You are missing a key point. Visibility. An Irishman only stands out as an Irishman if he has an accent or if his name is very Irish sounding. After a few generations, his heirs will blend more fully into the white establishment.

Who cares how many slaves blacks owned? What is your point? That it was okay for whites to own slaves because blacks did? Or blacks are degenerates for enslaving their own people? I how this relates to or detracts from the validity of my point. The tone of your post is that blacks are inferior to whites and they are soley responsible for their lower social and economic status in America. I am not suggesting that blacks have no responsibility for their own welfare but I also believe it would be naive to suggest that the playing field is level or that their aren't structural impediments. It isn't. Whites have dominated the culture here for the last 250 years. Blacks have only enjoyed equal legal status within our life time.