03-06-2019, 09:39 AM
(03-06-2019, 09:18 AM)Crazyjdawg Wrote: I didn't know that. That's tragic. What allowed the coal people to treat them like that? I can't believe they didn't break some sort of law or regulation. Or was it just that the laws had not caught up to their tactics at that time?
As for the Scots and Irish, the point I was making was mostly that whites, as a race, were not oppressed for any significant period of time. Not necessarily that any group of people who were white had never been oppressed. The Irish were oppressed by other whites, so it'd be difficult for white people to claim that oppression as a race related thing. It's more of a heritage based thing (white face like in White Chicks is not heritage specific after all).
There's the Arminians under the Ottoman Empire who were treated as second class citizens. Everything came to a head during the first world war as the Ottoman Empire started to crumble and they tried to wipe the Arminians out. Forced marches and mass murder resulted in 600k to 1.5 million deaths.
https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-i/armenian-genocide
Song of Solomon 2:15
Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes.
Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes.
