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taramaclaywasaterf · 5 years ago

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I’m literally half Irish. My grandfather moved here when he was 14, and I don’t know much about my grandmother besides the fact that she moved here in her 20s. Do you really think I don’t understand that white people can face discrimination based on ethnicity? Did you SEE what the English did to the Irish? Did you see what Americans did to the Irish when we first started moving here? It still ain’t racism. White people hurting other white people based on where we live/lived isn’t racist. It’s xenophobia and prejudice.

When I say I hate white people i mean all whites people, including white gay people and white women and white disabled people. Being of some other kind of minority doesn’t make y’all any less white and I still hate you

#(update: apparently he moved here when he was 12???)#(idk i just texted my cousin whose the only person i talk to on my moms side to see if she knew anything about our grandfather...#and she just said that all she knows is that she thinks he moved here when he was 12)#we dont have the same grandmother so i cant ask about her #but thats a whole other mess of family bullshit ill save for another day #but the jist is that i didnt know my cousins grandma wasnt my grandma too until i got my dna done #which avtually explained a lot of the dynamics in how she treated me vs how she treated my cousin because that woman was fucking evil to me #but we ARE half cousins!#and weve never known our grandfather at all #like we didnt even know his name until about a year ago #and so ive been slowly trying to put the pieves together and find out who my grandmother is #i found an old engagement announcement in a newspaper archive with my grandfathers bame and the name of a woman who wasnt my fake-grandma #which was dated a couple years before my fake grandma and ny real grandpa met #so i thought maybe it was my real grandma and looked further ibto it #they never actually got married or anythint so i assume the engagement ended badly but they did have my mother together #i searched her name and found an old thing from like ellis island or some shit documenting a woman of the same/age #which said when she immigrated from ireland to the us!#which adds up because im like 46% irish or some shit #i still havent founf any blood relatives through her on my dna website thing which is weird #so i kinda rhink she mightve died soon after she left my grandpa??? but i cant find a death certificate online so the whole things so odd #anyway yeah thats the story of my mom’s side of the family lmao #my dad’s side is basically all just italian with a disturbing amount of mafia ties including frank sinatra so like...#not that im like related to frank sinatra just that he was uh very close with my great grandfather #and he’d spend alot of time in the backroom of my great grandfather’s little hole-in-the-wall resturant #but when my grandma was little she used to sit on frank’s lap and hed sing to her so thats cool lol #if its not obvious i much prefer my dads side of the family lol

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