Tyson Yunkaporta
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752 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2020
last heard 10 Jun
Tyson Yunkaporta’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You get that the first instance of that would have been... Because when Irish people moved to New York first, there was actually quite a lot of solidarity with African-American communities.
We were in the same communities.
Tat.
Tap dancing is literally a mixture of African shuffle dancing and Irish dancing, two things together.
There's even some African-American words like you dig, you dig me, you understand.
The Irish for understand is digging, digging to.
So we have that early kind of mixing of cultures.
And then what happens is the thing called the New York draft riots, which was about in the 1850s or early 1860s where...
Irish people are being conscripted to fight in the Civil War.
And when the Irish people ask, why are you sending me to fight in the Civil War?
They say, well, to free the slaves.
And then the Irish people went, oh, I'm going to hang my black neighbour.
So the Irish en masse then committed huge violence against the African-American community.
But then the posh Brits loved it.
And then the Irish all of a sudden
Oh, you're like us.
You don't like those black people either.
Okay, Paddy, maybe you can join the club.
And then we became the police.
Then we became the fucking police.
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