Racial tensions of 2016 and the myth of Irish slavery

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14. Neither were the signs omnipresent to the degree

of mythic proportions in living memory. What I find interesting has been the prevasiveness-of-the-sign debate online, totally dismissing Prof. Jensen's well researched paper. To his critics, seeing one or a few signs was enough to foster the belief of rampant descrimintation; up until the 1960s, as one critic cites. Another deflection to me to nullify the paper as well as the history of AA in America to this day.

He ends with
Did the Irish come to America in the face of intense hostility, symbolized by the omnipresent sign, "Help Wanted: No Irish Need Apply"? The hard evidence suggests that on the whole Irish immigrants as employees were welcomed by employers; their entry was never restricted; and no one proposed they be excluded [End Page 418] like the Chinese, let alone sent back. Instead of firing Catholics to make way for Protestant workers, most employers did exactly the opposite. That is, the dominant culture actively moved to create new jobs specifically for the unskilled Irish workers.