UK Black Lives Matter go on as in the event that they’ve been the one ethnic minority subjected to racism. They need to have a look at the larger image – and, particularly, mirror on how the Irish have really had it more durable than them.
I really feel these #BLM protesters within the UK ought to rely their fortunate stars that a few of their deplorable behaviour – akin to defacing statues of struggle heroes and attacking British Bobbies – hasn’t been met with excessive power by the police… but.
They need to keep in mind that there was really a time when British authorities didn’t hesitate to shoot useless their very own unarmed civilians who have been collaborating in a peaceable protest. Let’s not overlook Bloody Sunday in 1972, an atrocious act far worse than the deplorable demise of George Floyd.
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On that fateful day, British paratroopers indiscriminately sprayed bullets right into a peaceable crowd – some waving white flags in a determined effort to cease the bloodbath – on the streets of Derry. Are you aware what number of British residents died that day? 13 died instantly – lots of them fathers with younger kids and one other with an unborn little one on the way in which – and an additional one a lot later within the hospital. Twenty-six others have been injured.
So the place was the outrage when solely one in all these paratroopers, solely often known as “Soldier F” – who was described as a “homicidal maniac” – was lastly charged final 12 months? I do know the wheels of justice transfer slowly, because the outdated adage goes, however – come on! – it took nearly 50 years right here to get the ball rolling.
It actually begs the query: why don’t Irish lives appear to matter? I apologize upfront for turning the air blue, however the place are the f**king mass riots protesting about just one murdering b*****d out of 16 troopers – supposedly finishing up orders for Queen and Nation – who will possibly, simply possibly, lastly face the music?
A mockery of justice
It’s as if no person appears to care very a lot in regards to the reminiscence of those 14 individuals – all British topics – being gunned down in chilly blood by their very own individuals.
“It makes a mockery of the UK justice system that just one paratrooper will face trial for the Bloody Sunday bloodbath,” I wrote in on one in all my Irish Sunday Mirror columns final 12 months, which you’ll be able to learn right here.
I even doubt there will likely be a lot, if any, outrage within the biased English media, or any mass protests on the streets of London, if – God forbid – justice just isn’t served on this apparently open-and shut case, which has been hampered by the truth that the British military destroyed the (smoking) weapons to eliminate any proof.
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The worst-case situation of a not responsible verdict right here would solely reconfirm my suspicions that Irish lives merely don’t matter so far as the British public is worried.
No Blacks. No Irish. No Canine
Maybe I shouldn’t be too shocked by the way it’s all being dealt with as a result of we’re, in any case, speaking a few nation the place it was permissible to promote a flat for lease again within the 1960s with an indication declaring, “No Blacks. No Irish. No Canine.”
Johnny Rotten, of Intercourse Pistols fame, was so disgusted about it that he ended up utilizing it because the title of his memoir as a type of two-finger salute and poignant reminder of the discrimination his personal Irish dad and mom confronted once they emigrated to London.
I don’t wish to Brit bash right here, as a result of I’ve made some shut English mates, who’ve warmly welcomed me into their properties. I must also acknowledge that their Queen performed her function admirably in her makes an attempt to heal the injuries along with her historic go to to Dublin in 2011, throughout which she bowed her head to put a wreath at a memorial for the Irish who died preventing for independence.
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However I’d be mendacity if I stated I’ve by no means witnessed any racism towards us Irish within the UK. It looks like most Brits appeared to lump us Irish – north and south – into one melting pot. One reminiscence that also stands proud is seeing a bunch of Dubliners sporting Republic of Eire soccer tops – and never Northern ones, the place all the difficulty was happening – being spat at by middle-aged males again within the 1990s when the Tube was compelled to all of a sudden cease, as a result of there was a “suspicious parcel” on the tracks.
Paddy is our N-word
I’ve repeatedly been referred to as Paddy – the derogatory time period utilized by the British to explain us Irish, which is simply as dangerous because the N phrase, so far as I’m involved. And I used to be as soon as compelled – and this was within the noughties after the Troubles had ended – to vacate a bar, mockingly in impartial Switzerland, of all locations, when a bunch of British louts heard my accent and menacingly threatened me.
I agree with my former journalist colleague Michael D. Higgins – whom I’d frequently stumble upon earlier than he turned president of Eire – when he stated earlier this week that Éire – the Irish phrase for Eire – and Africa have a lot in frequent.
“Eire brings to the African desk its personal expertise, not solely of an financial, social, political domination, but in addition the expertise of a suppressed tradition, exile and, frankly, of racism,” he stated.
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Because the Jimmy Rabbitte character stated within the Roddy Doyle film ‘The Commitments’, “The Irish are the blacks of Europe. And Dubliners are the blacks of Eire. And the Northside Dubliners are the blacks of Dublin. So say it as soon as and say it loud, I am black and I am proud.”
You possibly can nonetheless watch it right here on YouTube – however be fast, as it can most likely be eliminated quickly by the PC police with their ridiculous OTT censorship of erasing innocent materials, such because the Fawlty Towers episode making enjoyable of the Germans.
I’ve at all times simply laughed off any barely offensive racist jokes in TV exhibits about “Paddies” – just like the stereotype of a dodgy Irish builder in each Fawlty Towers and Solely Fools and Horses, or the leprechauns within the cringe worthy Disney movie Darby O’Gill and the Little Individuals. However I might by no means want for them to be consigned to the dustbin.
Nevertheless it’s definitely no joking matter how BLM protesters have been inflicting mayhem on the streets of London and elsewhere over the demise of the ex-con George Floyd, who just isn’t even from the identical continent, for crying out loud. However I don’t perceive the over-the-top response within the UK, as a result of this ugly homicide by the hands of a white cop was, I am sorry to say, nothing new or uncommon within the good ol’ US of A.
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It goes with out saying that racism just isn’t completely an American downside and I am not suggesting it should not be tackled within the UK. Nevertheless it’s laborious to not view the BLM motion as being akin to an indignant mob once they brawl with or assault law enforcement officials, or deface a statue of the struggle hero Winston Churchill. I really feel they might have simply made their level with a few peaceable demonstrations. They need to’ve carried out all of it Gandhi fashion – i.e. peacefully.
In contrast to the harmless Irish who routinely risked being locked up when in England only for being Irish – like Gerry Conlon, whose story was made into the movie ‘In The Title of the Father’ – the black neighborhood there has clearly not been subjected to similar stage of police brutality as their brothers within the US – and positively nothing just like the violence suffered by the Irish. It makes any ongoing, aggressive protests now just about irrelevant in my e book. Sufficient is sufficient.
The British BLM protesters have to cease happening like they’re the one ethnic minority within the UK and acknowledge that different lives matter, too.
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