Martin McGuinness ballad

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Like this ballad for Martin McGuinness.
Derry is very proud of Martin McGuinness, so they made a ballad to honor him. The ballad reminds people why many young Irish men like him, fought back against the British sectarian and racist state.
The images remind us who were the aggressors, and of the brutality used by the British crown forces in Ireland.

Anyone else notice in the recent riots in England, on as bad a scale as anything in Derry- the crown never sent in troops to kill people, murder innocent civilians.

Those dark days in Derry and across the North of Ireland were bad and dangerous if you were Irish. No democratic vote, second class housing when you could get it.
It is too easy for those Irish in relative safety and comfort all of their life, to preach to those actually under attack, to condemn anyone who stands up and says no to being pushed around. Pushed around just for being Irish.
There is no doubt, that if ever these same naive and bias Irish critics were in need of protection from a bully they would demand help. If they were attacked by the British state brutal and sectarian crown forces, they would have been encouraging and begging young Irish men to go out and fight back for them.

This is a time of peace, Ireland has had 2o years of peace. Many people can not imagine how anti Irish and intolerant the Northern state was back then. Any emblem of Ireland was banned, the Irish flag even tiny ones prohibited by British apartheid laws .
Martin McGuinness should be proud that he stood up against anti Irish racism in those darker times, against British state sectarianism and racism.
Shameful that most in the Republic did nothing for the Irish under attack in a openly sectarian state, just across the paper border.
Young men like Martin McGuinness held the line.

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