. The mob will have served its purpose.
And the poor will still be poor.
If therefore this theory is anywhere near the truth, this means that the riots and looting were far more than underclass individuals engaging in robbery; far more than Antifa and Black Lives Mater exploiting George Floyd’s death; it was far more than people who have held anger at being mistreated by cops lashing out.
Regulars here are by now all too well aware that the nationwide riots were not spontaneous nor were they organic. They were the coordinated work of forces who are allied with one another, as they communicated using modern technology to target certain areas on certain days and times. The sudden appearance of several pallets with many bricks in city downtowns, far from construction sites, was no coincidence.
Antifa, of course, was involved.
While I see what happened as a planned insurrection aimed at frightening law-abiding citizens, to vilify law enforcement (and to make it shirk its duties resulting thus in an increase in crime, to then place the blame on President Trump because somehow he’s responsible because everyone who isn’t on his side thinks he’s racist), and to strike at American capitalism, I came across a theory.
On the weekend of June 6, the weekend when President Trump held a Bible in front of St. John’s Church, a lot happened. Days earlier, leftist activists were all over social media calling for 1 million protesters (rioters, given “protesters” sounds neutral) to storm Washington, D.C.
President Trump was bunkered in the White House.
That same week, the mayor of D.C., who is a Democrat, stood down police and the National Guard. But while this can be expected, the Joint Chiefs of Staff issued odd statements, insinuating they were on the side of the looters and criminals rather than on the side of their boss. They made no references to the chain of command, they spoke about how they could not “…. abide divisiveness and hate…
Frankly, that week, and that weekend especially, as outraged as I was, I actually thought they were going to try to storm the White House. These are things that happen in Third World backwaters. We’ve all seen footage and photographs of the army of North Vietnam crashing through the gates of the presidential palace of South Vietnam in 1975. We all think it would never happen in America.
Now let’s think for a second. There were federal troops around the White House, but the President was bunkering. I have never served in the military but I know the U.S. military is hyper-professional and exceptionally well-equipped and trained. They, and other branches of government, have simulated and trained situations in which the White House is attacked. But that weekend, the troops that were around the White House by the time the photograph of President Trump with a Bible in his hand was taken were not federal troops.
These were troops affiliated with the Department of Justice.
Unless I’m wrong here, it was Attorney-General William Barr who made the decision to get federal troops out and to put DOJ troops/guards in their place, because supposedly the former were more loyal to the Joint Chiefs, but the DOJ troops would act in obedience to the Attorney-General.
If therefore this theory is anywhere near the truth, this means that the riots and looting were far more than underclass individuals engaging in robbery; far more than Antifa and Black Lives Mater exploiting George Floyd’s death; it was far more than people who have held anger at being mistreated by cops lashing out.
This was a potential attempt to get Trump out of office through the use of an invading, angry, rioting mob. It was a failed attempt to execute a coup.
As preposterous as this may sound and it could all be tinfoil hat nonsense, given the media and the left and the Democrats began to smear Trump from the day he announced his candidacy, moving to attack him during the campaign, Steele Dossier, Christopher Steele, Russiagate, then Ukrainegate, then even a BLM co-founder, Patrice Cullors, stating on tv days ago that her organization’s goal is to get Trump out of office….
I wouldn’t rule anything out for these people, because there’s no rule they wouldn’t break.
(Some say President Trump holding a Bible was a signal to his base – and whatever we think of President Trump, the man is NOT stupid; if this was indeed a coup, he knows very well that it was.)
The apostate morality of egalitarianism allows the Enemy to claim the moral high ground, yet nothing could be further from the truth. It is the most fundamental rule of decent governance that a tiny minority cannot make decisions for the majority. Give them one inch, and they will seize the mile. While we breathe, there can never be peace.
Bentonville is the lovely little town in Northwest Arkansas that I have spent nearly my entire life in. At the heart of Bentonville, in the center of our town square, there has rested a Confederate monument for the last 112 years, honoring the Southern soldiers who, carrying on the spirit of their Revolutionary fathers and grandfathers, gave their lives for the freedom of their fellow Southrons and all of their descendants. For over a century, not one man quarreled with our monument. That changed within the past few years, just as Bentonville has, just as our whilom nation has. Last autumn, our monument was attacked and seriously damaged by two egalitarian brownshirts, both of whom are members of the nouveau riche that have lately colonized our town. Now, without one single vote cast, without a single town hall, without a single word of notice, the rulers of Bentonville have unilaterally decided to remove our monument.
I embarked upon this investigation to answer one simple question: Who removed our Confederate monument? After weeks of obfuscation, unreturned phone calls, and warnings to not tread where there be dragons, I was able to unearth the truth. What I discovered was an extraordinarily vast conspiracy, three years in the making, planned and carried out by a culprit so powerful that the local newspaper refused to print a condensed version of this piece. While it was initially written for the citizens of Bentonville, its microcosmic message applies to all of us, in every defiled town across this country that once was ours.
Bentonville is much like any other small Southern town, save for one thing — it is the headquarters of Walmart. Historically, we have been much the better for it; Bentonville has long been a cocoon, into which the problems of the nation have rarely intruded. Yet, as all things must end, so too must this, for while the retailer undoubtedly built this town, it will also be our demise. Death has marched into our town under the guise of “Progress.” The removal of our Confederate monument is but one part of the larger process whereby our town has been leveled and transformed, remade in the image of the vampiric Carpetbaggers and Scalawags that wealth has ushered in. Bentonville is now unrecognizable as the town in which I came of age, the town that Sam Walton so cherished. Its new ruling class is comprised of outsiders with managerial pedigree, transient mercenaries who hold no stake in our town. Many of them do not even live here full-time, and yet they have taken it upon themselves to bring us benighted, deplorable yokels down into their enlightened cave.
The decision to remove our monument was announced as violent activists gathered at the statue to “protest” in support of the American Kristallnacht that we are now witnessing. Though at first glance, this timing appears to be yet another pathetic attempt to placate the insatiable “color revolution”, this decision was set in motion three years ago, when the chief of a certain corporate behemoth with deep roots in our town approached the United Daughters of the Confederacy, the owner of our monument. About one year ago, this same entity chose to sever those roots, using the shoestring Benton County Historical Society as a front to present a deal to the UDC. By its terms, the UDC had to officially initiate the removal, in order to make it appear as if it was their organic idea, a choice freely made. On the contrary, this deal was an offer that could not be refused; though the UDC was never explicitly threatened, the informal participation of one Benton County judge cast a long shadow. In the background of the proceedings was the knowledge that, were they to refuse this opportunity, that judge, a man who, quite hypocritically, campaigned on “trust, integrity, and transparency”, was available to issue an order that would have forced the UDC to remove it within twelve months, or else let it be removed by the County.
Of course, a carrot accompanied the stick. Through well-handled negotiations, the UDC was able to secure a new private park in which to honor our monument and Confederate dead, named for Arkansas Representative, Senator, Governor, and Confederate veteran James H. Berry. The UDC thus made the best of a bad situation, and I cannot fault them for the agreement; indeed, that is not the point. The point is that this was a blatant deception whereby our town has been forever altered, without any transparency or public deliberation to speak of. The conspirators handled this brilliantly; though they operated in the trappings of local government, thus establishing the implicit support of the State, our public officials had no legal duty to disclose anything to us. By using entirely private money, our elected representatives were allowed to follow the orders of their corporate handlers to circumvent the political process and subvert the will of the people. These officials lied to our faces for the entirety of the last three years, consistently assuring us that any potential removal or relocation of our monument would be put to a vote, thereby leading us to believe that we were still in control of the destiny of our town. Clear now, for all to see, is the truth that Bentonville is not a democracy — it is a kingdom.
The conspiracy succeeded with aplomb; the identity of the culprit is known only to a select few, all of whom are extremely reticent to discuss the matter. Even the supporters of our statue have been misled into believing that the UDC wanted this to happen; for anyone who cares to peek behind that curtain, the old adage holds true: follow the money. The UDC can hardly afford to dismantle and relocate a monument, nor can it afford to develop a new park; all of this will be paid for by the entity that set it in motion. Monument removal and relocation costs hundreds of thousands of dollars, a price compounded by the fact that ours has already been damaged and thus must be repaired. Who could care so much about erasing the memory of the Confederate States of America that they are willing to spend such exorbitant sums? The hostile class that has infiltrated and transformed the American company into the globalist corporation believes itself to be the arbiter of morality, while we provincials are merely their serfs, irredeemable peons who cannot be entrusted with directing our own lives. Why did we allow them to take our town from us?
As our riven nation burns, symbols of Southern heritage have been targeted as never before. Be not deceived — the Founding Fathers are next. When Old Dixie is finally driven down, Old Glory will wither away along with her. Where is the counterrevolution? Do we not realize that if we cannot stand for what might now seem to be the small things, we cannot stand for anything? Why do no sons and daughters of the South offer any resistance? A large part of the answer is that we stand alone. The South has not been represented in American government since the Egalitarian Revolution of the Sixties, and the Republican Party that claims to be our protector exists solely to harness the Southern spirit and redirect it straight into the ground. While the Left has metastasized for the last eight decades, the Right has been relentlessly purged from the ranks of the cocktail conservatives, hijacked and crushed.
Thus, in our present state of disorganization, when we dare to stand for ourselves, we know that we have no institutional support, and thus no insulation whatsoever. We are a stateless people, in the unique position of voting, every election cycle, for men who work tirelessly to accelerate our dispossession. We then tell ourselves that we do this because the alternative choice, which is indeed stark raving mad, advocates for our dispossession. So, in order to avoid the Enemy in its avowed form, we run into the arms of the very same Enemy in disguise. The Republican Party dies when we understand that it, along with the corporate “private” sector that it is beholden to, is a far greater threat to our people than the rabid Leftism that so repulses us. What of the faux originalists in the judiciary? In one week, the spuriously “conservative” Supreme Court upheld the unconstitutional Obama amnesty, refused to hear any Second amendment cases, refused to address California’s “Sanctuary State” law, and essentially enacted the Equal Rights Amendment by applying the already unconstitutional Civil Rights Act to homosexuals and transgenders, opening the floodgates to a deluge of new depredations. Just as our unrepresentative government is illegitimate, so too are the kritarchs in black who sit on the Court and credulously place the “constitutional” stamp upon whatever the ruling class wishes it to.
The apostate morality of egalitarianism allows the Enemy to claim the moral high ground, yet nothing could be further from the truth. It is the most fundamental rule of decent governance that a tiny minority cannot make decisions for the majority. Give them one inch, and they will seize the mile. While we breathe, there can never be peace. Our Confederate monument might have been relocated rather than destroyed, but the Enemy will never be satisfied until it is obliterated, and then until there is no record that it ever existed. These monuments are not stone, but rather material representations of our forefathers, and, by extension, ourselves. They are a solemn reproach, a constant height to which the Enemy can never ascend, a reminder of the glorious nation that the Enemy knows he could never have built. Thus, to profane our altars and debase our monuments is more than a means to psychologically humiliate us; erasing the memories of our accomplishments makes them feel better about having none of their own. They come for monuments now because they can, and now that they know that nothing stands in their path, it cannot be long now until they come for us. Witness the toppling of Christopher Columbus statues across the country, an unmistakable declaration of war with only one message — that we do not belong here, that America should not exist. What is our response?
Silence.
Revelations 3:10
Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.
This country was set up by visionaries who believed in education and self discipline. It just doesn’t work when degraded by spoiled participation trophy children following socialist fantasies.
Diversity is not your friend. We have too many illegal aliens here. We have too many “refugees” here. We have too many immigrants who refuse to assimilate here. We have allowed the college/university elites to preach left wing ideals that are the antithesis to our Constitution. We have allowed the leftists to have an overwhelming voice. We have abandoned our culture and heritage for promised utopia of pixie dust and unicorn farts.
This country was set up by visionaries who believed in education and self discipline. It just doesn’t work when degraded by spoiled participation trophy children following socialist fantasies.
If things continue along this path it will be a hell of a decade or two.
If you are in a big city, get out.
If you are in a lot of debt, get out.
If you find yourself in a large crowd, get out.
If you are in a career that is in decline, get out.
If you have your kids in bad public schools, get out.
Get ready.
If we’re wrong, you’ll be fine. If we’re right, you’ll be in a place to help yourself and others.
“The key to success is action and the essential in action is perseverance.” –Sun Yat Sen
When we establish SPECIAL standards to “protect” specific people based on skin color, gender, religion, etc… we enforce the racism, not address it.
Walmart has jumped on the bandwagon to accommodate the demands of Black Lives Matter. They are not, however, alone in the corporate rush toward political correctness. There are many others in the business world who are rushing to change product names, logos and “reeducate” their employees with enhanced “sensitivity training”.
The content and language will all be very carefully crafted to appear neutral, claim how we ALL must treat each other equally. But just like the civilian world, media, etc, there will be an undertone that it is the white males who are naturally the oppressors/racists.
It will be aimed at them and charged as their duty to capitulate. They will be quietly made to be understand that they are privileged and can’t Possibly understand how those of other colors feel.
It’s divisive and, in its own way, just as racist.
When we teach things like this, we are propagating the division.
When we establish SPECIAL standards to “protect” specific people based on skin color, gender, religion, etc… we enforce the racism, not address it.
But can we ever have a truly honest, open, blunt discussion on how to fix things?
I doubt it. Every time it is attempted it seems to instantly fall into blaming whites. If that can’t be avoided, no worthwhile discussion is to be had. Conversely, if blacks can’t find a way to accept responsibility for their own actions, take some action to improve their lives without handouts and special incentives, nothing will change.
We are a nation where All men are created equal, what we do with that is up to us. If we wallow in a preconceived victim mentality we will squander it. If we continue to work to better ourselves…
white people confronted with their complicity in racism cannot accept it and instead engage in a number of ‘defensive moves’ to avoid the accusation, including disagreeing, staying silent, becoming emotional, and going away.
“How do you navigate conversations with people when the default assumption is that you’re a racist? What do you do when calmly and sincerely stating that you are not a racist is taken as evidence of your guilt of racism?
First, understand what the terms mean, where they come from, and who are the proponents. ‘Anti-racism’ means being against racism, except for one important detail. What anti-racist advocates mean when they use the word ‘racism’ isn’t the same as what most people mean.
‘Anti-racism’ comes directly from the academic scholarship of Critical Race Theory. In Critical Race Theory, ‘racism’ means ‘systemic racism’, which is said to be ‘the ordinary state of affairs’ in the United States. Systemic racism is believed to be the explanation for every disparity in outcomes in which some minority groups, especially blacks, have worse outcomes than whites (or Jews and Asians). The academic definition of ‘anti-racism’ includes ‘working to identify internalized racial dominance if you are White’ or a ‘Person of Color’, ‘joining organizations working for racial justice’, and ‘seeking out continuing education’ in the theory of ‘anti-racism’. It is described as a ‘lifelong commitment to an ongoing process’ that includes social activism to end what it calls ‘racism’, which has an equally peculiar definition.
Robin DiAngelo, a New York Times bestselling scholar of the ‘critical whiteness’ aspect of Critical Race Theory, sees racism in everything. She explains what she calls ‘racism’ this way: ‘the question is not “did racism take place?” but instead “how did racism manifest in this situation?”’ In other words, all situations contain racism, and it is up to the anti-racist activist to uncover it. To do anything else is described as — you guessed it — being a ‘racist’ by upholding ‘racism’.
Second, understand how these ideas are used unfairly against you. The ‘anti-racism’ program offered by Critical Race Theory offers no neutrality. Everyone is either an ‘anti-racist’ or they are ‘racists’ by default. The lines of literature in which DiAngelo situates her claims clearly state that there is no such thing as being not-racist, and she repeatedly asserts that neutrality on this issue means favoring ‘racism’. Not even progressives are safe. DiAngelo writes, ‘white progressives cause the most daily damage to people of color. I define a white progressive as any white person who thinks he or she is not racist, or is less racist.’
This false dichotomy is central to the ‘anti-racism’ narrative currently being forwarded, especially by other New York Times bestselling authors like Ijeoma Oluo, Layla F. Saad, and Ibram X. Kendi, whose books are currently dominating the bestseller lists. Put bluntly, the only option these activist-scholars offer is to join their movement or accept being a ‘racist’.
Anti-racism is defended further with another hot buzzword: ‘white fragility’. DiAngelo created this idea and describes it as a state of ‘racial stress’ that white people find intolerable when confronted with the fact of their ‘complicity’ in ‘racism’ and ‘white supremacy’. She claims white complicity is an automatic result of receiving the benefits of white privilege, which all white people necessarily have. She, being a white woman, then names her personal goal not as overcoming racism, which would be impossible (she writes that it is not possible to construct a ‘positive white identity’), but as progressively becoming ‘less white’.
DiAngelo further asserts that white people confronted with their complicity in racism cannot accept it and instead engage in a number of ‘defensive moves’ to avoid the accusation, including disagreeing, staying silent, becoming emotional, and going away. These ‘maneuvers’ expose their white fragility. ‘White fragility’ is therefore a charge that cannot be denied and thus separates all white people into two categories: racists (who admit it) and racists (who are too fragile) to admit it.
Third, agree that racism is horrific. This is obvious, so it’s easy.
Fourth, calmly expose and explain the bait-and-switch definitions. An identical argument could be made about literally any position: there are two types of people — Trump supporters who admit it and Trump supporters who are too afraid to admit it; those who claim they don’t like pancakes and those who are too deceitful to tell the truth that pancakes are awful; witches who confess and witches who are too in league with the devil to admit it. If white fragility is a real phenomenon, it needs a better litmus test than this.”
African slaves were very expensive during the late 1600s (50 Sterling). Irish slaves came cheap (no more than 5 Sterling). If a planter whipped or branded or beat an Irish slave to death, it was never a crime. A death was a monetary setback, but far cheaper than killing a more expensive African. The English masters quickly began breeding the Irish women for both their own personal pleasure and for greater profit.
~A great history lesson..DID YOU KNOW…this is the information erased from our kids history books! Definitely worth your time to read~
The Irish slave trade began when 30,000 Irish prisoners were sold as slaves to the New World. The King James I Proclamation of 1625 required Irish political prisoners be sent overseas and sold to English settlers in the West Indies. By the mid 1600s, the Irish were the main slaves sold to Antigua and Montserrat. At that time, 70% of the total population of Montserrat were Irish slaves.
Ireland quickly became the biggest source of human livestock for English merchants. The majority of the early slaves to the New World were actually white.
From 1641 to 1652, over 500,000 Irish were killed by the English and another 300,000 were sold as slaves. Ireland’s population fell from about 1,500,000 to 600,000 in one single decade. Families were ripped apart as the British did not allow Irish dads to take their wives and children with them across the Atlantic. This led to a helpless population of homeless women and children. Britain’s solution was to auction them off as well.
During the 1650s, over 100,000 Irish children between the ages of 10 and 14 were taken from their parents and sold as slaves in the West Indies, Virginia and New England. In this decade, 52,000 Irish (mostly women and children) were sold to Barbados and Virginia. Another 30,000 Irish men and women were also transported and sold to the highest bidder. In 1656, Cromwell ordered that 2000 Irish children be taken to Jamaica and sold as slaves to English settlers.
Many people today will avoid calling the Irish slaves what they truly were: Slaves. They’ll come up with terms like “Indentured Servants” to describe what occurred to the Irish. However, in most cases from the 17th and 18th centuries, Irish slaves were nothing more than human cattle.
As an example, the African slave trade was just beginning during this same period. It is well recorded that African slaves, not tainted with the stain of the hated Catholic theology and more expensive to purchase, were often treated far better than their Irish counterparts.
African slaves were very expensive during the late 1600s (50 Sterling). Irish slaves came cheap (no more than 5 Sterling). If a planter whipped or branded or beat an Irish slave to death, it was never a crime. A death was a monetary setback, but far cheaper than killing a more expensive African. The English masters quickly began breeding the Irish women for both their own personal pleasure and for greater profit.
Children of slaves were themselves slaves, which increased the size of the master’s free workforce. Even if an Irish woman somehow obtained her freedom, her kids would remain slaves of her master. Thus, Irish moms, even with this new found emancipation, would seldom abandon their kids and would remain in servitude.
In time, the English thought of a better way to use these women (in many cases, girls as young as 12) to increase their market share: The settlers began to breed Irish women and girls with African men to produce slaves with a distinct complexion. These new “mulatto” slaves brought a higher price than Irish livestock and, likewise, enabled the settlers to save money rather than purchase new African slaves. This practice of interbreeding Irish females with African men went on for several decades and was so widespread that, in 1681, legislation was passed “forbidding the practice of mating Irish slave women to African slave men for the purpose of producing slaves for sale.” In short, it was stopped only because it interfered with the profits of a large slave transport company.
England continued to ship tens of thousands of Irish slaves for more than a century. Records state that, after the 1798 Irish Rebellion, thousands of Irish slaves were sold to both America and Australia. There were horrible abuses of both African and Irish captives. One British ship even dumped 1,302 slaves into the Atlantic Ocean so that the crew would have plenty of food to eat.
There is little question that the Irish experienced the horrors of slavery as much (if not more in the 17th Century) as the Africans did. There is, also, very little question that those brown, tanned faces you witness in your travels to the West Indies are very likely a combination of African and Irish ancestry.
In 1839, Britain finally decided on its own to end its participation in Satan’s highway to hell and stopped transporting slaves. While their decision did not stop pirates from doing what they desired, the new law slowly concluded THIS chapter of nightmarish Irish misery.
But, if anyone, black or white, believes that slavery was only an African experience, then they’ve got it completely wrong.
Irish slavery is a subject worth remembering, not erasing from our memories.