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A lot of myths posted in this thread like it is fact. Obviously people don't research. Not sure if people deliberately post mis-information but I was very surprised to learn on here (in the past) that Irish weren't considered white in the US and also that Irish were slaves. A quick bit of research was enough to realise it was BS. Not sure why people can't research before they post some of this stuff. Anyway Italians, Jews and of course Irish were always considered white. It always baffled me why the Irish wouldn't be considered white when they were the same colour as the Brits and were in fact part of the UK when they came to the US. It is sort of strange that people would believe this stuff. They were looked down on as poor, uneducated and Catholic because this bigotry followed them with the British.
You could be discriminated against and still be white. This is a good article looking at the topic.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.2a088855b5e4
I just like accuracy if possible and hope that people research this sort of stuff and don't take everything they read as fact because there sure is a lot of incorrect information posted on websites.
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