Prometheus 6

Irish immigrant were used to undermine Black economic progress.

Arboleda: One of the things that you can see if you understand the immigration pattern of Irish, Italians, eastern Europeans coming into the United States and the ways in which, let's use the Irish for example, they were pitted against African Americans. The Irish are sometimes referred to as the "blacks of Europe ." When they came to the United States , they moved up in status.

The displacement of African-American workers at the time of the Irish immigration was rampant in the Northeast. Folks who had moved up to the North from the South lost their jobs because the preferred white workers came in. This is a pattern that repeats itself, and we have to understand that history to keep the perspective that we need to come up with some solutions.

And the day after the Supreme Corporate restores the seperate part of seperate but equal, a little town in Ireland elects the country's first black mayor. An immigrant from Nigeria.

Which has nothing to do with me at all. But for a moment there the irony fumes almost got to me.