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St Partricks Day Origin was in Ireland as a religious celebration. Black people get castigated for the "African" in African-American. We are told that we should be just "American". Hence, why are not the Irish told to jettison their link to their Irish roots and past...as opposed to it being embraced and celebrated?
Can you remember any day other than St. Pat's Day, a person of even partial Irish decent calls themselves Irish? I can't and I have an Irish, many generations back, ancestory.
St Partricks Day Origin was in Ireland as a religious celebration. Black people get castigated for the "African" in African-American. We are told that we should be just "American". Hence, why are not the Irish told to jettison their link to their Irish roots and past...as opposed to it being embraced and celebrated?
St Pat's is indeed a religious celebration. And like Christmas, Easter, Halloween, San Genarro, etc, it has morphed into something celebratory and secular.
Last time I looked (last month) Black History Month was still there and still going strong.
Grow up and stop whining like a baby. Ain't nobody castigating you.
Can you remember any day other than St. Pat's Day, a person of even partial Irish decent calls themselves Irish? I can't and I have Irish partial ancestory.
Hell yeah....I hear about "the Irish" all the time when the issue of blacks in America is talked about. We are always then told the tribulations of "Irish Americans". I mean....if we were truly all "Americans" then there would have been no means of creating a distinction with a difference....as in the case of Irish American or African American.
Hell yeah....I hear about "the Irish" all the time when the issue of blacks in America is talked about. We are always then told the tribulations of "Irish Americans".
Ok. I won't dispute your experience. However, mine is different.
Ok. I won't dispute your experience. However, mine is different.
Not only that....I grew up in the 70-80's in the Midwest and whites refereed to other whites as Polish, Irish, Italian, dutch...ect. They had jokes for every white ethnic too
African Americans have to defend the celebration of black history month or anything "African", yet, why do the Irish in America get their "Irish" day so widely accepted? Whatever happened to just being "American"...when it comes to the Irish.
African Americans have to defend the celebration of black history month or anything "African", yet, why do the Irish in America get their "Irish" day so widely accepted? Whatever happened to just being "American"...when it comes to the Irish.
There is nothing inherently wrong with people celebrating their heritage. The only problem is when others complain when you do the same or if you get upset with others for not joining in.
African Americans have to defend the celebration of black history month or anything "African", yet, why do the Irish in America get their "Irish" day so widely accepted? Whatever happened to just being "American"...when it comes to the Irish.
Ask your lord and savior Dear Leader, Mr Black Irish himself
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Ain't nobody castigating you.
