Talk:To Hell or Barbados

This article is another example of the denigration of the Irish experience by the dominant culture. The Irish genocide by the regicide Cromwell and the English Parliament is a well documented reprehensible historic fact in the history of the British Isles. I thought this book was an accurate rendition of what I already knew about this atrocity and full of detail derived from historical records that made the material more cogent. Discussing the Irish genocide takes nothing away from the history of African enslavement, abuse and genocide, and in fact adds to the context in which it occurred. It has been argued that the experience the English gained in decimating and colonizing the Irish served as models and training for the subsequent genocide of native Americans and the enslavement of Africans. Moreover, the history and research recounted in the book in no way supports the idea that the Irish history in Barbados can be used to rebuke African-Americans for the troubles they have had in assimilating. The book recounts the current status of a small remaining group of ethnic Irish in Barbados. Their lack of culture, education, social mobility and integration demonstrates what happens to a group of people ripped from the context of their parent culture and suppressed and abused for generations. Coreillygreen (talk) 01:50, 22 January 2018 (UTC)