I Am Irish

Yes it sure does.

@hami1091: 😥

@bijouxbroussard: Your and my opinion will always differ there, and that's okay. I don't think so, I will not celebrate the first black president until I see one in office. That law is outdated and just something else that was set forth to divide and separate the blacks and the whites. I don't think it takes more courage to be black than it does to be called any one race. I think it takes courage to stand and say I am multiracial or biracial and I am proud of all of my bloodline and who I am. Just like all the crap the cheerios company got over their commercial. My nephews birth certificate says multiracial just as every other modern baby born with more than one race should and he will be raised to be proud of himself and who he is, he won't be raised to be black or to be white or to be Indian but to embrace his full bloodline as it should be. And the same will be if the day comes that my crazy stepkid and his gf goofs up (and I say goof-up because they are way too young to be parents no matter what she thinks.) that baby will be raised to embrace the complete package not just part of it.

@hami1091: Unless you've been black you have no way of knowing. And for someone who hasn't experienced either personally to judge "courage" is incredibly arrogant.

@bijouxbroussard: As I said our opinions differ and it makes us human. You have the right to believe what you believe as do I and we each only have the experience of our own personal environments. Saying unless I've been black would be like saying unless you been redheaded or even more vague unless you've walked a mile in my shoes. I have been blessed until recently the only racism I ever saw today was when I got online or have to venture out 200 miles south (Now there's a family of trash that moved in, on our quiet little peaceful community) and there are many blacks who thankfully don't know in the way that you do because they are not living in an environment where so much hate and racism is still alive, though there are many places where it still breathes too much. I think we are going in the right direction and someday hopefully in the next generations to come it will be less and less. It is out there it exist. We don't have to feed it. We don't have to let it consume us or make us bitter or make us less proud of who we are. And we don't have to deny one blood to fully support another. We should raise our children with not only love and kindness but to fully embrace themselves and each other. :)

I agree

Stereotypical Americans seem to think Irish have ill tempers and are stubborn. My mother's family arrived in America nearly 200 years ago, so we are far from Irish.... we are American but tell my grandparents that and you will wish you'd never spoke. I don't think I agree with it at all, perhaps in Canada, Irish aren't stereotyped that way.

@hami1091: i could not tell.. i learned that I had Irish roots a fee few yrs ago.as I was adopted.. my grandfather immigrated here when young.. that's the only root I know as I don't know my father's side and never will

As I was saying, do you think that is what makes Irish Americans more ill-tempered than people who live in Ireland because they weren't exactly treated well on their arrival here?

They've never been treated well anywhere.. the British have been trying to genocide them for ages. I think they are ill tempered because everyone is always trying to abuse them historically. It gets passed down.. the ones that got to pass sown their genes were probsbly the ones that were the toughest. perhaps some epigenetics as well as social conditioning.

Coppercoil, indentured servants were not slaves. That is a revisionist fiction some in the U.S. have concocted to minimize the nation's participation in the Atlantic Slave Trade. 🙄

A mad Irishman tore mine off!!
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......... In an empty room! 😄😄 @hami1091:

I agree with you that no one nationality has a fixed set of temper. :)