Agree totally – did an interesting course on black history many years ago and I’ve got to agree with your sentiment. What I could never get though was why some many black Caribbeans, who were often forced to take the name of their ‘owners’ or overseers, have Irish names.

Now lets head back a century or two to things punishable by death in Ireland -

educating native catholic children
practising catholicism
speaking the Irish language
owing a weapon
owing a horse(!)

The above happened no where else in the British Empire

Why were the Brits so mental towards the Irish?
The Irish (native/gaels etc etc) were in the eyes of the British commited to letting the Holy Roman Empire use the country as a landing for an invasion of Britain. This fear resulted in the worst case of British behaviour in their preety shabby colonial history:

A quick look at how they tried to deal with this threat posed the native gaels included;

Ethnic Cleansing east of the Shannon River (that sucked)
Forced removal to the west coast (it’s barren out there)
Forced removal to Barbados and Montesurrat as the initial wave of slaves to the newly colonised Caribbean (no sunscreen)
Plantations (thats when you kill people and put your people on their land)

Ireland has a smaller popualtion than it did in 1840 – it and Rwanda are the only documented countries in the northern hemisphere with this instance

For the Irish that benefited and were members of British establishment when they were actively colonising – see the Protestant Ascendancy (descendant of British planters who saw themselves as colonial Britons in Ireland and were given the right to ownership of the country from the native gaels by the British Empire) – native catholics were banned from the being a part of the Irish parliment until the mid 19th century

Scotland became a fully paind up member of the British Empire in the 17th century – Ireland was merely Britains closest colony. And British historians agree was essentially used as a lab to test colonial practices worldwide.