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I mean, if White families celebrated Martin Luther King, Jr. by stocking up on fried chicken and watermelon, tossed a burning cross on the front lawn, and crank

I mean, if White families celebrated Martin Luther King, Jr. by stocking up on fried chicken and watermelon, tossed a burning cross on the front lawn, and cranked up Eminem, that would be about the equivalent of some St. "Patty" celebrations I've seen. Anti-Catholicism is frequently referred to as "The Last Acceptable Prejudice", but there are plenty of acceptable prejudices for the politically correct, and a nation full of poor, oppressed white Catholics with funny accents is ripe for the picking. Mexicans get it too, on Cinco de Mayo. Perhaps there is more sensitivity because they're side-by-side with us.

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> I mean, if White families celebrated Martin Luther King, Jr. by stocking up on fried chicken and watermelon, tossed a burning cross on the front lawn, and cranked up Eminem, that would be about the equivalent of some St. "Patty" celebrations I've seen. It'd be more like white families celebrating Martin Luther King, Jr. by reciting the "I have a dream" speech and marching because that's all they know and associate him with, while others object that he's become an offensive caricature because actually he had a complex life and was more than just a civil rights leader and people celebrating ignore that he had many speeches and also spoke out a lot about class issues, not just race issues. There are plenty of offensive stereotypes about Irish people, but we don't bring them out for the holiday. They're largely forgotten in the US.