Black History Month Ireland, why?

Your post is full of assumptions, simplistic either/or thinking, and weird misattributions. 'Posts' is accurate, strictly speaking; it's also a real stretch, if you mean to imply that I contribute regularly on race or so-called "culture war" topics. I rarely do, because these highly charged topics attract highly charged people. Plus, binary discourses based on simplistic categories tend to have predictable outcomes. I do have a few minutes for the exceptionally low hanging fruit however :)

How do you believe race is 'practically meaningless' while also seeing racism existing?

Racism exists because stupid and evil people insist on thinking about people using racial, generalized terms instead of treating people as individuals. Was it this thread where someone described a kid being spat on outside school? I can't even imagine the level of intellectual degeneracy it takes to do something like that. It occurs because of vulgar modes of thinking and you don't have to be any sort of intellectual, real or barstool, to be aware of this.

Supporting those who have experienced racism

Who said people who have experienced racism shouldn't be supported? I think you're addressing stuff to me that would be better addressed to others, TBH.

Racism is always going to exist as long as the differences in race remain important. Any movement that seeks to distinguish people as being different (or needing support) because of their race (as opposed to individual circumstances) is guaranteeing that race remains an important distinction, and therefore is guaranteeing that racism continues. If anything, they're encouraging racism to grow, because as a result of their favortism, other groups will be diminished... because equality is not the goal here. If it was, then, race wouldn't be the focus.

The problem with most modern race movements is that they favor "reverse discrimination", under the guise of protecting the disadvantaged racial group, except that simply justifies the logic of many racist groups, because to elevate one group over another (under the aim of protecting them), you have to make another racial group disadvantaged based on race.

When you pick a job, saying that only Black people can apply, then you're discriminating against those who are not Black. It's an unfair advantage, and guarantees that others (especially those who were excluded but wanted that job) will judge Black people based on their skin colour not on the skills or ability that they bring to the position.

Those involved in anti-racism initiatives generally have little interest in diminishing racism, otherwise they wouldn't be advocating these kinds of measures. It would make far more sense to remove race entirely as a consideration, basing the problems of their lives on their economic status, education, etc, rather than on their race... because helping those from poor backgrounds or those with a lack of education, is accepted enough that few people would ever have a problem with it. In the end, it removes race as a distinguishing factor, and the individual circumstances of their place in society, becomes the most relevant... which is a far better state of affairs.

Simple question. You said that minorities are facing racism daily. Do you believe that accusing the majority of racism towards minorities decreases racism?

Not picking out individual cases of actual racism and dealing with those. Rather the accusations by anti-racism groups who have called Irish people, in general, racist.. or that White people are racist...

I have lived as a minority race in a variety of countries, and I'm aware of what it's like to be on the receiving end of racism. I also know that it really comes down to individuals. Even in China, where there is an approved culture towards treating "foreigners" a certain way, it really does come down to individuals rather than an entire people.

And yet, when we look at these anti-racist groups, the accusations don't tend to relate to individuals, except where those individual circumstances are used as basis for blaming the whole.

Being racist in 2021 is not the same as being racist in 1990. The definition has been expanded far beyond it's traditional meaning..

Yes they do too but its about maximising profit. Spend the same on 1 advert targetting 50 000 vs 3 million potential customers. Its all to do with maximises profit not rascism

Even then, I don't quite get the logic. At that time in our history, Irish people left Ireland and didn't return. Unless they were part of the British establishment, so, I suppose it's possible that some Irish lad headed off to Africa, and hooked up with a native, bringing back their mixed race children... but even that is an extreme stretch considering the attitude towards race and culture of the time. I'm sure there were mixed race children, but I suspect they were left behind in Africa, rather than facing the stigma that would have existed at that time.

In any case, though, the claim is regarding a number of Black men in Ireland (not mixed race) who apparently were present at the time of the rising.. which doesn't make sense, considering that Ireland was an agricultural province, for the British, and not somewhere they'd be sending people from Africa to. The same with the British families who had properties or businesses in Ireland, there wouldn't have been the cultural climate for such a thing. Such kind of behavior would have seen most families ostracized for their contempt of the natural order.

Which leaves these Black people coming to Ireland on their own... and the simple question would be why? (and how?). When there is Britain or France nearby providing a much larger population to be lost among, and less risk of facing the prejudice that would have been common at the time in the countryside. Even Dublin was what we'd consider a big town in those times.. so...

I dunno.. it makes little logical sense considering what we know of that period.