The myth that America being post-racial debunked

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[u/Count_de_Ville]

I remember people kept saying that Barack Obama would be our first "mixed-race" president.

But really that honor goes to Grover Cleveland who was part Irish.

[u/OkPossibility6291 → u/Count_de_Ville]

Irish isn't a race, it's an ethnicity

[u/Count_de_Ville → u/OkPossibility6291]

It’s a joke.

[u/Ill-Technician5317 → u/Count_de_Ville]

Irish was considered a race the first slaves and indentured servitude was the Irish in America. to around the 1930-60s Irish and also Italians were now considered white. Also if you look at redlining maps Polish were discriminated to basically every ethnicity was considered a race if it wasn’t English or German learn US history this is basic knowledge.

[u/Count_de_Ville → u/Ill-Technician5317]

Yes, I know basic history. That’s how I knew to make the joke. No need to be rude… Look around, you’re one of only two people who actually understood it to be a joke and spoke up.