In my life I've found that those who have never been beaten down don't have a lot of sympathy for those who have. Those who have found their feet again are quicker to reach out to help those on the ground to get back up. Usually.....
@aspenfacer-valentine4397
4 жыл бұрын
Agree with the first, but there's some people who quickly turn to kicking down as soon as they climb a few rungs up the ladder. It's what we're conditioned into as a society, and in many ways it's a defense mechanism. A way of saying "I earned everything I have, luck and coincidence have nothing to do with it" and securing their place in society by telling others what their place is. Maybe I just listen to the wrong people, but there's so many with false faith in the system just because it lifted them up at random.
@haraldchristiansen6942
4 жыл бұрын
I had been down so long, it looks like up to me. I never realized how poor my family was because most of my friends were as poor as we were. I never went without, unless I chose to. 63 now, doing okay. Want to help people now who are struggling.
@jodir7620
4 жыл бұрын
I understand exactly what you are both saying. That was the reason behind the "usually...." at the end. I have had experience with both types of people. And I'd like to consider myself to be in the group that helps others up when and if I can. Unfortunately, most of the time, my resources are very limited to draw from, but I try. That's all any of us can do, really. Just do the best you can with what you've got. 😁
@zinaj9437
4 жыл бұрын
@@aspenfacer-valentine4397 - Like Justice Thomas who got into places through affirmative action measures that made the schools consider him. He wants to dismantle affirmative action because he did it on his own.
@haraldchristiansen6942
4 жыл бұрын
@@jodir7620 that is all we can do. If everyone did a little, it would turn in to a lot. Enjoy your Sunday afternoon. 🙂
@thomasridley8675
4 жыл бұрын
My parents never really got over me marrying a Mexican. So moved 1000 miles away. Problem solved !!
@fullmetalprism5249
4 жыл бұрын
Thomas Ridley 😂
@Sochi314
4 жыл бұрын
Are they the type that is afraid of how other people will see them?
@Hello-1814
4 жыл бұрын
Marry who u love and can bond with. Good job!
@margaretnicol3423
4 жыл бұрын
I hope you are very happy together.
@Mewobiba
4 жыл бұрын
Good riddance! Also, this reminded me of the Bo Burnham skit about his mother explaining gay sex to him.
@zinaj9437
4 жыл бұрын
Also remember that Irish people weren't always considered white.
@laurietaylor8340
Ай бұрын
And the Irish were badly discriminated against when they came to USA
@beautifulbutterfly1607
4 жыл бұрын
My sister-in-law is 100% Irish married to a Black man, my brother. I will have to pose this question to her! I’ll be interested to hear her response! I love her dearly❤️
@thehellyousay
4 жыл бұрын
No such thing as 100% Irish. Only 100% human.
@DAYBROK3
4 жыл бұрын
Carl Bailey look up Conan O’Brien s dna test
@EsbjornMcgee
4 жыл бұрын
We're all 100% African if we look back far enough.
@MartinShannonHayes
4 жыл бұрын
Carl Bailey Is a lion 100% African? If someone’s entire heritage is traceable back to one land mass, like mine is to Ireland I am 100% human but my entire family tree is confined to the island of Ireland, and I am 100% Irish when it comes to heritage. There’s nothing wrong with that. You seem to be projecting your opinion on someone else as fact, would you tell an Australian Aboriginal that they’re not 100% Australian? They can only trace about 30,000 years of heritage in isolation to one land mass. I suppose they could be wrong, but I would put my money on their opinion over yours.
@fredflagstone181
4 жыл бұрын
@@thehellyousay What a clown comment.
@1isgrl88
4 жыл бұрын
My 100% Irish matriarch was came to Maryland as an indentured servant and married a black freed man.
@blackflagsnroses6013
4 жыл бұрын
1isgrl88 wow that’s some history
@1isgrl88
4 жыл бұрын
@@blackflagsnroses6013 I appreciate it as the beginning of MY origin story...
@rhodawatkins4516
4 жыл бұрын
1isgrl88 It would be interesting to look beyond those two ancestors, also, to find where they came from and how they ended up where they did.
@1isgrl88
4 жыл бұрын
@@rhodawatkins4516 My aunt did some digging and put together several old photos of previous generations and some of the history as a small printing for the family especially the young ones. I have it here somewhere. I like to dig it out for St Patrick's day.😉😉😉
@twistedfrannie9311
4 жыл бұрын
Their lives definitely were not easy but I get it. My Irish Catholic father married my Dutch Jewish mother....her life wasn't easy and that was in the 40's.
@teresathomley3703
4 жыл бұрын
Proud to be Irish-American and proud to support communities of color. And reparations are a must.
@uponelevel08
4 жыл бұрын
Nah Beau. I'm Alabama born and Montgomery raised of African and European (Scot-Irish) descent and Irishman only saw our mothers good enough to sleep with and not marry, and our fathers as competition for labour. My husband of of Irish descent and knows the family name, but they have nothing to do with him or his family. When Irishman gained their "whiteness" they turned their backs on the African, African American. They were poorer cousins of the plantation owners who became slave drives, Confederste soldiers, segregationist after the Civil War, and members of the white citizens council who engaged in the Red Summer, Jim Crow, and the racial disparities of the 21st Century. If you gone tell it, tell it all!
@beingheardmedia6339
4 жыл бұрын
Thanks for this! Ever read the book "How the Irish Became White" by Noel Ignatiev? That's how I learned about it.
@uponelevel08
4 жыл бұрын
@@beingheardmedia6339 I am familiar with the text, but I have not read it. I am attend humanities seminars on the subject of whiteness in the U.S. and read scholarly journals on whiteness as power.
@beingheardmedia6339
4 жыл бұрын
@@uponelevel08 Cool! Oh hey the author of "White Fragility" recommended reading "American Nations" by Colin Woodard. It talks about America's regional differences and how they affect politics today. I just finished reading the chapter on Greater Appalachia. It helped me understand the Irish (or the Scots-Irish anyway who I know are different) a little more.
@uponelevel08
4 жыл бұрын
@@beingheardmedia6339 I'm from a part of the state known as the black belt, l own for its rich fertile soil and slavery. This area had its largest population of slave owners and Africans. Subsequently many of the slave owners and white citizens were of Scott-Irish descent.
@jonnylumberjack6223
4 жыл бұрын
Scott is a name. Scots or Scottish is correct. :)
@anotherrandomperson6653
4 жыл бұрын
As always Beau thank you for your thoughts!! I am Irish/Cherokee and yes, I am very proud of my heritage! I am also a firm believer that everyone is a fellow human being just trying to make it through their life the way I am trying to get through mine. Racism and hatred are a waste of time and not beneficial to ones health!
@thedudegrowsfood284
4 жыл бұрын
Irish/Soux here. 95% of the incidents of a violent nature I have had were with white men. I get along with African-Americans just fine. BTW, you must have the coldest garage in Florida, lol.
@demonorse
4 жыл бұрын
You can see his breath!
@thedudegrowsfood284
4 жыл бұрын
@@demonorse I thought he had been smoking for a second.
@Lowkey_ID
4 жыл бұрын
It's Florida, fleece comes out at 55 degrees.
@rwhunt99
4 жыл бұрын
@@Lowkey_ID You can't see your breath at 55 degrees. I was thinking he was in Georgia, not sure where. Maybe his garage.
@benjaminhenderson7059
4 жыл бұрын
He tends to record late night when its colder.
@kathysmith6413
4 жыл бұрын
because in the New England states in the mid - late 1800's signs in windows read no Blacks or Irish employed here.
@douglasphillips5870
4 жыл бұрын
When the Irish lost their accents they became white, and the italians were oppressed, and when the Italians lost their accents it bacame the Latinos, and when the light skinned Latinos lost their accents Latinos became white Latinos and nonwhite Latinos. There's a pattern and it only works for some people.
@kathysmith6413
4 жыл бұрын
@@douglasphillips5870 1890's sign on matresses no blacks or Irish were employed in themaking of this mattress. as reported by my 2nd generation Irish grandmother who was born and raised in New England
@jonnylumberjack6223
4 жыл бұрын
the 'standard' window sign was "no blacks, no irish, no dogs". because there's nothing like adding a non human animal into the equation to make a point about the status the blacks and irish were afforded.
@michelewalburn4376
4 жыл бұрын
I've heard the no Irish, no black, but I had never heard that they added dogs to that. I'm sickened, but not surprised.
@eulidowell927
4 жыл бұрын
@@michelewalburn4376 in England it was common after the people of the carribean was incourged to come over to help rebuild the country after WW11they had housing problems as they were met with signs that read NO BLACKS NO IRISH NO DOGS
@pierreferguson5257
4 жыл бұрын
"At the very same time that America refused to give the Negro any land [Forty acres and a mule - Special Field Orders, No. 15 (series 1865)]. Through an act of Congress, our government was giving away millions of acres of land in the West and the mid-West, which meant it was willing to under girth its peasants from Europe with an economic floor. But not only did they give the land, they built land grant colleges with government money to teach them how to farm. Not only that, they provided country agents to further their expertise in farming. Not only that, they provided low interest rates in order that they could mechanize their farm. Not only that, today many of these people are getting millions of dollars in federal subsidies not to farm. And they are the very people telling the Black man that he outta lift himself up by his own bootstraps. And this is what we are faced with. Now this is the reality. Now when we come to Washington, in this campaign, we are coming to get our check." - Martin Luther King Jr.'s speech weeks before his murder in 1968. #Reparations #NoPartiality kzitem.info/news/bejne/rKiInqKspHqFd5w
@conservativelens
4 жыл бұрын
Run for president Beau
@wadedblade
4 жыл бұрын
I always like the way you speak to the truth Beau, Peace little Brother!!!
@cersha32
4 жыл бұрын
West Belfast girl here.. We understand what it is like to be treated as a second class citizen in your homeland
@tdalb8985
4 жыл бұрын
Beau, I admire your compassion, and thoughtfulness. We should all be as.
@AvangionQ
4 жыл бұрын
0:24 [Black man asks a white man] "Why is it that any time there's a white person who even vaguely seems to care or understand, they turn out to be Irish, or of Irish ancestry?" Irish or Jewish, cultures/ethnicities that also knew oppression.
@thehellyousay
4 жыл бұрын
Keep telling yourself that. Don't pay any attention to what's being done to, say, Palestinians by Israelis using their religious identity and history as a shield to protect them from prosecution for committing the exact same crimes as were committed against them. Victims of pedophiles don't get a free pass to become the next generation of pedophiles, do they? Surviving genocide doesn't justify going on to commit it against anyone else, either.
@frederik7338
4 жыл бұрын
@@thehellyousay I don't think the post meant to excuse Israeli apartheid. You can recognize that phenomenon, and still acknowledge that jews are historically an extremely persecuted demographic. It neither started nor ended with the holocaust. To reiterate, I agree with you wholly that the treatment of jews, does not excuse Israels treatment of Palestinians.
@thehellyousay
4 жыл бұрын
@@frederik7338 I think you leapt to a general conclusion about oppressed peoples for which there is little evidence in support of. On the other hand, I point to a very specific example, one that has been ignored for 71 years, that supports my general contention that the oppressed more often learn to oppress, than otherwise. The pedophilia analogy is also apt, never mind personal. 85-90% of the victims of a pedophile will become either dysfunctional, addictive, suicidal, violent, criminal, promiscuous, paranoid, isolated, or any combination of any or all of those consequences if left to live with their pain and injury alone. The other 10-15% of victims not only get to taste all of those problems if left to live with the damage done, they also become the next generation of pedophile. Only early recognition that they're being victimised, and hard intervention even stands a chance of halting that avalanche of consequences. So 85-90% victimised ourselves, 10-15% victimised both themselves and others. Under no circumstances were any of us, including the next generation of sexual offenders, given sanction to be petty thieves, junkies, prostitutes, or drunken bar brawlers. Or child molesters, rapists, or murderers. Think on that. However you choose to perceive it, 100% of the victims go on to victimise someone. That most of us intenalised it and destroyed ourselves (primarily) is small comfort when you realise just how thin that difference between promiscuous junkie I became, and the sexual predator I could have become, truly was. Nor did I harm only myself. My parents and family suffered shame for my lawlessness and feared for my safety. My parents have even been told I was dead by the police. Imagine that pain. My family mostly thinks I'm a waste of skin no matter what successes I've achieved over the last 32 years. But worst of all, to my mind, is the heartbreak I've caused some truly beautiful women and amazing kids to feel because I left them whenever they got too close to wounds I wouldn't allow to heal, because I didn't feel I was you'd enough for them, as if what they wanted didn't matter as much as my deluded altruism. No matter how you slice it, I am an asshole. Just not the kind of asshole you mistake me for, and certainly not the asshole I could have been. The violated want to violate. They learn how to from their violators. Then, the only thing standing between desire and action is self-perception. "What deep wound ever left no scar?"
@delite7DFG
4 жыл бұрын
They understand because of the “Troubles”. Bobby Sands SIP
@fefelarue2948
4 жыл бұрын
I've asked both Irish and Irish-Americans and they say they aren't white they're Irish. Both groups were suppressed by the same people. Both groups used the Master's language against them in poems and songs.
@keepmoving1185
4 жыл бұрын
I’m Irish Mexican, this was great!!!
@barrythompson7336
4 жыл бұрын
There is an old saying, an Irishman is just a black man turned inside out.
@dynamicworlds1
4 жыл бұрын
@@johndillinger8482 think older. Irish people didn't used to be considered white. (Btw, typically "black" wasn't the word used most of the time back then. It's possible "black" was used in a more reappropriated version before that quickly fell into disuse as the Irish became more included in the category of "white")
@thehellyousay
4 жыл бұрын
@@johndillinger8482 It's an old saying. Learn some frigging history, and you'll understand that it was a way of denigrating both African American and Irish American people.
@DaemonWulf7
4 жыл бұрын
@Es1911sumware the discrimination was real, but indentured servitude is not slavery. is not even comparable to slavery. i have Irish in my ancestry, and would never be that disrespectful.
@DaemonWulf7
4 жыл бұрын
@Es1911sumware so one dictator murdered, enslaved and exiled a very limited number of people for a very limited span of time, and you're comparing that to the chattel slavery of america. i almost envy your naivete, but you're reaching and you know it (hopefully). i did listen to the whole video, and nowhere in it was he stupid enough to even bring up "Irish slavery". my location is somehow relevant... or were you simply going to use it to spout another convoluted, baseless theory?
@bigearl3867
4 жыл бұрын
We hear about how reparations to the descendants of chattel slaves is not a good idea. Could we discuss the 300 dollars in reparations paid per head to former slave owners when slavery was ended after the civil war?
@northernwitch3626
4 жыл бұрын
Excellent point.
@thehellyousay
4 жыл бұрын
Britain didn't finish paying "reparations" for the "costs of abolishing the slave trade throughout the Empire" to slave owners, until 2007. Ironically, slavery only became truly illegal in England in 2010.
@thehellyousay
4 жыл бұрын
@Marc Ruffalo The descendants of those slave owners should, quite frankly, lose everything. Everything. Houses, businesses, bank accounts, investments, jewels, artworks, yachts, heads...
4 жыл бұрын
@Marc Ruffalo let's say how many in that fraction is the fraction taken. 1/32 then you lose 1/32 of your wealth. 20/32 you lose 20/32 and so forth
@thewoiceofweason5546
4 жыл бұрын
@@thehellyousayI think you'll find it was 2015 not 2007
@LostCylon
4 жыл бұрын
I saw comments about where Beau is from, Floridian. wherever. I t doesn't matter. He speaks to the heart of the matter, wherever your are, Truth is Truth. I am Australian, and I feel it as strongly as any other here...
@philthy.basement
4 жыл бұрын
Thank you Beau 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
@jonmobile5521
4 жыл бұрын
You are the first man i have heard with any type of platform that is not black and really gets what needs to happen to START to fix things...
@kelliehowe9211
4 жыл бұрын
Timely. Talking today at work about similar issues north of the border with our First Nations.
@pfm6283
4 жыл бұрын
In Mexico the saint Patrick's battalion are considered heroes for helping the Mexican people against the USA invasion in the 1800s
@candacecasey5634
4 жыл бұрын
That is so cool because I have both Mexican and Irish ancestry. Thank you for sharing this ❤
@thehellyousay
4 жыл бұрын
American Irish people are forgetting their history. It's easier for them to do because they're pale too.
@j8ke30
4 жыл бұрын
Beau for President
@Capt_Caveman205
4 жыл бұрын
I love how you dont just blurt out your opinion. You always put everything in context and then make a well thought out response
@T.A.W
4 жыл бұрын
Mother's father lived in a ghetto in Chicago until his mother died. Then as an orphan, he lived under Navy Pier. He didn't finish grade school because he had to scrounge and hustle to live. He worked hard and learned to be the best in his trade...and had almost nothing to show for it. In his 70s, he had a stroke and did a face plant on the sidewalk. The folks they call "Chicago's finest" came by, assumed he was just another drunk Irish guy (breaking stereotype, he didn't drink alcohol), took him to the station and threw him in a cell to dry out. Yeah, I can relate.
@marsazorean62
4 жыл бұрын
bless you
@gustavmeyrink_2.0
4 жыл бұрын
Signs in windows in 1960s Britain: 'Bed & Breakfast No Irish, No Blacks, No dogs'.
@mikeoliver3254
4 жыл бұрын
We need to guarantee a basic level of dignity in this country. That should contain food, shelter, medical care, and good education.
@deidrecohoe5900
4 жыл бұрын
I really like your message
@redrooster5683
4 жыл бұрын
Thanks boo from black man
@kerrydehorney2949
4 жыл бұрын
Thank you sir!
@chrismarshall7131
4 жыл бұрын
Irish family. Many Black/Irish cousins I adore. Greater Boston area.
@daiakunin
4 жыл бұрын
Interesting historical parallels. A round of Guinness has a remarkable ability to bring people together.
@ashleyturner3998
4 жыл бұрын
Love your work!
@kartavianmacrath7219
Жыл бұрын
I am from Kentucky, and my grandfather has proudly 'educated' us in the art of turning applicants away, without them knowing it was their race, gender or whatever was the reason as late as the 90s. Throwing applications away as soon as someone walks out the door, knowing it was illegal, but explaining that it was only illegal to get caught... Thankfully, most of us walked away knowing better.
@theelephantintheroom8016
4 жыл бұрын
Stereotyping and painting everyone with the same brush is a real issue. When we don't see people as individuals we lose our humanity!
@lynneperg6853
4 жыл бұрын
Thanks to those who posed the questions and to your very understandable answers. History is very badly, if even taught, in the USA. This unfortunately is the case with our own as well as world history. It has been said that those who don't learn from their past are doomed to repeat it. Too many are crippled by lack of knowledge.
@TriegaDN
4 жыл бұрын
My Irish Great Grandfather on my dad's side, born into am immigrant family in Canada and grew up in Detroit, was very against racism towards African Americans. That whole side of my family is very against racism and I am proud of that. Racism towards African American's is very much an issue around any major rust belt city, most of my mom's side is very much has a lot of that that white traditional conservative racism.
@brendaaraba3504
4 жыл бұрын
Greetings from Qatar
@ddamianforeman8803
4 жыл бұрын
From Arizona to to Qatar: welcome my friend.
@daisyelmir1289
4 жыл бұрын
@@ddamianforeman8803 Welome is right from a fellow Arizonian here. 👋🏜🌼🏜👋
@daisyelmir1289
4 жыл бұрын
@Jimbus Rift Oh look.... someone whose moniker matches their intellect.🏜
@brendaaraba3504
4 жыл бұрын
Thanks all. I love love love Beau's masterful commentaries. I mean "thoughts"!
@daisyelmir1289
4 жыл бұрын
@@brendaaraba3504 Me too Brenda... Beau is an intelligent and wise man.🌼👍
@laughingjack85
4 жыл бұрын
During the Irish Famine the Choctaw tribe sent over 175 dollars (5,000 today) in relief to the Irish only 17 years after suffering the Trail of Tears. .
@thecircledk8597
4 жыл бұрын
The causes actually where VERY VERY similar /// in Northern Ireland Catholics had very little rights under the "Orange State"(Protestants) ... voting restrictions/housing and job discrimination etc. The "police" where 100% Protestant Loyalists and in '66 WAYYYYY before there was an IRA murder squads roamed Catholics neighborhoods killing Catholics civilians and the state did very little. The Orange Order could march through Catholic neighborhoods loudly singing songs about murdering Catholics and if Catholics protested the police beat them down... the causes where VERY similar Beau Northern Ireland after the partition was very similar to the Southern USA ... the BIG difference is an Irish Catholics LOOKS the exact same as an Irish Protestant ... that was the difference ... and we Irish when pushed take no shit when pushed to the edge
@christianefiekers337
4 жыл бұрын
i was born in the late 70´s in NI - when i was old enough to understand i thought god had forsaken that place - it was hell - and yes i´m Catholic .... - on the other hand what happened seems to be forgotten by those who started the Brexit mess - i will be praying for a solution without more Children like me
@thedudegrowsfood284
4 жыл бұрын
800 years of opression and genocide by the english.
@BigHenFor
4 жыл бұрын
Your account isnt totally correct. The IRA never went away after partition in 1921. They were always around but, the differences in how to deal with the split meant it split into different iterations of itself over the yeas - the Irish Republican Army, the Official IRA (OIRA), the Provisional IRA (PIRA), the Continuity IRA (CIRA), the Real IRA (RIRA), the ONH, and the New IRA (NIRA). So, some version of the IRA has been in existence in Northern Ireland since 1922. The IRA remnant that survived the Irish Civil War in Ulster was proscribed on both sides of the border, and played no meaningful part in the sporadic outbreaks of sectarian violence that occurred, except for two brief campaigns in the 1940s and between 1956 and 1962, which did not have broad nationalist support. They were weak and ineffectual. However, they were given new life when the extremist Protestant politicians gained sway in Stormont, and countenanced the emergence of Protestant paramilitary organisations that took to violent intimidation of Catholic districts and peaceful protest marches by the Civil Rights Movement. The Protestant dominated police force stood by, and some of their members participated in this backlash. You know the rest. That gave the IRA the support it had been lacking earlier.
@thecircledk8597
4 жыл бұрын
@@christianefiekers337 Same as me mate 1978 up here in Derry
@christianefiekers337
4 жыл бұрын
@@thecircledk8597 ´79 Portadown - got lucky Mom´s German took me back with her after a spiked car got of infront of Daycare - but the Nightmares still remain
@The_Prenna
4 жыл бұрын
In 1970 Bernadette Devlin was given the key to the city of New York. She'd seen a lot of racism from Irish Americans towards the black community so she gifted the key to the Black Panthers as a show of solidarity.
@yosh6278
4 жыл бұрын
As a blk guy. There's no need to discuss reparations if you admit you lied and why and all the other things that were lied about. If you don't wanna do it just own up to the lie
@lindaking1731
4 жыл бұрын
I enjoy listening and learning from watching your assessment of different issues facing our country; however, when it comes to civil rights, race is foundation this country was built on and continued to this day.
@thehellyousay
4 жыл бұрын
So, your country is founded on bullshit. Race is a fairytale, a myth just like "truth, justice, and liberty for all", and "the pursuit of happiness", or "exporting democracy".
@orsie200
4 жыл бұрын
I lived through it, and I’m still living through it, much to my chagrin.
@PNWGlinda
4 жыл бұрын
I can tell you from personal experience that the common ground between my deceased husband and I was our ancestors. I'm of Irish decent he from African American. Both were slaves and impoverished, looked down upon. We talked at length about this. And then there was simply the love we had :)
@sailingmaster
4 жыл бұрын
My gramps had a photograph of a door to a tavern in New York City, it was taken sometime before the turn of the 20th Century. On the glass in clear black script it said: "No Dogs, Blacks or Irish allowed."
@shavaunjohnson2662
4 жыл бұрын
In my experience, Irish and Scottish show up believing in bias, which is the first and biggest step. And Beau, its a rich, nuanced conversation about race in America that you're conducting on your channel. However that came to be, it's noble work, and I hope you'll continue it.
@snilloc52
4 жыл бұрын
There is a saying in England that goes "Innocent until proven Irish". Perhaps 600 years of British oppression might just make you sympathetic to other victims of oppression.
@thehellyousay
4 жыл бұрын
Everything the English did to the Irish, Africans, Indians, Dene, Maori, and Aborigines, they practiced on the Scots first. For a thousand years. Look at how that turned out. Now Scotland is famed for 4 things: raging alcoholism, raging racism, raging violence, and the worst diet on the planet. There's a few object lessons there, methinks.
@dynamicworlds1
4 жыл бұрын
@@thehellyousay idk, of the British Isles, it's hard to top England for the amount of racism, historically and currently.
@thehellyousay
4 жыл бұрын
@@dynamicworlds1 the English invented the notion of white superiority, and spread it through soap advertising, of all things. Personally, I'm enjoying brexit. It's good to see the English gearing up to inflict their arrogant stupidity upon the only victims they still can. Themselves. Gotta admit, I'd be enjoying the self destruction of America more if I didn't live next door where 1/4 of the world's fresh water is, and the temperatures won't hit deep fry anywhere nearly as soon as they will in the US. Y'all are evil. Your history is very clear about that. You picked up England's racist ball and ran with it. Now, you're on the verge of collapse because of that idiotic belief in superiority somehow being determined by a lack of genetic protection from solar radiation. Face it, only that which thrives in darkness, is ever pale of hue.
@thehellyousay
4 жыл бұрын
@Cian McCabe Well, there you go. 2000 years of documented history crumbles like dust before the personal memory of the very limited observational scope of your residency in England. I guess Oxford and Cambridge Universties can be shuttered now, eh?
@ChrisPage68
4 жыл бұрын
I have never heard such a phrase, or any English person use it. We had many Irish neighbours and we all got on well.
@DrSanity7777777
4 жыл бұрын
That's why I stopped feeding my dogs Alpo. The Pomeranians have nothing to lose but their chains. - Karl Barx
@thehellyousay
4 жыл бұрын
😆
@teresaweaver1012
4 жыл бұрын
You spoke to my ❤. I'm Appalachian "Scots Arsh" and my children's dad is Melungeon. We're a tough bunch lol.
@BeauoftheFifthColumn
4 жыл бұрын
LOL. Having been in Eastern Kentucky I read that in that unique accent that's a blend of Scottish, Irish, and southern American.
@thehellyousay
4 жыл бұрын
I've heard scotch arsh (technically, because both my families had to flee Scotland to Ireland a few centuries back, that's me in a nutshell) before, but melungeon? Do please, explain that one to me.
@teresaweaver1012
4 жыл бұрын
@@thehellyousay The Appies were still rugged terrain before the civil war. Small communities of Scots-Irish and Irish had settled small here for all the reasons Beau talks about involving oppression. Weaverville outside Asheville, NC (Weaver is a common Melungeon name, along with Bowman and Hyatt) is still owned and operated by a large Melungeon community. That's also Cherokee territory. Runaway slaves before the war made their way up here, and displaced freed slaves afterwards. They were prob heading north and found a little piece of ground here among the most oppressed "others". Poverty has a way of actually bringing folks together sometimes. As the three blended you get Appy ridgerunnerss lol. There's a lot of info out there and there are several theories which question whether the black people were actually African, or kidnapped from places like Portugal at the end of the slave trade. Most of us think both. Old stories seem to point to the possibility some were brought from civilized places because of their leadership skills in building communities and commerce. I don't want to hijack this thread, but please, if you're interested do some research. I am 100% Appy and still live here, and I suggest Wayne Winkler's books and publications. He's dedicated to the research as a Melungeon himself.
@margaretnicol3423
4 жыл бұрын
@@thehellyousay I didn't know that word either but google says: ''Melungeon is a term that first appeared in print in the 19th century, used in Virginia, Tennessee, and North Carolina to describe people of mixed ancestry. Melungeons were considered by outsiders to have a mixture of European, Native American, and African ancestry.'' You learn a little every day.
@PhantomQueenOne
4 жыл бұрын
Man I get it! The Irish side of my family came over here during the 'no Irish need apply' times. They even dropped the O' before their name. No one knows that Crotty (mom's maiden name), is Irish unless I tell them. My dad who was part Native Canadian was the bigot, which always confused me. The more *I* personally learn about actual history the more horrified I become. It knocked down my arrogance level towards others a lot. It also gave me a lot more compassion. What we really need is to have people from the time they're kids to be exposed to people of other cultures and viewpoints. It gives them more understanding of what the 'other' is really like instead of some nebulous boogie man.
@ZOOTSUITBEATNICK1
4 жыл бұрын
imo Outstanding vid. Again. imo
@rationalbushcraft
4 жыл бұрын
In your head, in your head Zombie, zombie, zombie-ie-ie What's in your head, in your head Zombie, zombie, zombie-ie-ie, oh The Cranberries about the Irish struggle.
@ChrisPage68
4 жыл бұрын
It was about the senselessness of it. Dolores didn't take sides when she wrote it. It was motivated by the murder of Jonathan Ball and Tim Parry, the IRA's youngest victims, killed in the Warrington bombing.
@Californiansurfer
4 жыл бұрын
True, my Irish brothers from south bend, Elkhart sand michagan tell me about their history which they were discriminated because they were catholic. Saint Patrick’s battalion who fought with Mexico and there is a statue dedicated to Irish soldiers in Mexico today. Yes, I work in Scottsburg Indian, Jeffersonville indiana and shepherdsville Kentucky which are totally different area.. True today.. I have many friends in Midwest today, but I realized not everyone is in the same boat. Respect Downey California
@debbiethompson14
4 жыл бұрын
THANKS BEAU!!!
@markhackett2302
4 жыл бұрын
When you've knocked someone down, you have to help them up. Doing so is not making you fall on the floor, no matter how much you might complain that you're being oppressed by having to help someone up.
@concibar4267
4 жыл бұрын
A recent question that grew right out of the other. It was "why didn't you answer my question from a year ago?"
@joshwilliams3653
4 жыл бұрын
Cause the struggle is real in the double wide too. From my view as an Irish blooded texan.
@annek1226
4 жыл бұрын
Thank you for this conversation. It brought to mind for me a conversation I had with a young black man in Colorado back in the late 80’s . I was visiting friends and woke up to find this young man engaged in conversation at the kitchen table with members of the family. As I poured myself a cup of coffee I listened to him bemoan the history of how his ancestors had been treated in the past. I pulled up a chair propped my chin on my hand and listened intently as he spoke. After a point he realized he had no idea who I was and asked! I stuck out my hand and said hi, my name is Anne! Let me tell you about my relatives and what they went thru! You see I am Irish! You see, most young black Americans believe they are the only ones who have ever experienced discrimination! He got quite the education that morning! Do we understand? Can we relate? Yes! We are far more likely than anyone to reach out.
@craigcorson3036
4 жыл бұрын
I've never understood pride of ancestry. I am proud of the things that I have accomplished, not what others have.
@spindoctor358
4 жыл бұрын
It's just unfounded belief that being tied to great ancestors by genetics makes someone better than they actually are without actually achieving anything themselves.
@craigcorson3036
4 жыл бұрын
@@spindoctor358 Sort of a Stolen Valor thing, then.
@nfzeta128
4 жыл бұрын
I understand it but people should realise they can only be truly proud of ancestry if the ideals and actions of their ancestors is properly learned from and shape who they are. Some people see it as something that stands on it's own... which is false.
@gregbrogan9061
4 жыл бұрын
We stand on the shoulders of our ancestors... our beliefs and culture is shaped by them. Their success in struggles paved the way for us and is a source of motivation. To be proud of ancestry is to recognise and appreciate our connection to them.
@craigcorson3036
4 жыл бұрын
@@gregbrogan9061 You don't understand. It isn't that I am unappreciative of the accomplishments of our ancestors; in many cases, I'm ASTONISHED by them. It's just that I won't take credit for anything that I didn't do myself.
@gs_weiss
4 жыл бұрын
Evanston, IL just passed a resolution to use the 3% additional tax each city is allowed to add to cannabis sales to go entirely to a reparations fund for black residents. They're still figuring out how to use the fund, but it will go towards economic and housing assistance for black Evanstonians. Happy to say I voted for my alderman who proposed the measure, Robin Rue Simmons.
@NewtonSparetire
4 жыл бұрын
U can't really show empathy truly unless you can relate
@satanicoldlady8060
4 жыл бұрын
Funny thing is "pull yourself up by your own bootstraps" is supposed to describe an impossible act.
@BeauoftheFifthColumn
4 жыл бұрын
It does.
@clickbaitcabaret8208
4 жыл бұрын
I'm familiar with the history of the civil rights movement & the troubles, but I've never made a connection between them. Cool connection Beau.
@aleciaobrien7155
4 жыл бұрын
Thanks I needed this today. I may not know what's been mixed into my blood line all I know is I most definitly do not feel I would have much in common with any wealthy white upper class. My family has been in Canada for at least 300 years.
@scotgallagher5874
4 жыл бұрын
Irish in the north. Lived most of my life in mostly black neighborhoods. Always welcomed and accepted. Wish I could say that the reverse was true. Hope we can get better soon.
@marcsorensen2985
4 жыл бұрын
but remember your ethnic back round need not shape the person you want to be, be you first.
@ChrisPage68
4 жыл бұрын
Tell that to those who discriminate against them.
@marcsorensen2985
4 жыл бұрын
@@ChrisPage68 I just did
@thehellyousay
4 жыл бұрын
@@marcsorensen2985 Probably not. You're preaching to the choir, mostly.
@SonomaBear
4 жыл бұрын
A large number of the Irish migrated to the south and suffered from being viewed as unwanted like the African Americans.
@boofogle
4 жыл бұрын
I like and appreciate ur videos bruva
@paigeharrison3909
4 жыл бұрын
My great-grandmother was disinheireted for marrying an Irish man. As for reparations, a couple of thousand dollars each isn't going to help much. What's that going to do, pay a month or two rent? The system needs completely redone. Torn out from the roots if necessary. Only then can any sort of reparation be helpful.
@thehellyousay
4 жыл бұрын
Free college tuition would go farther. Free healthcare, too. Combining those with a base income of $2000/month for every descendant of slavery over the age of 18 would probably succeed in wiping this debt clean in a mere 1000 or so years. Pity we'll all be extinct, thanks largely to America, in about 200-300 years.
@thehellyousay
4 жыл бұрын
@Marc Ruffalo What's America's net worth? Who did the work building your nation so it could be worth anything? How many years of interest for you imagine has accrued on that debt? But hey, you won't pay it. In a couple more centuries, the poisonous stupidity of the American economic and social paradigm that its hubris and military hegemony allowed it to foist a delusion of a endless growth and riches upon the world (no globalist like the one who thinks s/he owns the world by right of existence), will have effectively consigned homo sapiens to the fossil record. To be honest, considering the criminal infant you call your president, I'll be pleasantly surprised if you don't nuke us all out of the evolutionary tree before I'm dead in another 15- 20 years.
@thehellyousay
4 жыл бұрын
@mxt mxt Really? You think that giving the descendants of slaves free tuition, healthcare, and a base income as a firm if reparations will somehow preclude their right to complain about 400 years of criminal abuse continuing anyway? Ain't you late for a kross-burning or something?
@stephaniewilson3955
4 жыл бұрын
Laws without enforcement are so much wasted paper.
@cassinkingbird9777
3 жыл бұрын
. . Laws they can't enforce are made by fools. Duel Citizenship will do this for us.
@LazyIRanch
4 жыл бұрын
I think it's a good thing to know one's own family history, especially in regards to how and when one's ancestors migrated to America. Even though I was a white girl, raised in E. Texas in the 60s in an upper-middle class family, my parents did not tolerate racism. Sadly, my parents were very unusual in that regard but I understand how they came by their aversion to prejudice and hate. Mama was 1/4 Cherokee, as her Mama was a "half-breed" in Oklahoma. My Grandmother had a very hard life of poverty, and died young when my Mom was only 11 years old. Because of Mama's blue eyes, she got to go to a Masonic orphanage (her Dad was a Mason) but her older, brown-eyed dark-haired sister didn't. She married a widower 20 years older at the age of 15 in 1932, and helped raise his kids. Her stepdaughter was the same age as herself. Daddy's family migrated from Germany in the 1870s. My Great-grandfather was kind of a big deal in the Texas community where he raised a family and built many homes and churches that are still in use today. He employed many freedmen and taught them carpentry skills. The pride in their workmanship is evident today in those beautiful old buildings. My Granddad was born in 1882, and he told me about his Dad's best friend, a Comanche man whom I have a picture of, clowning around with my GreatGranddad. He's holding a hatchet over my GGDad with a stern look, like he's about to split his skull with a tomahawk. Good times, LOL! I've looked up census records, and noticed something disturbing during the WWI era. All their names were Anglicized, so Karl Friedrich was written down as "Carl F", his wife Julianna was shortened to "Julia", some of their 13 children's names were completely changed ( Werner and Angelica became "John" and "Anne"). I don't know if it was the census takers who changed them, or the family to avoid harassment. Germans were not well liked then. I'm old, so I remember talking to kinfolk who were alive in 1880s. I'm glad now that I was that weird kid who loved hearing their stories, so at family reunions I sought out the really old farts and asked them to tell me what it was like when they were children. I sure wish I'd had a tape recorder then.
@robdeskrd
4 жыл бұрын
Living memory is a fascinating thing, information can be passed from one generation to the next like the silly jokes of grade school kids, they are learned on playgrounds & during lunch and if 1 generation of kids were all home schooled those most of those jokes would fall out of living memory. I think a major reason humanity suffers from its self so much is we don't live very long and an oppressed generations who struggles and wins can have great grand children who become the oppressors or, they can't be there to tell their descendants what they fought for. Living memory is valuable and can help keep us sympathetic to the plight of others. Cheers, 🐉
@jenniceplanche5322
4 жыл бұрын
Glad you listened too . Love your story.
@normasouza-brien2357
4 жыл бұрын
Until you walk a mile in my shoes you will not understand.
@phantommensa
4 жыл бұрын
The long and the short of it is you never know who you will fall in love with until it hits you right between the eyes. Race, nationally, country of origin have nothing to do with who you fall in love with in this day and age. And when people that those things do matter to, put away their prejudices and just accept that love is blind to what's on the outside and what two people feel for each other on the inside.
@thornyturtleranch6152
4 жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing....you may like some of my interviews especially of my 95 year old friend who was born in 1924 and I have about 18 hours of video with him but only a few clips of him on my channel. His stories can easily make a movie of his life. Look at beautiful hearted man ! Look at the ones about moonshine and also about saving private ryan.
@RhondaAbrons
4 жыл бұрын
I'd love to talk more about this. Deep in Georgia, many years ago, my Irish/English great grandfather found a loophole in the law. Could not marry my great grandmother but could adapt his own children. So, Benton is not a slave name.
@RhondaAbrons
4 жыл бұрын
Oh. And all Bentons are so proud we know we are all related whether black or white. Really amazing.
@patrick247two
4 жыл бұрын
In New Zealand, early settlers referred to the native Māori as the Irish of the South Pacific.
@greeneyeswideopen774
4 жыл бұрын
Good point
@darrenskjoelsvold
4 жыл бұрын
My mother is Irish and Swedish and I can tell you my Irish family were treated like absolute crap in the history of the family. They can sympathize with those who are treated unfairly and I think that has something to do with it. They were treated like crap in Europe and they were treated like crap in the US and they worked hard to overcome and they have a deep seated sense of history and they remember and won't stand by while others are oppressed.
@SDG.12
4 жыл бұрын
While the basis of a sort of 'spiritual camaraderie' between the IRA and the civil rights movement is spot on (I mean the Irish socialists & republicans have long inspired oppressed people around the world, like James Connolly's Easter Rising in 1916 lit a spark through India & other British colonies to rise up in revolt). HAVING SAID THAT, I think this is a very slippery slope because of how cynically white nationalists have manipulated the "Irish slaves" trope (a total false equivalency to AA chattel slavery) & how pervasive that propaganda has become in recent years thanks to alt right meme-ing.
@chiefhuey2212
4 жыл бұрын
Real number is around 20 trillion
@sosolinhasnba2k24
4 жыл бұрын
Facts👍🏾🤑💰✅💯
@peacenblessin
4 жыл бұрын
wps Beau, you're right on point about the Irish....They even mixed with blacks. In love and not otherwise...
@ThePerimeters
4 жыл бұрын
Actually I'm from Boston and I will always have a warm place for the Irish. They intermarried there to. My mom's first husband was half Irish.
@LindaB651
4 жыл бұрын
Thanks, Beau!
@jjones0822
4 жыл бұрын
The primary focus is the payment. We're not worried about ending systemic or other kinds of racism. We want a economic autonomy. A financial foundation from which we can neutralize it when it happens
@janeguarnera7700
4 жыл бұрын
People who have been oppressed, as individuals, as a people feel empathy for any other who has been. Had a young male jr high student approach me with the statement, "Your people put my people in slavery" My response...dude I'm a female...we're fighting for the same freedoms from oppression. What could have been a nasty confrontation became a discussion about common experiences and a purpose to work towards civil liberty. We were 13yr old students facing revolution on many social issues, the conversations we had hence were illuminating to us both as we realized just how common our goals were for our both our generation and those who came after.
@thedancechannel736
4 жыл бұрын
I never knew that about Irish Americans. I remember Jewish Americans were involved in the very beginning of the Civil Rights Movement.
@rogerflanigan6427
4 жыл бұрын
Never thought of it.
@kranzonguam
4 жыл бұрын
👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼 As Americans we tend to think that oppression follows color/race lines because that is the experience of the last few generations. The Irish experience in the US (and the Italian, Russian, Poles etc, as other commenters are pointing out) is a reminder that this has a class base. Elites are fine keeping any race down if it keeps them on top. We need to create class consciousness to create bonds between all ethnicities and oppressed peoples.
@princessjohnson8217
3 жыл бұрын
Alright alright sir
@Lowkey_ID
4 жыл бұрын
St. Patrick's battalion, during the Mexico invasion of the 1800s. Look it up.
@shavaunjohnson2662
4 жыл бұрын
Yes!
@chrishilliard948
4 жыл бұрын
I would really like to have a convo with you. You have a way of thinking that is so "complicated" it's "simple". I admire your views and the way you break them down.
@Indigoqueer
4 жыл бұрын
I think it may be the same with Italian Americans in the South as well considering what happened in New Orleans and in Arkansas and other areas during the 19th and early 20th century.
@barbrakennedy65
4 жыл бұрын
Hello friends
@MorganMingo70
4 жыл бұрын
Im glad you mentioned people from Boston not feeling the same about the Irish. Most Black people from the North East know better because of the strong Irish presence in the very police force which abuses Black citizens. That said, Im Black with close Irish ancestry & an Irish name...
@jacobhurley9587
4 жыл бұрын
There's no obvious way to empathize with a young man you cannot see a younger version of yourself in. That has bought me a lot of grace that I'm sure wasn't afforded to others who were in similar positions.
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