Again the complications of Race and Racism, I like that this is not a shaming or we are oppressed too, it is an invitation to look at structural changes and what it means to assimilate into Whiteness... The Irish didn’t fare much better. Whereas the Scottish were aliens the Irish were Apes. The presentation of the Irish man as ape has a long history . . . In the days before the 19th-century discovery of the gorilla in the codification of the great apes which allow Charles Kingsley determine the Irish white chimpanzees... if they were Black, one wouldnt feel it so much Simeon qualities were usually those already identified in the supposedly half human savages of the New World . . .” (Newton 25-29) But, over time this relationship began to change. But, instead of the relationship shifting to become more of an equal partnership, something much more insidious happened. The English saw the Celts as a savage and dangerous animal. But, to briefly indulge in their colonial metaphor, instead of coming into a respectful relationship with that animal -- they continued to beat it, starve it and terrorize it. Then they declawed it and began investigating and training it and its children.
Posted on: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 17:22:00 +0000
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