In what other culture is it politically correct to go out and get completely bombed as a tribute to another ethnicity? In no other culture would it be acceptable to sell t-shirts that say “drink till your [name of ethnicity]”, but t-shirts that say ‘Happy St. Patrick’s Day: Get shit-faced and blame it on the Irish’ and “I’m not Irish but, I’m drunk like the Irish” are perfectly acceptable and bear no interference from anti- defamation organizations or committees. Could you imagine if there we’re t-shirts displayed in a window that said, “Be Jewish save your money”, the public would be outraged! But for some reason the public stays quiet when it comes to the Irish. It’s as if equating Irish with drunkenness is supposed to be a positive thing.

I mean, how the hell do t-shirt companies get away with using racist stereotyping at a time when related attacks against other ethnic groups would be condemned outright as infringements on human rights? The answer is problematical, and speaks to the manner in which Irishness in North America is interpreted as both a category of indifference, as well as a brand of white ethnicity that is considered acceptable to target in a way that other ethnicities, as well as the community at large, would not and, more importantly, should not tolerate.

Many North Americans of Irish descent (like myself whose father and mother came from Ireland) have been cut off from their ethnicity and heritage through assimilation (a process of forcing Irish North Americans to overlook who they are and where they came from) and colonization, and as a result have forgotten/not learned of their roots and have, as a consequence, accepted images of drunken Irish buffoonery. 

It wasn’t so long ago that it was acceptable to post signs around the U.K. (in fact it was merely 30 years ago) that read, “No Blacks, No Irish, No Dogs”, or “Irish Need Not Apply”.  Nor was it long ago that Irish people were considered to be “ethnically inferior”.

Many people also forget about the Irish slave trade, which happened from 1625 onward when the Irish were sold, pure and simple, as slaves. They were captured and originally turned over to English shippers to be sold for their profit. Because the profits were so great, generally 900 pounds of cotton for a slave, the Irish slave trade became an industry in which everyone involved (except the Irish) had a share of the profits.

And presently the Irish are fighting for the right to speak their own language – Irish Gaelic – (under the Language Act of 2003) which was turned down by the DUP’s Minister for Culture Edwin Poots, who believes that, although more than 80% of Northern Ireland is fluent in the language, that it is not an important enough language to make official. Not only that but the Commission for Racial Equality has urged employers to include the Irish as a category in their ethnic minority monitoring programs due to numerous reports over British employers discriminating against employee’s and potential employees over their Irish ethnicity. The CRE cite examples such as a factory worker who was “faced with derogatory comments about his Irish origin nearly every
day” and then sacked when he complained, and a potential employee who was refused an interview because she was “Irish and therefore unreliable”.

Due to our past and our present struggle, Irish people world wide need to stand up and be outraged about the continuing barrage of reductionist and dehumanizing representations of what it means to be Irish. This St. Patrick’s day we should pour out our green beer, take off that racist t-shirt and embrace our culture.

Dia dhuit Cad é mar atá tú? (Good Morning and how are you..) I truely belive in keeping the Irish traditions alive... and Tabhair 'om póg, is Éireannach mé" (kiss me Im Irish, Connacht dialect)Take Care

Happy Easter.. to you Wendy.. and a share..

I read a very interesting email about Saint Patrick.. I hope you don't mind me sharing it here with you.. :)

Patrick, the Great Missionary to Ireland

by Aimee Herd : Mar 17, 2008 : William Federer – WorldNetDaily

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=59126

"…there the Lord opened the sense of my unbelief that I might at last remember my sins and be converted with all my heart to the Lord my God …who comforted me as would a father his son." –St. Patrick

Having lived in the New York City area, and now in the Pacific NW, I know that while St. Patrick's Day is an extremely popular holiday, many don't know of Patrick's history, and the fact that what really should be celebrated is the extraordinary way that God used him to evangelize a mostly pagan Ireland.

An article in WorldNetDaily follows Patrick's life from the time he was born in Britain between A.D. 387 and A.D. 415 to his death on March 17th, A.D. 461.

As a teen, Patrick was captured and served a Druid master in Ireland. He wrote in his Confession, "…after I came to Ireland, every day I had to tend sheep. The love of God and His fear came to me more and more. …In a single day, I would say as many as a hundred prayers, and almost as many in the night, and this even when I was staying in the woods and on the mountains; and I used to get up for prayer before daylight, through snow, through frost, through rain."

Eventually Patrick escaped, but later in life, he wrote of a dream he had that called him back to Ireland with the Gospel.

"In the depth of the night, I saw a man named Victoricus coming as if from Ireland, with innumerable letters, and he gave me one, and while I was reading I thought I heard the voice of those near the western sea call out: 'Please, holy boy, come and walk among us again.' Their cry pierced my very heart, and I could read no more, and so I awoke."

The WND report states that "Pat

returned to Ireland, confronted the Druids, converted chieftains and used the three-leaf clover (shamrock) to teach the Trinity."

Although he faced life-threatening circumstances, Patrick wrote that "the Lord delivered me. ...Daily I expect murder, fraud, or captivity, or whatever it may be; but I fear none of these things because of the promises of Heaven."

He reportedly baptized 120,000 and founded 300 churches, and that is certainly reason to celebrate the hand of God working through a British man we know simply as St. Patrick.

All that you ever needed to know about St Patrick!! :)
Love from Sharon

Irish I have known are proud of their abilities, like drinking green beer.

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