Remember the signs in doorways and windows of businesses?
No Catholics Nedd Apply
Talk about discirmination!
Good point, Salvation. Maybe memory is the problem.
Yet Senator Kennedy couldn't possibly forget his own Kennedy clan's battles against discrimination beginning with the harsh discrimination against his Father, Joseph Kennedy for illegally importing liquor. Poor Mr. Kennedy.
Then there was the stressful case of Ted's older brother John who didn't stand a chance of being elected President because he would have been the first Catholic President. Poor JFK.
No Irish Need Apply. Fact or Myth?
For an alternative perspective see http://tigger.uic.edu/~rjensen/no-irish.htm