My Irish ancestors who came over here would disagree with you that they were treated better than others. And since they got their vindication when Kennedy was elected, the same applies to the blacks now that Obama is in office. It just shows - as does his wife making $300,000 a year in a hospital in a non-medical job - that any black can now succeed. So it's only fair that every group that was ever mistreated get a month, or nobody gets one.

The country as a whole didn't own slaves. That was limited to a very few states. Remember, in most states, it was illegal. I don't think it was legal in only certain states to discriminate against the Irish.image

But it still doesn't explain why we have months devoted to people's sexual inclinations. But if it makes them happy to be rewarded out of pity, all power to them.


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