@Earth Traveller: get a life

@Earth Traveller: Better than the invasion or overthrow of democratically elected governments by the U.S.

@Andrew English: Think the colonial countries have had a monopoly on strangling African countries. Not defending China.,but amazing how people forget the rape and plunder of Africa by European powers.

@Donal Desmond: nobody is forgetting how the Europeans, Soviets and Yanks plundered the continent. The way China are doing it is completely different. There is no invasion, blood spill or even boots on the ground like previous colonial masters. All this development and progress comes at a huge price the moment a cent cannot be paid. I think they just took over the only international airport in Uganda. All part of their written agreement. Sign the dotted line at your peril. Nobody is saying anything to China as the West is also tied into many agreements in terms of low wage production for practically everything. When you see bank ceos apologising to China for comments made about CCP longevity or the fact that skipped Xi for naming new variant you have to question who is actually in control?

@E.J. Murray: If they don’t collapse first. They are on the brink of a demographic implosion. Their housing bubble is bursting. They (wittingly) have lent to other nations, many of whom cannot repay (and China has taken ownership of some of their infrastructure). They are pumping a lot of money into military. Lots of structural financial issues and demographic issues. China is creaking a bit.

@EꙆoᥒ Mᥙ⳽ƙ:
You’re mistaken. While there are no Irish records because they were destroyed when the Dublin Public Records Office was burned in 1922, there is documentary evidence in the State Papers in the English Public Records Office in Kew & in the Barbados Museum and Historical Society regarding Irish slave trade in the 17th century.
“To Hell or Barbados – The ethnic cleansing of Ireland” by Sean O’Callaghan, researched & wrote about the Irish slave trade to Barbados under Cromwell & visited the island in 1993 to further his research. He interviewed 2 Barbadians of Irish descent, who became known as “Red Legs” and there are plenty Irish surnames still there, even among the black population.

@Lamb:
As well as slaves sent from Ireland there were indentured servants, who signed up for 5 – 10 years, who it is claimed were inveigled to sign up with the prospect of a good life, good food & the prospect of a plot of land when their indentures finished. On arrival in Barbados they were sold to plantation owners for the duration of their indentures – their living conditions dependant on the owners goodwill. Indeed its reported that in 1648 indentured servants, led by Irishmen, plotted to kill the plantation owners & take over the island but the plot was discovered & they were hung.
Many women & young children, especially from Co Cork, were kidnapped and sold into prostitution in Barbados.

@EꙆoᥒ Mᥙ⳽ƙ: Completley untrue, it has never been discounted. When the Irish were slaves every slave in the world got a contract, and payment upon completion of the contract usually a parcel of land. This was true fro African or Irish people. Much later a black slave in america, got his freedom, got his payment of land, and got slaves himself to run it. One of the slaves when freed went to work as a slave for the white man who gave his old master his land, on the assumption he too could end up with a large lump of land. His owner sued and in the process successfully argued that black slaves could be kept for life. At this point, the value of Irish slaves fell through the floor as they had to be freed after a certain amount of time. It was at this point that the slave owners started to breed the african slaves with the white Irish women, as their offspring would be “slaves for life”, and could replace the leaving white slaves. This happened so much that it nearly collapsed the whole slave trade as irish women became nothing but mothers to a new generation of slaves.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Johnson_(colonist)

The irish were given the land as promised but it was unfarmable land and they became a generation of “white trash” in america and barbados. The term white trash was originally for the freed white slaves as the land they were given was so poor that they lived in squalor till they died.

Furthermore the top historians in Ireland, including the president of Ireland are all on record referring to those irish people as slaves, so is the government of Barbados. If you speak Irish or can find subtitles you can watch a documentary called “The red legs of barbados” commisioned by TG4 on the subject. It goes into the whole lot.

Just because some woke blm person told you the Irish were not slaves does not excuse you for not knowing your own history. This is a well documented subject. There were thousands upon thousands of Irish slaves. They were the first slaves in the Americas

Lastly, as I said before, payment does not mean you are not a slave anymore. The sex slaves in America, the slaves in Dubai all get paid. The romans paid slaves. Through history there has rarely ever been unpaid slaves. The ONLY difference between Irish and African slaves was that Irish had to be freed at end of contract, and over time African slaves had their contracts become “life long”. But if that is how you define slavery, then most of American black people were not slaves. 30% of black americans arrived in modern times, Most black slaves arrived when they could earn their freedom, or in states they could earn freedom, and a lot who were traded on “whole life” contracts left america and were transported back to Africa by the British.

@Fr Romeo sensini.: he’s correct. A historical and patriotic desire but very much not a wise financial move

@The Firestarter: you don’t speak for me.

@The Firestarter: should get rid of you out of this country for that comment

@The Firestarter: I know you think your being funny or cool but your not, it is obvious you are pushing hate against our fellow Irish men and women in the north in an effort to marginalize our struggle to unite our country.

@Liam Meade: back to the palm trees?