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PoindexterOglethorpe

(25,855 posts)
4. Why did the sons of Irish people need to pass for white????
Thu May 19, 2022, 09:20 PM
May 2022

Unless great grandfather was a person of color.

All four of my grandparents came from Ireland, and trust me, I am very, very white.

When I was a little girl, the elderly aunts would look at me and say, "Ahhh, she has the map of Ireland on here face." Say it with a brogue, and you get the idea. It wasn't until my first trip to Ireland that I understood, as every single person there looked exactly like my brothers and my sisters and my cousins.

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