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Merry Christmas (Original Post) bigtree Dec 2018 OP
Poignant. Thanks for posting. Here is another which was posted on DU a few weeks ago. John1956PA Dec 2018 #1
K&R...👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼 spanone Dec 2018 #2
Perfect malaise Dec 2018 #3
Kick Hekate Dec 2018 #4
My family ancestry is half-Irish and half-German FakeNoose Dec 2018 #5

FakeNoose

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5. My family ancestry is half-Irish and half-German
Sat Dec 15, 2018, 01:11 PM
Dec 2018

The sad fact is that 150 years ago, the Irish and German immigrants were desperately poor when they came here. Most had no property or funds when they arrived, and some were even indentured because they couldn't pay the ship's passage. That meant they had to work as servants for 7 years until the debt was paid. In those days new immigrants were treated like the Central Americans are being treated now, with hate, fear and contempt. It's so unfair and un-Christian to hate people because they're hungry and desperate. Many citizens of German/Irish stock (including my family) have been here 5 generations and now most of us are doing fine, some are even doing great. To treat the new immigrants to our land like criminals or worse is just heinous and evil.

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