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1:06:04
You get me all mixed up.
1:06:06
You know about these things
I know nothing about.

1:06:09
How do I know what you're trying to do?
1:06:11
How do I know you aren't
a Jewish person yourself?

1:06:14
- Something.
- You don't.

1:06:17
But would it make any difference?
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Well...
1:06:27
...all right, Leroy.
1:06:32
But I'd like to tell you one more thing.
Then you can go, if you want to.

1:06:38
About 100 years ago, in Ireland...
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...the potato crop failed. It was serious.
1:06:47
Lot of the Irish came
over here. Immigrants.

1:06:51
Their talk was different.
Like yours, Leroy.

1:06:54
Their religion was different.
They were Catholics, most of them.

1:06:58
They settled down in different places.
They liked it here.

1:07:03
One of them I knew about.
He'd been a farmer.

1:07:06
Stayed in Philadelphia.
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He worked and saved to buy some land.
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He thought of himself as
just another man living in America.

1:07:16
But suddenly one day he looked around
and saw that something had happened.

1:07:20
It frightened him.
1:07:22
Fear and hatred of all Irish Catholics had
developed and spread like a terrible disease.

1:07:29
He saw that he wasn't
an American anymore.

1:07:32
He was a dirty Irish Mick.
1:07:34
A priest lover. A spy from Rome.
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A foreigner trying to rob men of jobs.
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He didn't understand.
1:07:45
He didn't know what to do.
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He didn't do much of anything.
He couldn't.

1:07:51
But one day, when a bunch of men
attacked his parish priest on the street...

1:07:56
...he waded in to help the priest.
1:07:58
He managed to get him inside a store.

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