They’re Always After Me Lucky Charms!
Apparently it’s still perfectly fine to make culturally insensitive remarks about the long-suffering Irish race. As an Irish-American of the Kennedy lineage until I’m told otherwise, I take great offense at Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s comments Wednesday while speaking to the American Irish Historical Society.
“Normally when I walk by this building there are a bunch of people that are totally inebriated hanging out the window. I know that’s a stereotype about the Irish, but nevertheless we Jews around the corner think this.”
Oh THAT’S JUST SO FUNNY. It’s not enough that my great-grandmother Nana came over from County Cork to have a better life in Boston where she raised her 19 kids alone after her no-good husband went out one night for a pack of cigarettes and never came back. Now I have to be subjected to cruel hurtful stereotypes.
After Irish leaders awoke from their drunken stupors and stopped building bombs long enough to openly criticize the mayor, he was forced to apologize, saying it was only in “good fun.” Just the same I will abstain from drinking and singing mournful Irish ballads this weekend to prove Bloomberg wrong.
Good luck running for president without the Irish vote.
February 11th, 2011 at 2:39 pm
As a grandson of Patrick Ferry and the father of Sean & Danny, I’ll remember not to include Bloomberg in one of my green beer toasts this St. Paddy’s Day. And my corned beef definitely won’t be prepared “New York deli style.”
February 11th, 2011 at 2:56 pm
the way most irish-americans choose to celebrate the day leaves little room for complaining about pushing stereotypes. this is self-inflicted, imho. st. patrick’s day is a racist holiday, and irish-americans are the worst offenders.
//part irish & boycotter of st. patrick’s day for two decades.
February 11th, 2011 at 4:12 pm
The root of the problem is inking. You know, drinking, stinking, not thinking, in the pinking, not to mention winking, blinking, kinking, finking, and linking.
February 11th, 2011 at 4:43 pm
@Jed: Racist? What about the black Irish? Can’t they drink too?
February 11th, 2011 at 6:16 pm
er, ethnist?
February 11th, 2011 at 7:14 pm
We scots irish will drink with Bloomberg or most anybody else – as long as they will pick up the tab…..
February 12th, 2011 at 10:55 am
Firemen rush into a bar on fire, only to find an Irishman sitting there, sipping away.
One fireman asks the Irishman, “, How did the fire start?”…. the Irishman says, ” I don’t know, it was already burning when I got here.”
/I’m alive. , but really dealing with serious and painful issues healthwise, and just too worn out to read or post. Yall think about me.
//Eileen, so do you *drive* an Affinity, or is is something you caught? I know lotsa doctors.
February 15th, 2011 at 8:11 am
So, he “went out one night for a pack of cigarettes and never came back” eh? Who knew cigarettes could kill so fast? Or was he a stereotypical Iris philanderer?
February 15th, 2011 at 10:25 am
I’ve been known to cheat on other bulbs as well.