It was an Irish immigrant named David Goodman Croly, who, according to Harvard Professor Werner Sollors, coined the term “miscegenation” and who perpetrated “the Great Miscegenation Hoax of 1863.” Croly was the author of a phony pamphlet that exposed a plan by Lincoln’s party to invade northern bedrooms with black women. Lincoln was forced to defend the party against the charge.According to The Journal of Negro History:
“The pamphlet claimed that the goal of Abraham Lincoln and the Republican Party was the ‘interbreeding’ of ‘White’and African-Americans in the United States. Many people thought the pamphlet, Miscegenation: The Theory of the Blending of the Races, Applied to the American White Man and Negro, was written by abolitionists who supported the idea. In February 17, 1864, a Democratic congressman denounced the pamphlet in a speech delivered to the House of Representatives. He claimed it represented the social philosophy of the Republican Party. The actual authors of the pamphlet were an editor and reporter from the New York World, a pro-Democratic Party newspaper. They wrote it to use stir up racist attitudes among White voters as part of the newspaper’s opposition to Abraham Lincoln’s reelection campaign.”
Contrast McGuirk’s reactionary bile with the views of Gerry Adams, leader of the political arm of Sinn Fein, who told a U. C. Berkeley audience about the alliance between the Irish and blacks, who worked on southern plantations, being rent by slave masters, who turned them against each other. When Gerry Adams visited the United States he stopped off to see the late Rosa Parks to thank her for inspiring the Irish movement. McGuirk is not the only one who is not in touch with his heritage. Imus admirer, Chris Matthews, another Irish-American who gets to comment on race more than African-Americans, confessed that he admires Rudy Giuliani because he brought ” a little fascism” to New York. Of course it was black and Hispanic men who were the primary victims of this “little fascism.”