A hundred years ago she would have come to Boston and ripped out the Irish part of the city.

The Irish are white.

From AI review of the literature:

The phrase "Irish and blacks need not apply" refers to historical discrimination in housing and employment, most notably the phrase "No Irish Need Apply" (NINA) which was common in 19th-century newspaper advertisements in the U.S. and the post-WWII era in the U.K..

The phrase "No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs" was also widely reported as a common sign in U.K. lodgings during the mid-20th century.
Historical Context

United States (19th Century): Irish immigrants, particularly Catholics, faced significant discrimination in the U.S. and were often considered an inferior "race" by the Anglo-Protestant establishment. While some historians have debated the frequency of physical "NINA" signs, extensive evidence has been found for their use in newspaper employment advertisements, which listed the restriction for various jobs. Irish workers were often used for dangerous, cheap labor in preference to using enslaved people because the former were considered expendable, while the latter were valuable property.

Irish, jews, Italians and of course asians, and many others were all considered non-white. Catholics were also undesirable because of worries of their allegiance to the Pope instead of the United States, that was their theory of course. That carried all the way to the 60s when Kennedy almost didn’t run because he was Catholic.

the first Catholic President.

My father was a first generation Irish Catholic from Boston like JFK.
JFK felt like a relative.

So it was the most exciting election of my lifetime and that is when I became a political junkie for life.

(my younger political history)
My dad when I was about 12 in '65 would make me go with him as he slipped flyers for Democrats local races under our neighbor's apt doors.

I saw (future Mayor) John Lindsey get out of a car in my nabe with no one around him when I was 12 or 13.
And I campaigned for him on his reelection.

I was sooo going to campaign for Bobby when he'd arrive for our NYS primary which was after California 😭 .
Watched the Dem '68 Convention while we were on vacation!

We had a long school strike, so I went and campaigned for Humphrey.

After McGovern which kind of did me in I switched to semi activism on issues for the most part vs candidates. Of course, I followed the Primaries, voted etc.

Then I came back to campaigning for Bill Clinton.
I was invited to help decorate the ballroom at the Sheraton in '92; which they opened up the 2 dividers so it was practically (at least 2 city blocks long) an Avenue long! We were allowed to stay.

There were televisions on those stands scattered about. A press table to the left, and a seat of bleachers near the front for the camera, and film people. A big screen on the stage.
It was sooo exciting! 🎉 😄

Oh, and as an vusual artist I collected political buttons!
I might still have a very small Kennedy button my uncle gave me.

A piece of history.

The buttons sound very cool.

While it turned out to be a disaster (McGovern) they had one of the last great Democratic Labor rallies for McG in midtown.

I climbed up a lamppost w camera, and took pics of McG, Lindsay, and Ted Kennedy. I had to zoom in on the negatives to get a closer image of them . I think I still have the prints I made.

Saw Hillary give a speech for Bill.
Then one of the coolest rallies was B Clinton giving a speech a day or two before the '92 election. It was in ?Jersey City.

Having traveled around the US twice, plus DC, Philadelphia, Boston going to a NJ city was no problem. Actually, I'd already had been to Newark Airport. Except, I can't remember how I knew where to go once I got out of the train station!

Anyway, I was listening to hear the crowds cheering in the distance as my guide! 😄 I got there in time. Everyone was semi-bundled up. It was in front of a 4 story or so ? block long government or judicial building. It was sooo cool!
I did a really good drawing of it later. I don't know if I still have it.

And my sister and I went down to Clinton's first Inauguration, both of Obama's. Sooo exciting, and uplifting!
Clinton's, and Obama's 2nd were on the warmish side for January. But Obama's first one? Clear, and bright, but Brrrrrrrrrrr!

Sometime you should get all of your memorabilia together.
Perhaps someone would want it. It sounds like quite a collection.

I saw Obama up close during one of his first campaign speeches.
I am one of the people who shouted out: I LOVE YOU.
Obama shouted back: I LOVE YOU TOO.

I almost fainted, I was with a friend who was with me and she thought I had
lost my mind shouting out to Obama like that. Then we he shouted back
she was dumbfounded like I was.

That's the only story I have. But it is a good one!

It was a nice little collection. I have some of it left. I should at least put it all in one place.

And see if anyone in the family will want it.
Or a museum, sometimes local museums will want this kind of memorabilia.

👍

Even though he was a true American hero in WWII, it didn't matter.
The allegiance to the Pope propaganda was GOP political slander and theater.

My father was an Irish Catholic from Boston the same time JFK was there.
The love of America and freedom was palpable.

Old school Irish Catholics, recently off the boat were more cultural Catholics.
Not a lot of carrying on about religion, etc.
The Irish Americans here are the ones who went all evangelical and religious.

The discrimination continued into the 1900's.
JFK was given a very hard time in politics because he was Irish Catholic.

In the 1960's I was refused entrance into a children's group because I was Catholic.

And the point is that ethnic white people have been discriminated against in the US.

The time line was not the point of the discussion.

Condensed history with a lot missing: Northern European tribes slaughtered, subjugated, and reproduced with each other for centuries. These factions battled for what is now known as Ireland as well as the British isles. The Irish were slaves for the British and Danes before Africans were. Their land and people were pillaged, plundered, and stolen. The United Kingdom (aka UK) still controls about 1/6 of the island in Northern Ireland. The history between the Brits and the Irish is long and bitter. The rest, as indigenous Americans and Africans (and anyone who happened to live where or disagree with the British, French, Spanish, Danish, etc, “explorers” that I prefer to call genocidal maniacs wanted something) know, is history.

Paul's "Irish grandfather" being salty towards the English!

she may have been a light skinned Latina. There is video on social media of it. They later released her because she's documented as a US citizen. This happened in Florida.

Video

when were Irish not white? This makes no sense. Plenty of white people have been enslaved throughout history.

and they will be going after the "whites" when
they run out of easy to get people of color
don't fool yourself

during our illegal invasion and occupation of their homeland. Welcoming them with open arms would be a good start at restoring our reputation and image. What would Jesus do?

The Vietnamese in New Orleans are an integral part of the city’s fabric. They are well-liked and peaceful.

administration touches is? "Operation Clusterfuck". (With numbers such as part #1108 or some such.)

Nope.

the vietnamese have been here since that war ended. they are mostly citizens and without them we are short of doctors, nurses, teachers, and engineers.

my primary care guy is palestinian
my podiatrist is Vietnamese
my infectious disease specialist is nigerian

how do you replace skills like that?

Didn't we fuck up these innocent Vietnamese people enough in the Vietnam War?
Now these fucking ICEholes want to fuck with them some more?

I can't hardly wait for these Nazis to get what's coming at them in the form of legal consequences.