Good morning folks,

Some of you who have dared to keep up with my latest rants will notice they were about the subjects of enslavement of the Irish and the hundreds of years this went on. I unequivocally state that I have never been a slave, my parents were not and my grandparents were not.  YOU the American public owe me no apology or anything else. It is over, it is done.

If you know anything about Irish -American history then you know that the Irish were treated to racism, discrimination and anti-Irish propaganda well into the 20th Century (remember: "No dogs or Irish allowed").

My ancestors were nothing more than poor Irish bog farmers and basically bonded to the British crown (landowner) for life (yes this would be even AFTER 1865). My relatives "got out while the getting was good" and made a new life in the US. At the turn of the 20th century the only job open to Irish in the north was in factories or lower level civil servants. Sadly some of my own reletives worked themselves to untimely and early deaths in these havens of hell.

I am aware that there will never be an apology to the Irish Americans. While they served in every war in America, helped build the railroads, and slaved in almost every major business in America they were still nothing more than "paddys".

So many think that because their ancestors were held as slaves THEY are entitled to so much more. I disagree. While slavery of any people is wrong, desicable, and should be stamped out at the first possible sign, it is impossible to correct history. My  own Irish relatives were in bondage in their own country and then in bondage in the US.  I cannot change it, nor alter it in any way. There is no one in America who has done this to my relatives the culprits are gone, long since dead. I pray only that God will have mercy on them, mercy they did not grant my ancestors.

I believe that to move on one must forgive the debt that is owed to their ancestors. The debt is NOT owed to me, but to previous generations, I am owed nothing more than acknowledgement that my ancestors were poor Irish slaves and servants who were discriminated against in the new world.

Collectively, we must move on. We must look upon the entire history of the US as having been good and bad for all Americans. We must truly work to ensure such a heinous institution or any like it (like current human trafficking or forced prostitution) are stamped out. We should never accept that trafficking, pimping, or forced labor is ok, ever. Until we, collectively, black, white, native american, latino, whatever, band together in a common cause against these things we will never learn to respect each other and all races of men.