The Irish people are "not" white people? How so?
I know this is going to be difficult for you to hear (or it may
be meaningless to you), but I ask that you hear me out.
Regardless what you may have been taught, Celtic people are no
more a part of the white people community than Jews are. In
fact, their history as a people is strikingly similar to Jewish
history - to include the modern inter-societal problems existing
today in both nations. It's been awhile since I've studied
Celtic history, so dates wise I'll attempt to be somewhere in
the general ball park. But, here is a little of the history. The
Celtic languages (Irish, Scottish) are offshoots of African
tribal languages. And, before settling in Europe, the Celtic
people lived in the Middle East (@ 6 BCE). The Celts were a
powerful group of warrior tribes that conquered lands as they
moved west toward, first, the Greek empire and then, eventually,
Europe. Somewhere around the end of the 4th century BCE, the
Celts invaded the Greek empire and originated the country now
known as Turkey.
In the Greco-Roman Christian bible the Celts of Turkey were
referred to as the Galatians, who the first Christian
missionaries (seven centuries later) tried to Christianize very
unsuccessfully. The word Galatian in the Christian bible is a
very close approximation of what the Celts of Turkey called
themselves. Having still yet the nomadic nature, descendants of
the Turkish Celts moved on from Turkey and eventually settled in
Europe, finally settling in Ireland (@ 350 BCE). It would not be
until the fall of Rome and Greece around 5 CE (approximately 900
year later), that the Irish Celts would take an interest in
Christian literature. And, if the Irish people had not taken
this literary interest, then Christianity would have become an
extinct religion. For an understanding of this time period, 9
centuries after the Celtic people had laid claim to the European
lands, this is the era where the Anglo-Saxon Germanic tribes
(self-declared "white" people) were invading the European
continent (and were declaring white supremacy even as far back
as this - if you didn't get conquered and slaughtered by them,
then you were expected to become absorbed into the "white"
culture and give up your ethnic identity - hence, the eventual
creation of the term "WASP - white anglo saxon protestant").
By this 5th century CE time period, the Celtic people had
already given up their warrior lifestyle for the literary, and
were attempting to educate the warrior tribes that were entering
their lands. But, far too many Anglo-Saxons were coming into the
land and there intent was to conquer rather than be
proselytized. These invading tribes learned what the Celts had
to teach them very well (thus became proselytized, nevertheless)
and, then, used this very teaching for their crusades against
Israel, Spain and, ultimately, (being unsuccessful with those
campaigns) against Ireland (unfortunately, they devasted the
Celts and turned them into slaves). To this very day, the Irish
and Scottish people are fighting for their independence from the
Anglo-Saxons, and it doesn't help that the Irish are still
having inter-tribal conflicts like there ancestors of so many
centuries before (protestants versus catholics, this is what
they call it now). And, then came the modern plague that nearly
wiped out the Gaelic speaking Irish natives of Ireland (@ 19
CE). But, fortunately for the world Celtic culture is on the
rebound, the history is being remembered, and the native
languages are still being spoken and taught (they now have
schools for this purpose in Ireland).