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Carr: It’s cool to be diverse, not Irish
Boston Herald ^ | September 27, 2013 | Howie Carr

Posted on 09/27/2013 8:08:22 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement

So two Irish guys finish on top in the Boston mayor’s race, and all of sudden, the Beautiful People are donning sackcloth and ashes.So much for celebrating diversity.Apparently it doesn’t matter what their politics are, all that matters is that they’re from the same “tribe.”

You read that right — that’s what the Globe said the day after the election, that Marty Walsh and John Connolly are from the same “ethnic tribe.”Somewhere, the leaders of the old Know-Nothing party are snickering. The more things change ...Then yesterday, it was more of the same. The Rev. Eugene Rivers ended his front-page piece in this newspaper by bemoaning the fact that “a white Irish man will again lead the city of Boston.”

Subsitute “Muslim” for “white Irish” — think that would have been printed?

(Excerpt) Read more at bostonherald.com ...


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KEYWORDS: boston; carr; diversity; irish
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"Alright, we'll give some land to the Niggers and the Chinks.....But we don't want the Irish."

21 posted on 09/28/2013 7:24:20 PM PDT by dfwgator
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