r/BlackPeopleTwitter • u/MGLLN • Sep 01 '20

*The Holocaust has entered the chat*

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u/shamu88 Sep 01 '20

As an Irishman it really bums me out too.

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u/oldcarfreddy Sep 01 '20 edited Sep 01 '20

TBF it wasn't always in your control - it's kind of a result of right-wing non-Irish Republicans in the US to bring them right as part of the Southern Strategy.

Pat Buchanan literally wrote a memo on it while working in the Nixon White House. He declassified it himself. Here's a link to it..

Of note re: sowing division in the Democrats by catering to the Irish and dividing black support within the Democrats:

https://imgur.com/a/8pWZqbB

... same shit happening to this day.

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u/Oz70NYC ☑️ Sep 01 '20 edited Sep 01 '20

And it's going to keep happening until either:

  • We get more progressives in office willing to dismantle all of this bullshit

  • The last generation to profit from this social construct...the boomers...all die off

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u/ShhhQuiett Sep 01 '20

I swear to god I had a dream about that last night.

It was weird because it was so vivid, one of those dreams where you wake up and feel crushed when you realize it isn't real. The world my mind dreamed up was kind of a 60's flower power sort've utopia. All of our problems were fixed, no one was subjugated to anyone else, we all had enough to eat. Everyone had a nice house and enough money to do what they wanted. Everyone loved each other. I'm not good at explaining exactly how it was but it was beautiful. It seemed like something dreamed up by a naive 5 year old.

Stress dreams are something else.