2006-01-17
One of Nadir's Irish Ancestors?
Nadir surely owes much of his brilliance as a musician/songwriter/singer/showman to his ancestors who are legendarily boisterous, loud, pugalistic, lazy, poor, drunken, uncontrollably fertile, athletic dancers, singers, bafoons, musical innovators, who have for centuries been the object of terrible jokes casting them as stupid, as well has having a long history in America of belonging to gangs and behaving curruptly in politics. (Please excuse my violations of parallel sentence structure). These Irish ancestors of Nadir's, like his African ancestors, include both oppressed people, and oppressive people. I wonder how many white kids today in high school can name a single work written by Joyce, Wilde, or Shaw, or who can even provide any of their first names?
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Paul and I have a mutual friend who asked me if I think Paul is a racist. We just had this conversation two days ago. But Paul denies it...
Whatever. The racist commentary (no matter which of my ancestors he is insulting) is not appreciated and is not funny.
Asshole.
Are you defending your Irish ancestors?
I don't understand what is racist here... or more specificially, what could be construed as racist.
How is it racist to point out that at least one group of whites -- Irish -- have had all of the negative charactorizations assigned to them that have more recently been assigned to blacks?
As to your comment that a mutial friend asked if I'm racist, "but Paul denies it": Do I deny what? That a friend asked the question, or that I deny being a racist?
I think that you and the mutual friend are overly and needlessly sensitive, and I am very curious to know how each of you defines the word, "racist."
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