I'm mixed race. My dad was Black, the descendants of stolen Africans. My mother was white and of Irish/British extraction. In fact my great grandmother, Theresa Acton came off the boat from Donegal to Canada.

You have nothing to apologize for. You were born as you were, as I was, as we all were. All anyone can ask of you is awareness and advocacy for dignity and respect for all. You seem to be there.

The boss you had seemed to me to be an angry person intent on revenge because you were a kid. That's not fair. I'm sorry you had to go through that.

Side note: I travelled to Ireland and spent 2 weeks in and around Dublin/Houth for my 40th birthday and the people were the most welcoming, lovely, accepting folks I ever met. The day before my birthday, I met 3 friends on Millenium Parkway when a woman in a purple velour tracksuit stole a bottle of wine from their table. That incident created decades-long friendships. Nobody cared I was mixed race.

Let's remember history, the Irish have had their share of prejudice.

As someone on both sides, white privilege is a thing. It's real. But punishing individual white people isn't the way to address it. I'm sorry, again that you had to deal with that.