Becoming white

[Clifford Black]

This post was placed by Al Lewis---"http://www.pitt.edu/~hirtle/uujec/white.html"

[Adisa]

I appreciate this posting.  I have been looking into history of people from Ireland and the treatment they received from the English or Anglo Saxons.  I think I would not only benefit from attending such a training but I would love to learn to facilitate this type of training. 

My mother's maiden name is McClary and I recall a recent time that a relative seemed to be almost  boasting of relatives having been owned by people from Ireland, or at least it seemed to me as If this individual took some delight in embracing that notion.  I didn't sit well with me even though I was unaware of the history of people from Ireland during colonization. 

With the looking I have been engaged in I have been able to relate movies and other information I have come across in the past, which I have been using to piece the puzzle together.   I wonder if people of Irish ancestry have forgotten this history, are unaware of this history or choose to forget it rather than embrace their oppression as so called black people seem to. 

[Clifford Black]

Adisa, these are good questions, and this is what we have been helping those of us that are trying to learn to investigate.  You will be able to do greater works than what is being done, that is a promise.

B.