White Reparations

Should Irish Americans receive reparations? Should black Americans receive reparations? Should ANYONE receive reparations for oppression that they themselves did not experience from over 150 years ago? The obvious common sense answer lies inside, but unfortunately due to racialist misinformation many of you might find SHOCKING!

Hopefully, this video will serve as an ultimate guide on reparations to finally put this topic to rest.

Cheers!

You can read the essay @ www.anthonygalli.com.

Hi, I’m Anthony Galli and my Great Great Great Grandfather was forced to leave his country...

He wasn’t forced by a physical pain on his back, but by a physical pain in his stomach.

The Potato Famine reduced Ireland’s population by 20% - 25% due to mortality and emigration.

What primarily caused this famine was that the British confiscated Irish property and made the Irish work the land for virtually nothing, i.e. what we might call in America, “slavery.” To highlight their cruelty just consider that during the potato famine, Ireland was a net-exporter of food. In other words, while the Irish were starving, their lords were taking food out of their mouths.

“It would be impossible to adequately describe the privations which they [the Irish labourer and his family] habitually and silently endure ... in many districts their only food is the potato, their only beverage water ... their cabins are seldom a protection against the weather ... a bed or a blanket is a rare luxury ... and nearly in all their pig and a manure heap constitute their only property.”

My Great Great Great Grandfather came to America by boat.

In 1847, 19% of the Irish emigrants died on their way to the U.S. or shortly after arriving. By comparison, the average mortality rate on British slave ships of the period was 9%.

After he arrived to Ellis Island, he was forced by his hunger to then work in a coal mine. It was work or watch he and his family starve to death. There was no choice!

Some argue that these early Irish Immigrants working conditions were worse than your average slave plantation. Jason Riley, Wall Street Journal editor wrote…

The peasants fleeing Ireland had a shorter life expectancy than slaves in the U.S., many of whom enjoyed healthier diets and better living quarters. Most slaves slept on mattresses, while most poor Irish peasants slept on piles of straw. The black scholar W.E.B. Du Bois wrote that freed slaves were poor by American standards, “but not as poor as the Irish peasants.”

Slavery didn’t end because of some “progressive awakening,” but because cheap laborers worked harder and cost less money than slave laborers.

This is Economics 101. If my Great Great Great Grandfather got sick or died then there were a 1000 other Irish Immigrants happy to take his job. This incentivized him to work harder and for the businessman to pay him just enough to keep him; whereas it’s in a slave master’s self-interest to take more of an interest in his slave’s well-being if he’s going to maximize his profit. In other words, a dead Irishman cost virtually nothing to replace whereas a slave could cost a lot.

In addition, there were Irish who were kidnapped by the British and forced aboard ships to serve as “indentured servants.” There are leftist “academic” articles “debunking the myth of Irish slavery” by comparing it to black American slavery and saying, “See! The Irish weren’t slaves because their servitude wasn’t hereditary! They largely entered into these servitude contracts by “choice!”

The worst part is these “academics” claim that the motivation to equate Irish peasant indentured servitude to black American slavery is a racist white supremacy attempt to rewrite history. If you can’t argue the facts then use ad hominem attacks! It amazes me how irrational people can be in the pursuit of a partisan agenda because the VERY SAME PEOPLE who say that there were no Irish slaves are the same people who say there are millions of people living in slavery today.

Isn’t it amazing how the definition of “slavery” can miraculously change based on the left’s agenda? In one context, it can ONLY refer to black American slaves (to imply anything else is racist!). In another context, it can refer to “forced work.” And then in another context, it can refer to virtually all wage

"All official and liberal science defends wage-slavery, whereas Marxism has declared relentless war on that slavery.” ― Vladimir Lenin

"A consistent anarchist must oppose private ownership of the means of production and the wage slavery which is a component of this system, as incompatible with the principle that labor must be freely undertaken and under the control of the producer. — Noam Chomsky

"Experience demonstrates that there may be wages of slavery only a little less galling and crushing in its effects than chattel slavery, and that this slavery of wages must go down with the other. — Fredrick Douglas

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