Somali's are the new Irish Catholics'
The refugees seeking haven in America were poor and disease-ridden. They threatened to take jobs away from Americans and strain welfare budgets. They practiced an alien religion and pledged allegiance to a foreign leader. They were bringing with them crime. They were accused of being rapists.
These undesirables were Irish.www.history.com

#31 | Posted by Scotty at 2025-12-29 01:45 PM | Reply | Flag: "History Repeats Itself"

In the antebellum South, the Irish Catholics were considered below plantation slaves, sitting at the bottom of the feudal socio-economic pyramid.

Plantation slaves were expensive to buy and maintain, so blacks weren't used as labor to dig canals, work the mines, build roads or buildings, because they could get hurt or killed or lose their ability to procreate in an accident.

That's a lost investment for the rich white slaveowner.

But an Irish Catholic laborer in the South was paid pennies for his toils and if he died at the worksite, a pauper's burial was overseen by a priest (if any were around) and that was that. Simply hire another Irishman off the boat.

Life was so bad for the Irish that plantation slaves made fun of each other with jokes like "Don't be Josephat's Irishman."

"The Irish: Slaves by Another Name"