As I step into the fourth week of this class, I realized how oblivious I am to the situations around me and how uneducated I am about this country\u2019s politics. I grew up in a home were politics were rarely discussed and basically avoided. During the first couple of class discussions concerning political history, I had to fall back on my prior knowledge, which was little to nothing. Although I come to class with very little knowledge on the subject, I am very interested in the discussion of slavery\/servants and their impact on today\u2019s movements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After listening to Dr. Reilly\u2019s lecture, I became interested in the topic of \u201cIrish Slavery\u201d and its impact on today’s society. In our discussion, Dr. Reilly explained that after the Black Lives Matter movement began, people of Irish descent spoke out about their ancestors and how they also suffered from slavery. After that comment, I was hit with a wall of confusion. Are Irish descents using their ancestor\u2019s servitude as a tactic to say they are still oppressed? That question as stuck with me since Monday\u2019s lecture, but the answer has a lot of grey area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After reading a classmate\u2019s blog post last week, the idea of \u201cperspective\u201d stayed with me and contributes to this grey area answer. In her blog post, she explains that as part Irish she had never heard of her ancestors being \u201cslaves\u201d, until Dr. Reilly\u2019s reading. She stated that her grandparents hadn\u2019t acknowledged or taught her about this timeline in her family\u2019s history and that it was due to their perspective on the subject. This idea of perspective, I believe, holds true to many different movements and disagreements in the US. The Irish people today are using their \u201cservant\u201d ancestors to argue that they are still oppressed and this is impacted by their individual perspective and the tensions of today’s movements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
As I step into the fourth week of this class, I realized how oblivious I am to the situations around me and how uneducated I am about this country\u2019s politics. I grew up in a home were politics were rarely discussed and basically avoided. During the first couple of class discussions concerning political history, I … <\/p>\n