My pleasureTypical Lax Dad wrote: ↑Sun Jan 07, 2024 3:21 pmI never knew that. I learned something today.Kismet wrote: ↑Sun Jan 07, 2024 3:09 pmBraveheart was about SCOTS not Irish. Your Google button must be malfunctioning.cradleandshoot wrote: ↑Sun Jan 07, 2024 2:54 pm I'm comparing the treatment Irish immigrants received to how slaves were treated in the same time frame. If you wanna do some research investigate how the Irish were treated by the English. You ever seen Braveheart??? How many African Americans were shipped off to slavery by different cultures who defeated them in tribal warfare and got rid of them by selling them to the slave trade? Should they be held responsible for sending their fellow Africans off into slavery??? If you wanna take a deep dive investigate the entire many thousands of years of slavery in all cultures to include the Greeks/Romans etc...etc...etc. Maybe take a look at those Irish Immigrants who were new to this country. Maybe take a look at all of those Irish Immigrants who died fighting for freedom for all victims of slavery. Maybe take a look at how the civil war was the first successful war fought to end slavery in 1000s of years. Maybe you should actually study world history before your own ignorance makes you sound and look really stupid?
While you're at it try San Patricio battalion - a group a Catholic Irish-American deserters from the US Army who went over to fight for Mexico in the Mexican War - they fought against American troops at Churubusco and Chapultepec Castle. Those captured after Chapultepec were hung en masse in the city square as deserters by General Winfield Scott.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/ ... 180971713/
More than a few free blacks fought for the Union as well as emancipated slaves. White officers only.
Now what was your point again?
Try One Man's Hero (1999) with Tom Berenger as John Riley
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120775/reference/
It's why St Patrick's Day is a national holiday in Mexico to this very day.