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Article #95: The Irish people are "not" white people? How so?

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I know this is going to be difficult for 9 centuries after the Celtic people had
you to hear (or it may be meaningless to laid claim to the European lands, this is
you), but I ask that you hear me out. the era where the Anglo-Saxon Germanic
Regardless what you may have been taught, tribes (self-declared "white" people)
Celtic people are no more a part of the were invading the European continent (and
white people community than Jews are. In were declaring white supremacy even as
fact, their history as a people is far back as this - if you didn't get
strikingly similar to Jewish history - to conquered and slaughtered by them, then
include the modern inter-societal you were expected to become absorbed into
problems existing today in both nations. the "white" culture and give up your
It's been awhile since I've studied ethnic identity - hence, the eventual
Celtic history, so dates wise I'll creation of the term "WASP - white anglo
attempt to be somewhere in the general saxon protestant").
ball park. But, here is a little of the By this 5th century CE time period, the
history. The Celtic languages (Irish, Celtic people had already given up their
Scottish) are offshoots of African tribal warrior lifestyle for the literary, and
languages. And, before settling in were attempting to educate the warrior
Europe, the Celtic people lived in the tribes that were entering their lands.
Middle East (@ 6 BCE). The Celts were a But, far too many Anglo-Saxons were
powerful group of warrior tribes that coming into the land and there intent was
conquered lands as they moved west to conquer rather than be proselytized.
toward, first, the Greek empire and then, These invading tribes learned what the
eventually, Europe. Somewhere around the Celts had to teach them very well (thus
end of the 4th century BCE, the Celts became proselytized, nevertheless) and,
invaded the Greek empire and originated then, used this very teaching for their
the country now known as Turkey. crusades against Israel, Spain and,
In the Greco-Roman Christian bible the ultimately, (being unsuccessful with
Celts of Turkey were referred to as the those campaigns) against Ireland
Galatians, who the first Christian (unfortunately, they devasted the Celts
missionaries (seven centuries later) and turned them into slaves). To this
tried to Christianize very very day, the Irish and Scottish people
unsuccessfully. The word Galatian in the are fighting for their independence from
Christian bible is a very close the Anglo-Saxons, and it doesn't help
approximation of what the Celts of Turkey that the Irish are still having
called themselves. Having still yet the inter-tribal conflicts like there
nomadic nature, descendants of the ancestors of so many centuries before
Turkish Celts moved on from Turkey and (protestants versus catholics, this is
eventually settled in Europe, finally what they call it now). And, then came
settling in Ireland (@ 350 BCE). It would the modern plague that nearly wiped out
not be until the fall of Rome and Greece the Gaelic speaking Irish natives of
around 5 CE (approximately 900 year Ireland (@ 19 CE). But, fortunately for
later), that the Irish Celts would take the world Celtic culture is on the
an interest in Christian literature. And, rebound, the history is being remembered,
if the Irish people had not taken this and the native languages are still being
literary interest, then Christianity spoken and taught (they now have schools
would have become an extinct religion. for this purpose in Ireland).
For an understanding of this time period,






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