“Ryan added: “In certain sectors of this nation, people understand what ‘You don’t know me’ means,” Ryan said. “It’s very street. And it leads to a fight. A physical fight.”
Dear April Ryan,
As a Puerto Rican I can vouch for him...being full of shit.
Motherfuckers can’t hide from Black Twitter CSI.
Frederick Douglass has been doing a lot of really great things lately.
Girl bye, your thinking only keeps the division narrative instead of embracing it. Diversity is a matter of growth and , right , evolution in the human race. We need to get to a place as looking at eachother as fellow humans and not by race, nationality, gender, color, and other facial traits. Ironically feeding into…
Dishonorable and Bad Conduct discharges can only be given to a service member if they have been convicted by a court martial. In this case, since Chesny didn’t face a court martial, the lowest form of discharge they can issue is a General (under Other than Honorable) conditions.
Somebody get this man an invite to the cookout. Nothing like hearing a decent adult and established-politician in his own right call out corruption amongst his own. That way no one can accuse him of playing the race card—though they will.
Same goes for Poles.
‘How the Irish became White’ is pretty specious scholarship, but this article is great overall.
Before the Irish, the Germans were suspect, because too many were coming in and they kept speaking German - they even had German newspapers. Franklin called them “swarthy.” Some were indentured servants, like my ancestor, Leonard Ihrig (1773). But eventually they became white, for the same reason white women got the…
Thanks for reducing an ancient, diverse musical culture to a nasty joke. Imagine if someone said the same thing about Jazz, Blues, Shirley Caesar, Marian Anderson, Leontyne Price, or Hip-Hop based on Coltrane’s unsteady intonation on the Soprano sax.
I’m second gen off the boat and I’m sorry but soda bread is fucking terrible. I love bagpipes, I encouraged my husband to wear a kilt at at our wedding, I have 40+ cousins. Soda bread is the worst. You want to talk immigrant bread? Naan. Alllll day. ALL DAY!
“Whiteness is a construct”
Cartoons from the days when the Irish were considered subhumans in America. (Hmm... now that I think about it, the way we celebrate St. Patrick’s Day would seem to indicate that they are still considered subhumans.)