Dear Irish Americans,
I’m going to take a moment to thank you guys for the great stuff you’ve given to all of us Irish folk, like provide shelter for our refugees and economic migrants over the years, or funds to social causes like community projects and the RA, or the substantial amount you contribute to our tourist industry over the years. Hey, we even largely enjoyed the first Boondock Saints movie, Forrest Griffin, that one song by The Dropkick Murphys and that one song by House of Pain but there’s something we need to discuss and it’s not about you guys ordering Irish coffees after our bar staff have cleaned down the coffee machines, or the horrendously named “An Irish Car bomb”, I mean we don’t order two B52s, set them on fire and call them the Twin Towers and if you can stop doing that, great but there’s something a little bit more pressing.
I know some of you might even be surprised that I am on the internet, rather than on a horse and cart on a hovel in a bog (like in Tony Hawk’s Pro Horse and Cart Skater), but we do have the good ol’ fashioned world wide web. So, when we see the confederate flag, as in the one adopted in 1905 (some forty years after that racist little rebellion failed) with captions like “Why aren’t Irish Americans in an outrage? They were the first slaves. Bet most people don’t even know that.’ You see this quote here, it’s wrong on so many levels. I…
