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Date Posted: 02:00:16 09/29/05 Thu
Author: Adriana
Subject: Re: New Orleans
In reply to: Chill Pill 's message, "Re: New Orleans" on 01:57:59 09/29/05 Thu

>>>>>Yea and the Irish are portrayed as backward savage
>>>>>bastards that don't know their arse from their
>>>>>elbow.!!!! What do we do about it, laugh it off and
>>>>>move on, by reacting to them and letting them know
>>>you
>>>>>take offence gives them the power they are looking
>>>>>for, you play into their game and they keep going.
>>>>>Don't take it to heart so much, look past it, see
>>>over
>>>>>it.
>>>>
>>>>I've seen you post in irish jokes and you got pissed
>>>>off at the irish-bashing. I should have known that
>>>>you're Irish, sorry i can be stupid sometimes. But
>>i'm
>>>>not holding you at fault for it, it's normal and
>>>>healthy to be proud enough of your ethnicity to not
>>>>take shit from others dissing it.
>>>
>>>Yea and look at my posts now..............i learned
>my
>>>lessons from it. I know now not to feed the fire and
>>>it won't burn. Thats why i'm saying it to you.
>>
>>They'll throw their own shit into the fire anyway i've
>>seen so it's more productive to cuss them out than lay
>>there and let yourself be kicked in the head. Just my
>>opinion.
>
>
>Well maybe it has to do with where we come from you
>know??/ We have a good sense of humour and maybe thats
>what it is, we have being getting teased like this for
>years and i think we are immunine to it now. No
>offence but people have the whole racist thing towards
>Cubans now that are coming into America, thats how we
>were treated in the late 1800's when the Irish
>emigrated to the States in their millions, but 100
>years on and thats all done with now, it seems that
>the Cubans and Mexicans are in the same situation we
>were once in and so i can understand your reasoning
>behind how you feel.

Yes i read all about the "IRISH NEED NOT APPLY" shit from xenophobic nativists that went on.

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Re: New Orleans -- Chill Pill, 10:19:53 09/29/05 Thu
- Re: New Orleans -- Matthew Villani, 17:49:23 09/29/05 Thu
  - Re: New Orleans -- HEAT, 20:16:06 10/17/05 Mon
    - Re: New Orleans -- Matthew Villani, 21:40:37 10/17/05 Mon
      - Re: New Orleans -- Heat, 08:47:10 10/18/05 Tue
        Re: New Orleans -- Ashley, 00:26:36 10/20/05 Thu
        Re: New Orleans -- Heat, 18:58:17 10/20/05 Thu
        Re: New Orleans -- Matthew Villani, 00:41:06 10/21/05 Fri
        Re: New Orleans -- Heat, 05:59:56 10/21/05 Fri
        Re: New Orleans -- Matthew Villani, 21:11:06 10/21/05 Fri
        Re: New Orleans -- Heat, 08:01:01 10/22/05 Sat
        Re: New Orleans -- Ashley, 08:12:17 10/22/05 Sat
        Re: New Orleans -- HEAT, 11:17:38 10/22/05 Sat
        Re: New Orleans -- Ashley, 04:15:30 10/23/05 Sun
        Re: New Orleans -- Heat, 20:24:20 10/24/05 Mon
        Re: New Orleans -- Ashley, 20:30:47 10/24/05 Mon
        Re: New Orleans -- Heat, 22:05:23 10/24/05 Mon
        Re: New Orleans -- Ashley, 06:26:11 10/25/05 Tue
        Re: New Orleans -- Heat, 06:32:33 10/25/05 Tue
        Re: New Orleans -- Ashley, 06:42:02 10/25/05 Tue
        Re: New Orleans -- Heat, 18:00:45 10/25/05 Tue
        Re: New Orleans -- Ashley, 06:31:07 10/26/05 Wed
        Re: New Orleans -- Heat, 13:02:09 10/26/05 Wed
        Re: New Orleans -- Ashley, 10:52:55 10/27/05 Thu
        Re: New Orleans -- Heat, 20:02:26 10/27/05 Thu
        Re: New Orleans -- Ashley, 18:19:19 11/01/05 Tue
    - The Great Irish Potato Famine -- Matthew Villani, 21:45:44 10/17/05 Mon
- Re: New Orleans -- Adriana, 21:26:37 09/29/05 Thu
  - Re: New Orleans -- Chill Pill, 00:16:05 09/30/05 Fri
    - Re: New Orleans -- Adriana, 02:42:09 09/30/05 Fri
      - Re: New Orleans -- HEAT, 20:23:40 10/17/05 Mon
        Re: New Orleans -- TopOfTotemPole, 07:37:22 10/18/05 Tue
        Re: New Orleans -- Heat, 08:20:37 10/18/05 Tue
        Re: New Orleans -- TopOfTotemPole, 05:12:08 10/19/05 Wed
        Re: New Orleans -- Heat, 07:35:41 10/19/05 Wed