Irish Discrimination In America

Discrimination is an injustice that is evident in many historical events. One such event is based on the Irish-immigration, which was around the 1840’s and many Irish came to America because of the potato famine and those who did come to America were treated as slaves. To begin with the Irish had to face racial discrimination. They were racially discriminated “In fact, some scientists believed that Irish were, like Africans, more closely related to apes than to other Europeans, and in some cases in the U.S., Irish immigrants were classified as Blacks, not Whites” (Negative Stereotypes of The Irish). The Irish were white, but instead they were considered black and many of them were even treated like slaves or others were believed to be just like African American slaves or worse. Irish …show more content…
I do not see why this would justify why Americans could discriminate against them after all if they would work for anything, it must have meant that they needed financial help or that they were already facing enough difficulties and they did not need more with all the discrimination. They also had to face discrimination when applying for jobs for example, many places had signs that said they needed employees but that Irish couldn’t apply. This is really cruel because after all they had already faced the Irish still had to come to America and still struggle like they had come in hope but instead faced discrimination. The Irish really need jobs in order to be able to support their family, but Americans seemed to go on with their day with all the nonchalance in the world, that is despicable. Why would they instead not try and see in the Irish’s point of view what they were facing? Although this seemed to have occurred long ago discrimination has not ended yet and it still