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re: The New Basin Canal Memorial Monument
Posted on 5/21/17 at 9:11 am to USMCTiger03
Posted on 5/21/17 at 9:11 am to USMCTiger03
On a side note, that levee in the background is a nuclear bomb shelter.
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Posted on 5/21/17 at 9:13 am to Placebeaux
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black America
Needs to GTFO
Posted on 5/21/17 at 9:18 am to Placebeaux
Take it down!
Posted on 5/21/17 at 10:10 am to ksayetiger
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This is true. No one was treated worse than irish immigrants, one could argue.
You could easily argue that
Posted on 5/21/17 at 10:16 am to shawnlsu
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OP had a hint of SJW. Itnmat be that my sarcasm meter isn't functioning yet.
Another cup of coffee will have it back up and running.
Posted on 5/21/17 at 10:23 am to Placebeaux
quote:And some people think we have it bad now days.
They fell where they worked and, usually, the bodies were left there - just pushed to the side and buried in the canal's levee or in the roadway fill next to it. No family member to whisper goodbyes, no priests to offer prayers and no marker to indicate that a life had ever been lived.
Posted on 5/21/17 at 10:45 am to Placebeaux
quote:Is that the one that was at the end of West End Blvd?...now a high end neighborhood?
On a side note, that levee in the background is a nuclear bomb shelter.
This post was edited on 5/21/17 at 10:45 am
Posted on 5/21/17 at 10:55 am to Crow Pie
Yes
Posted on 5/21/17 at 11:50 am to TigerNlc
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Take it down!
It's a monument to the workers. It would be like a monument to slaves at Audubon Park.
Irish weren't considered white back then so it's PC, or would be if SJW types were historically literate.
Posted on 5/21/17 at 12:03 pm to Bestbank Tiger
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Irish weren't considered white back then so it's PC, or would be if SJW types were historically literate.
My Irish ancestry comes from The Bowers Family. Before they came to America the name was spelled Bauer, which is Jewish. My Great Grandfather was Despeaux(100% French). He would always tell my Great Grand Mother(Bowers) that "Irishmen are just nigers turned inside out" So getting back to your comment, its true they weren't considered white and were referred to as the derogatory term we know today.
Posted on 5/21/17 at 12:41 pm to Placebeaux
don't have time to read this...gotta look out of the window to be sure the guys cutting my grass aren't taking too long of a break.
Posted on 5/21/17 at 12:47 pm to Placebeaux
From a newspaper on February 16th, 1865
Posted on 5/21/17 at 7:45 pm to soccerfüt
Irish were known for short tempers and liked to fight. God invented whiskey so the Irish wouldn't concur the world.
Posted on 5/21/17 at 7:54 pm to Placebeaux
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On a side note, that levee in the background is a nuclear bomb shelter.
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New Basin Canal, early 1940's
There were nuclear bomb shelters in the early 1940s?
Posted on 5/21/17 at 8:18 pm to The Boat
Posted on 5/21/17 at 8:39 pm to ksayetiger
quote:lol.
This is true. No one was treated worse than irish immigrants, one could argue.
Give those immigrants a choice:
Them being enslaved ,along with their entire families for life . Being someone else's property subject to physical & sexual exploitation for life.
Or them being paid average pay for skilled labourers with the opportunity to find other employment elsewhere, freedom to save & go home,etc.......
I'm 100% certain that every immigrant would choose the latter.
Classic NeoConfederate downplaying of slavery.
Posted on 5/21/17 at 9:23 pm to Placebeaux
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The truth it's hard for ALL people that are poor. Exploitation by the rich of the desperate doesn't discriminate by race, we are all equally worthless in their eyes. Get over yourself black america.
Here's a little truth nugget for you.
Irish were used instead of slaves because SLAVES WERE TOO VALUABLE TO LOSE.
Let that one sink in next time a certain demographic whines and bitches about their treatment.
Posted on 5/22/17 at 6:04 am to sugar71
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Or them being paid average pay for skilled labourers with the opportunity to find other employment elsewhere, freedom to save & go home,etc.......
LINK
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The builders of the city's New Basin Canal expressed a preference for Irish over slave labor for the reason that a dead Irishman could be replaced in minutes at no cost, while a dead slave resulted in the loss of more than one thousand dollars.
They were regarded lower than slaves.
Also many blacks owned slaves in New Orleans.
LINK
Im not saying it was right, all Im saying is the history of slavery isnt exclusive to whites owning blacks. There are always going to be people that are vulnerable and there are always people looking to exploit that. The rich and powerful do not discriminate by race, creed or color when it comes to money. Not all chains are visible.
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