Hey, look at the hooks
on your pants makes you wanna dance.
I say yeah yeah,
I say yeah yeah.
There ain't never a catch, all you got to do is snatch,
do the velcro fly,
do the velcro fly.
You need just enough of that sticky stuff
to hold the seams of your fine blue jeans.
I say yeah yeah.
I say yeah yeah.
There ain't never a catch, all you got to do is snatch,
do the velcro fly,
do the velcro fly.
Well, it feels so right when you squeezed it tight,
when you reach the end do it over again.
I say yeah yeah.
I say yeah yeah.
There ain't never a catch, all you got to do is snatch,
do the velcro fly,
do the velcro fly.
It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing
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I guess by "colored" you mean persecuted/mistreated/looked down upon even in their own country.
What about Spaniards, Italians, Greeks, Romanians or whatever it is the Kardashians are?
Global Warming, it's a personal decision innit?

Nigel Tufnel

HMM. I'm black I can agree with that statement, I think Italians and Greeks could apply it to themselves too. I will say this though, Caucasian European people tend to set themselves apart from "white" Americans, most Europeans do not consider themselves privileged or white in the way they feel Americans do.

That is a common mistake, which forms part of a lie, namely that white slavers came later, however it's built on the assumption, that people with Mediterranean complexion aren't white.
The Roman Empire had extended slavery, and also had black slaves from Nubia. The island of the Irish people, Hibernia wasn't conquered or annexed by the Romans, so the statement of being enslaved before black people (by others of European descent or those trading with them) is false.
I'd have said, the institution of indentured servitude in Great Britain ended later than slavery was outlawed, and thus Irish people could've found themselves forced into servitude longer, than it was legal to own someone hauled from ships.
I live in the Gordius Apartment Complex, my interior designer was M.C. Escher.

The one person I have seen that understand the difference in African Blacks and other blacks.

Well were enslaved much earlier than the African blacks

What year is this? 1800?

That comes up in the movie "The Commitments" too, although it's done in a humorous way.
Jimmy Rabbitte: Do you not get it, lads? The Irish are the blacks of Europe. And Dubliners are the blacks of Ireland. And the Northside Dubliners are the blacks of Dublin. So say it once, say it loud: I'm black and I'm proud.

Excuse me? You can leave your racist opinions on the KKK message boards, nobody's interested in them here!

The Irish are drunk leaches that invaded the British and America .
"Stalingrad. . . The fall of Stalingrad was the end of Europe. There's been a cataclysm."

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Anyone who has done Postcolonial Studies in Ireland knows that the Irish are considered to be the only occidental postcolonial country. It's a little bit more complicated and subtle than simply being the blacks of Europe. But yeah, you've got the gist of it. The Irish were colonized, enslaved, murdered and treated as an inferior race by the British. The marks on the culture and the national psyche are very similar to that of other countries that have been colonized. One notable difference though is that the Irish have thrived as a country (at least in the South, Northern Ireland is a whole other story) since then, whereas most other postcolonial nations are still struggling with the aftermath of colonialism.
Eibhlinn Savage
[insert movie quote]

^lol, did you read that on the back of a John Bull cereal box?
It took Britain centuries to fully conquer Ireland. The Gaels were long past raiding English coasts when Cromwell came over to reconquer the lands form Irish Confederates and killed nearly have the civilian population.

The reason the English conquered the Irish during the medieval period was because the Irish were raiding England's western coast and butchering English subjects. And there were famines in Ireland long before the British.

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Well, what about Hispanics and Latinos? Many of them are White.

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In The Name of The Father was a great movie wasn't it

What a horribly ignorant, racist, uninformed post.
There are too many people with no shame. They just don't care how stupid they look.

Very interesting post!
People who don't like their beliefs being laughed at shouldn't have such funny beliefs

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