Debunking the lie

And this is why people like Jahrman get called sellouts.

Man spotted walking around University of Oklahoma campus in blackface, days after racist video surfaces

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Notice the t-shirt. Tommy Sotomayor.

Man spotted walking around University of Oklahoma campus in blackface, days after racist video surfaces
 
Some of us need to stop the lies.



The intern says it all.

Redskins Rookie Ryan Anderson Surprises Mom



These stories are prevalent in the black community. Moms working 2-3 jobs for her kids,. But the regressive black conservatives who have not evolved out of their slave mentality seem unable to bring this up.

Baton Rouge rapper fredobang bought his mom a house



Not an urban truth teller! They think women are bitches and hos. Besides, their mothers are no good.

I stopped listening after Jeraldo, but he was spot on. The black community has a serious issue with fatherless households and the victim mentality has to stop. Good video.


Not true.
 
Some of us need to stop the lies.



The intern says it all.

Redskins Rookie Ryan Anderson Surprises Mom



These stories are prevalent in the black community. Moms working 2-3 jobs for her kids,. But the regressive black conservatives who have not evolved out of their slave mentality seem unable to bring this up.

Baton Rouge rapper fredobang bought his mom a house



Not an urban truth teller! They think women are bitches and hos. Besides, their mothers are no good.

I stopped listening after Jeraldo, but he was spot on. The black community has a serious issue with fatherless households and the victim mentality has to stop. Good video.


Not true.


100% true. 70% = single parent households. Not good.
 
Residents Of America's Food Stamp Capital Continue To Vote Against Their Self-Interests



99 percent white.
 
Some of us need to stop the lies.



The intern says it all.

Redskins Rookie Ryan Anderson Surprises Mom



These stories are prevalent in the black community. Moms working 2-3 jobs for her kids,. But the regressive black conservatives who have not evolved out of their slave mentality seem unable to bring this up.

Baton Rouge rapper fredobang bought his mom a house



Not an urban truth teller! They think women are bitches and hos. Besides, their mothers are no good.

I stopped listening after Jeraldo, but he was spot on. The black community has a serious issue with fatherless households and the victim mentality has to stop. Good video.


Not true.


100% true. 70% = single parent households. Not good.


I'm black, you aren't. I know, you do not.

It is not true.
 
Some of us need to stop the lies.



The intern says it all.

Redskins Rookie Ryan Anderson Surprises Mom



These stories are prevalent in the black community. Moms working 2-3 jobs for her kids,. But the regressive black conservatives who have not evolved out of their slave mentality seem unable to bring this up.

Baton Rouge rapper fredobang bought his mom a house



Not an urban truth teller! They think women are bitches and hos. Besides, their mothers are no good.

I stopped listening after Jeraldo, but he was spot on. The black community has a serious issue with fatherless households and the victim mentality has to stop. Good video.


Not true.


100% true. 70% = single parent households. Not good.


I'm black, you aren't. I know, you do not.

It is not true.


Do you like sports?
 
When It Comes To Illegal Drug Use, White America Does The Crime, Black America Gets The Time

White Americans are more likely than black Americans to have used most kinds of illegal drugs, including cocaine, marijuana and LSD. Yet blacks are far more likely to go to prison for drug offenses.

This discrepancy forms the backdrop of a new legislative proposal in California, which aims to reduce the disproportionate incarceration of black people in the state. Supporters of the bill, SB 649, point to some striking national data.

Nearly 20 percent of whites have used cocaine, compared with 10 percent of blacks and Latinos, according to a 2011 survey from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration — the most recent data available.

Higher percentages of whites have also tried hallucinogens, marijuana, pain relievers like OxyContin, and stimulants like methamphetamine, according to the survey. Crack is more popular among blacks than whites, but not by much.

Still, blacks are arrested for drug possession more than three times as often as whites, according to a 2009 report from the advocacy group Human Rights Watch.

Of the 225,242 people who were serving time in state prisons for drug offenses in 2011, blacks made up 45 percent and whites comprised just 30 percent, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics.

When It Comes To Illegal Drug Use, White America Does The Crime, Black America Gets The Time | HuffPost
 
Sanitizing Our Settler-Colonial Past With ‘Nation of Immigrants’ Narratives

“The United States is a nation of immigrants.” It’s a phrase we hear constantly – often said with the best of intentions and, in today’s increasingly cruel environment, meant as a strong rebuke of Donald Trump and his white nationalist administration.

The metaphor of the “melting pot” serves a similar purpose: the United States is strong and noble because we are a place that takes people in from across the globe, an inclusive, welcoming, compassionate in-gathering of humanity - e pluribus unum - "out of many, one." It’s a romantic idea – and often evoked as a counter to xenophobic, anti-immigrant rhetoric.

But how historically accurate are these phrases and the national narratives they entrench? And what if, instead of combating white nationalism, they subtly promote it?

On this episode, we dissect the notion that the United States is simply a rainbow collection of disparate groups coming together and breakdown how, in many ways, this absolves us of our past and present as a violent, white-settler colony.

Citations Needed: Episode 62: Sanitizing Our Settler-Colonial Past With ‘Nation of Immigrants’ Narratives
 
Sanitizing Our Settler-Colonial Past With ‘Nation of Immigrants’ Narratives

“The United States is a nation of immigrants.” It’s a phrase we hear constantly – often said with the best of intentions and, in today’s increasingly cruel environment, meant as a strong rebuke of Donald Trump and his white nationalist administration.

The metaphor of the “melting pot” serves a similar purpose: the United States is strong and noble because we are a place that takes people in from across the globe, an inclusive, welcoming, compassionate in-gathering of humanity - e pluribus unum - "out of many, one." It’s a romantic idea – and often evoked as a counter to xenophobic, anti-immigrant rhetoric.

But how historically accurate are these phrases and the national narratives they entrench? And what if, instead of combating white nationalism, they subtly promote it?

On this episode, we dissect the notion that the United States is simply a rainbow collection of disparate groups coming together and breakdown how, in many ways, this absolves us of our past and present as a violent, white-settler colony.

Citations Needed: Episode 62: Sanitizing Our Settler-Colonial Past With ‘Nation of Immigrants’ Narratives
Where do you dig up these moronic articles? Is there a hate whitey hub im unaware of?
 
Sanitizing Our Settler-Colonial Past With ‘Nation of Immigrants’ Narratives

“The United States is a nation of immigrants.” It’s a phrase we hear constantly – often said with the best of intentions and, in today’s increasingly cruel environment, meant as a strong rebuke of Donald Trump and his white nationalist administration.

The metaphor of the “melting pot” serves a similar purpose: the United States is strong and noble because we are a place that takes people in from across the globe, an inclusive, welcoming, compassionate in-gathering of humanity - e pluribus unum - "out of many, one." It’s a romantic idea – and often evoked as a counter to xenophobic, anti-immigrant rhetoric.

But how historically accurate are these phrases and the national narratives they entrench? And what if, instead of combating white nationalism, they subtly promote it?

On this episode, we dissect the notion that the United States is simply a rainbow collection of disparate groups coming together and breakdown how, in many ways, this absolves us of our past and present as a violent, white-settler colony.

Citations Needed: Episode 62: Sanitizing Our Settler-Colonial Past With ‘Nation of Immigrants’ Narratives
Where do you dig up these moronic articles? Is there a hate whitey hub im unaware of?

It's a podcast that you haven't listened to.

Stop crying about hate whitey.

Whitey wants to brag about his greatness, whitey will also accept his mistakes.
 
Sanitizing Our Settler-Colonial Past With ‘Nation of Immigrants’ Narratives

“The United States is a nation of immigrants.” It’s a phrase we hear constantly – often said with the best of intentions and, in today’s increasingly cruel environment, meant as a strong rebuke of Donald Trump and his white nationalist administration.

The metaphor of the “melting pot” serves a similar purpose: the United States is strong and noble because we are a place that takes people in from across the globe, an inclusive, welcoming, compassionate in-gathering of humanity - e pluribus unum - "out of many, one." It’s a romantic idea – and often evoked as a counter to xenophobic, anti-immigrant rhetoric.

But how historically accurate are these phrases and the national narratives they entrench? And what if, instead of combating white nationalism, they subtly promote it?

On this episode, we dissect the notion that the United States is simply a rainbow collection of disparate groups coming together and breakdown how, in many ways, this absolves us of our past and present as a violent, white-settler colony.

Citations Needed: Episode 62: Sanitizing Our Settler-Colonial Past With ‘Nation of Immigrants’ Narratives
Where do you dig up these moronic articles? Is there a hate whitey hub im unaware of?

It's a podcast that you haven't listened to.

Stop crying about hate whitey.

Whitey wants to brag about his greatness, whitey will also accept his mistakes.
Who cares about shit that people did before we were born? What do they have to do with white people in 2019? We awesome today.
 
Sanitizing Our Settler-Colonial Past With ‘Nation of Immigrants’ Narratives

“The United States is a nation of immigrants.” It’s a phrase we hear constantly – often said with the best of intentions and, in today’s increasingly cruel environment, meant as a strong rebuke of Donald Trump and his white nationalist administration.

The metaphor of the “melting pot” serves a similar purpose: the United States is strong and noble because we are a place that takes people in from across the globe, an inclusive, welcoming, compassionate in-gathering of humanity - e pluribus unum - "out of many, one." It’s a romantic idea – and often evoked as a counter to xenophobic, anti-immigrant rhetoric.

But how historically accurate are these phrases and the national narratives they entrench? And what if, instead of combating white nationalism, they subtly promote it?

On this episode, we dissect the notion that the United States is simply a rainbow collection of disparate groups coming together and breakdown how, in many ways, this absolves us of our past and present as a violent, white-settler colony.

Citations Needed: Episode 62: Sanitizing Our Settler-Colonial Past With ‘Nation of Immigrants’ Narratives
Where do you dig up these moronic articles? Is there a hate whitey hub im unaware of?

It's a podcast that you haven't listened to.

Stop crying about hate whitey.

Whitey wants to brag about his greatness, whitey will also accept his mistakes.
Who cares about shit that people did before we were born? What do they have to do with white people in 2019? We awesome today.

The constitution was mad before we were born. Whites won independence from Britain before we we born.

I'm sure you care about these things now. So if Whitey wants to brag about his greatness, whitey will also accept his mistakes.
 
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Propaganda is cheap to produce on the web. And a purposeful lie in an age of "viral content" not only can race around the world in a day but resurface time and time again with surprising resiliency.

Such is the case with the myth of "Irish slaves," an ahistorical reimagining of real events weaponized by racists and conspiracy theorists before the Web and now reaching vast new audiences online.

In short, the "Irish slaves" myth argues that the first slaves brought to the Americas were Irish, that they were white, and that this fact, covered up by liberal historians, undermines the legacy of the African slave trade and proves that modern theories of racial inferiority are true.

Predictably, this revisionism has attracted Neo-Nazis, White Nationalists, Neo-Confederates, and even Holocaust deniers, while racist trolls have deployed the myth to attack the Black Lives Matter movement. More worrisome, though, is its widespread adoption by principally American Internet users as if it were a point of "Irish pride."

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Irish scholar Liam Hogan has been tracking and debunking this reincarnated meme since he first saw it in 2013. Last year, Hogan published an impressive five-part series exposing the myth and provided a detailed historical analysis of the origins and evolution of the meme.

What’s your academic background particularly as it applies to the study of systems of slavery?

I’m a research librarian at the Limerick City Library and an independent scholar. I am particularly interested in the complex historical relationship between Ireland and the Transatlantic Slave Trade. While researching this, I noticed that there existed many common misconceptions about what is termed “Irish slavery,” which is applied in various ways to the Irish experience in the Anglo-Caribbean, Colonial America and the United States. I’ve since tried to contextualize this important part of Irish diasporic history for the general public while debunking some of the more egregious pieces of disinformation that are currently en vogue. I also track white nationalist groups and others who have purposefully spread “white slavery” or “Irish slavery” propaganda online since at least 1998.

And let’s clear the air: Are you Irish?

Yes. I’m from Youghalarra, which is a village near Lough Derg in Co. Tipperary.

Briefly stated, what are the historical claims behind the “Irish slaves” meme?

It broadly claims that indentured servitude and penal servitude can be equated with racialized perpetual hereditary chattel slavery. It proclaims that an “Irish Slave Trade” was initiated in 1612 and not abolished until 1839, and that this concurrent transatlantic slave trade of “white slaves” has been covered up by “liberal," “cultural Marxist” or “politically correct” historians.

The various memes make many claims including (but not limited to) the following; that “Irish slaves” were treated far worse than black slaves; that there were more “Irish slaves” than black slaves; that “Irish slaves” were worth less than black slaves, that enslaved Irish women were forced to breed with enslaved African men, and that the Irish were slaves for much longer than black slaves.

This is then invariably followed up by overtly racist statements, e.g. “yet, when is the last time you heard an Irishman bitching and moaning about how the world owes them a living?” The “Irish slaves” meme is a subset of the “white slavery” contemporary discourse which emphasizes class over race and is fueled by a potent cocktail of bad history, false equivalence, conspiracy theories, and reductionist fallacies.

There was almost no situation where the meme was not used to derail discussions about the legacy of slavery or ongoing anti-black racism. Starting with Ferguson and with almost every subsequent police killing of an unarmed black person from late 2014 through 2015, the meme was used to mock and denigrate the Black Lives Matter movement. It is in a sense the “historical” version of the disingenuous All Lives Matter response to demands for justice and truth telling. I have seen it used to derail conversations about Sandra Bland, the McKinney pool party incident, the Spring Valley High incident and so on. I have collected hundreds of examples of it on Twitter (here) but it is a more common on Facebook where it continues to incubate. Some of these racist memes on Facebook have garnered over 200,000 shares so far and one in particular was shared nearly 100,000 times in just over a week.

How the Myth of the "Irish slaves" Became a Favorite Meme of Racists Online

Debunking the imagery of the “Irish slaves” meme – Liam Hogan – Medium

Racism has distorted reality for many whites. Teachings about history, the world, the pursuits of thought, expressions of culture, and personal relationships have for most whites been both limited and false.
 
When It Comes To Illegal Drug Use, White America Does The Crime, Black America Gets The Time

White Americans are more likely than black Americans to have used most kinds of illegal drugs, including cocaine, marijuana and LSD. Yet blacks are far more likely to go to prison for drug offenses.

This discrepancy forms the backdrop of a new legislative proposal in California, which aims to reduce the disproportionate incarceration of black people in the state. Supporters of the bill, SB 649, point to some striking national data.

Nearly 20 percent of whites have used cocaine, compared with 10 percent of blacks and Latinos, according to a 2011 survey from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration — the most recent data available.

Higher percentages of whites have also tried hallucinogens, marijuana, pain relievers like OxyContin, and stimulants like methamphetamine, according to the survey. Crack is more popular among blacks than whites, but not by much.

Still, blacks are arrested for drug possession more than three times as often as whites, according to a 2009 report from the advocacy group Human Rights Watch.

Of the 225,242 people who were serving time in state prisons for drug offenses in 2011, blacks made up 45 percent and whites comprised just 30 percent, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics.

When It Comes To Illegal Drug Use, White America Does The Crime, Black America Gets The Time | HuffPost
Are blacks just getting caught more? Perhaps they are committing more crimes to get drugs or because of drugs? Are the perps mulitple offenders? There are many variables but you choose to see just black and white, literally.
 
Sanitizing Our Settler-Colonial Past With ‘Nation of Immigrants’ Narratives

“The United States is a nation of immigrants.” It’s a phrase we hear constantly – often said with the best of intentions and, in today’s increasingly cruel environment, meant as a strong rebuke of Donald Trump and his white nationalist administration.

The metaphor of the “melting pot” serves a similar purpose: the United States is strong and noble because we are a place that takes people in from across the globe, an inclusive, welcoming, compassionate in-gathering of humanity - e pluribus unum - "out of many, one." It’s a romantic idea – and often evoked as a counter to xenophobic, anti-immigrant rhetoric.

But how historically accurate are these phrases and the national narratives they entrench? And what if, instead of combating white nationalism, they subtly promote it?

On this episode, we dissect the notion that the United States is simply a rainbow collection of disparate groups coming together and breakdown how, in many ways, this absolves us of our past and present as a violent, white-settler colony.

Citations Needed: Episode 62: Sanitizing Our Settler-Colonial Past With ‘Nation of Immigrants’ Narratives
Where do you dig up these moronic articles? Is there a hate whitey hub im unaware of?

It's a podcast that you haven't listened to.

Stop crying about hate whitey.

Whitey wants to brag about his greatness, whitey will also accept his mistakes.
Who cares about shit that people did before we were born? What do they have to do with white people in 2019? We awesome today.
True, I guess whites today are supposed to accept and take responsibility for the mistakes of whites in the past.
 
Debunking the imagery of the “Irish slaves” meme

Liam Hogan

Those that promote the myth of Irish perpetual hereditary chattel slavery in Colonial America use a variety of images entirely unrelated to indentured servitude to accompany their anti-history. I examined a selection of them.

The “Irish slaves” meme has been embraced by racists and white nationalists. The meme below was shared by a Tea Party Leader in 2013. It accompanied her advice to African Americans to “move on” from slavery.

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But this photograph is not from the U.S., nor does it depict “White Irish slaves.”

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Historian Matthew C. Reilly has done extensive research on the “poor white” community of Barbados. This photo was taken in Barbados in 1908, and as Reilly has noted none of those pictured have Irish surnames and these families appear to have both African and European ancestry. Reilly writes

“Photograph locally known as “The ‘Redlegs’ of Barbados”. Pictured are fishermen residents of Bath in the parish of St. John taken in 1908. Photo courtesy of Mr. Richard Goddard.”“The photograph is widely known amongst island history buffs as well as those interested in family genealogy. On several occasions I encountered individuals who had traced their ancestry to one of the impoverished men pictured in the 1908 portrait of the “Redleg” fishermen. Until my conversation with Fred Watson (Figure 7.2), however, I had never heard it referred to as a “family photograph”. Represented are members of the Watson, Goddard, King, and Haynes families, surnames popular amongst the “Redleg” population for several generations and still present in St. John today. Fred was able to identify several of his father’s and mother’s brothers that were pictured in the photograph including his mother’s brother Simeon Goddard found on the lower left and his father’s brother Joe Watson found in center of the back row. The revelation that the photograph depicts an extended matrilineal kinship network was made more significant by the realization that phenotypes indicate that this network involved Afro-Barbadian as well as “poor white” genealogies.”

Debunking the imagery of the “Irish slaves” meme – Liam Hogan – Medium

Racism has distorted reality for many whites. Teachings about history, the world, the pursuits of thought, expressions of culture, and personal relationships have for most whites been both limited and false.
 

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