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Tuesday August 30, 2005 11:55

by By Any Means Necessary

Racism and unionism the hypocrisy lives on.

Last week it was reported in some of the press that in counties Armagh and Down, unionist paramilitaries and their business allies in the "protestant" community had been exploiting migrant workers.

Unionist politicians have since the GFA, paid lip service to the inherent racism in their community.

The sustained racist campaign by loyalists aginst the ethnic minority communities in the six counties since 1996, has mirrored their commitment in keeping sectarianism alive in the six counties.

The silence of respectable unionist politicians to the sectarianism of their paramilitary allies is well documented. However the blatant racism within the unionist community has rarely been highlighted.

The rationale being that condemnation of this community will only make the situation worse...unionism's inherent bigotory is the oldest elephant in the living room...ignored and rarely explored in the mainstreamed media

The criminals of the unionist community who have been active in the sex slave industry, migrant worker exploitation and racist intimidation of those ethnic minorities they could not control, are supported and financed by "respectable" members of the unionist community.

The hypocrisy of the unionist paramilitaries in demanding white and protestant only areas, while importing and exploiting migrant workers has been exposed again.

When will it be stopped ?

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read an excellent little book

by still in migration - re-emergence due soon

Tue Aug 30, 2005 12:25

Encounters: How Racism Came to Ireland
by Bill Rolston and Michael Shannon
108pp, Beyond the Pale Publications

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Gary Younge reviews
Encounters: How Racism Came to Ireland
by Bill Rolston and Michael Shannon
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,725466,00.html

'' We learn not only that "with the exception of London, Dublin had the largest black population of any 18th-century European city", but also about the support that came to the Irish republicans from black Americans such as Marcus Garvey, and the involvement of many Irish-Americans in the most vicious racial disturbances in America during the early part of the last century. From this complexity emerges an ambiguous relationship between racial and national liberation. This ambiguity produced passionate abolitionist speeches from Irish MP Daniel O'Connell: "I want no American aid if it comes across the Atlantic stained in Negro blood." ''

Can be bought at SF Book store for 11.40
http://www.sinnfeinbookshop.com/en-us/dept_5.html#item_870

more info:
History of the Slave Trade in Ireland
http://www.historyireland.com/magazine/features/11.1Feat.html

get the book to see the cover upclose: 'savage' on bended knee to Queen

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