Hogan even sees a distortion of Irish history that damages the actual history of oppression. “There is no need to exaggerate what our ancestors endured. . . . This refusal to differentiate between indentured servitude and racialized perpetual hereditary chattel slavery via the transatlantic slave trade, only feeds white supremacist myths.”84 This myth is a pernicious one that is used to create a false equivalency to support anti-Black racist claims that white people experienced slavery too and emerged from it successfully and without complaint, while descendants of enslaved Africans claim
...more
