With all respect to brother Connolly, would "us" include women? Africans, native Americans, all colonialism's victims?
What was taken from Ireland mostly was Irish working people used as slave labor in the forsaken land of the Anglo-colonies. The resource of Ireland were the healthiest and most powerful of Irish young people.
In Africa there barely was nothing left behind for them to take, and indirectly they are still taking today, the English, the French, the Dutch, ..
All those palaces and castles in Spain and Portugal, literally have bones of native Americans in them. And all of MAN-kind's creations were built by enslaving women.
#women #africa #nativeamericans #latinAmerica #colonialism #chiapas
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