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[Ninurta]

So now we know, Facebook hates faggots, I seem to remember the dogs name was Digger with an N.
Interesting thing, the British army called the people of northern Ireland during the "troubles"  "White Niggers"

In America, too. After the Civil War, Irishmen were referred to as "the new niggers" or "the niggers of the British Empire". Not sure why. For a few hundred years before the Civil War, Irish were "transported" to America and were often sold into slavery the same as any African after chattel slavery was established here. They suffered the same penalties as "runaways" if they managed to escape.

Matter of fact, one of my own ancestors got in a spot of trouble for "stealing" an Irish lass from the Custis family in Virginia in the 1600's. Evidently her mother had sold her to the Custis's. He was a young man, not long resident in the colonies, and apparently found himself in need of a wife, and it so happened that she was more or less available if he had the testicular fortitude to take her from her owners.

The Custis family, and it seems the sheriff and other government entities, were not amused.

Yup, one of my several-greats-back grannies was a "liberated" slave, even if only an Irish one. The brash young lad's name was Christopher Nutter, and he and his new bride made a life for themselves a little outside the reach of the Virginia colony (in the Maryland Colony), among the Indians, trading with them and eventually becoming the official interpreter for the Maryland Colony to the Nanticoke Indians.

I reckon that's one way to escape from slavery - surround yourself with angry Indians... I wonder if I can demand "reparations" now, or if just the descendants of black slaves are special enough?

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