Racism And The Ignorance That Accompanies It

Dixie Elliot ✍ "Let no Irishman throw a stone at the foreigner; he may hit his own clansman” - James Connolly.

I removed this boyo Brendan Kelly from my list of friends, as I did Matt Treacy for the same reason - racism and the ignorance which accompanies it.

He had the neck to quote the Proclamation at me, well a very tiny piece of the Proclamation, 'in the name of God and etc...' (that was it in it's entirety) 'in the name of God and etc...')

Using the images of our dead patriots when you are a racist is an insult to those brave men and women. I'm certain that had Bobby Sands and his nine comrades, our comrades, been alive today they would be to the fore when it came to supporting the Palestinian people and welcoming immigrants to our country.

From the The Proclamation of the Republic:

"...and supported by her exiled children in America and by gallant allies in Europe..."

'Exiled children in America' - our people who were forced to leave their country in the hope of finding a better life in America but were greeted with racism as soon as they stepped off the ships and were herded like cattle through the processing station, Ellis Island.

The people today who come to Ireland seeking a better life, are fleeing wars, in many cases genocide, fostered mainly by the US who want to steal their national resources and put in place corrupt leaders who will willingly run the country on their behalf and give them free rein to take what they want.

As far as I'm concerned, regardless of race or religion, these people are our adopted children who should be guaranteed 'religious and civil liberty, equal rights and equal opportunities' which were denied to our people, the Irish people, when first they reached the far-off shores of America.

...The Republic guarantees religious and civil liberty, equal rights and equal opportunities to all its citizens, and declares its resolve to pursue the happiness and prosperity of the whole nation and of all its parts, cherishing all of the children of the nation equally, and oblivious of the differences carefully fostered by an alien Government, which have divided a minority from the majority in the past...

James Connolly:

The record of the successive hosts of foreigners who came amongst us and, finding Ireland a green and pleasant land, chose to abide there ... Let no Irishman throw a stone at the foreigner; he may hit his own clansman.

That quote suggests that Ireland has always been a land of diverse peoples and that Irish people should not judge or criticize others simply because they are not native to the land.

Enough said...

Thomas Dixie Elliot is a Derry artist and a former H Block Blanketman.

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