On St. Patrick's Day we invite everyone to become Irish for the day. Eat, drink, sing, dance and the occasional fistfight (quickly broken up) followed by loser buying the next round...all are welcome!
I agree with wholeheartedly with you, but the lefties don't.
Shamrock is Decried as Racist Symbol in Irish Fire Dept.
"On several fire engines and ladder trucks in Boston a large shamrock, the symbol of Irish pride, is visible next to standard-issue decals like the engine number and Fire Department logo." Most firefighters don't even think about it. "But many of the city's minority firefighters do think about it. To them, the shamrock is a reminder that the Boston Fire Department remains an old-boy network, controlled as it has been for more than a century by white and mostly Irish-American men."
Boston Housing Authority Declares Shamrock Racist!
"The Boston Housing Authority yesterday clarified its diversity policy after Mayor Thomas M. Menino raised questions about reports that the BHA equated one of the city's most familiar emblems, the shamrock, with hate symbols such as the swastika.
We're already called racists in the Tea Party by OWS types and the media. How long until the next TP rally is attacked by leftwing thugs and the media will blame US for flaunting our love of the Constitution as some kind of racism?
Our freedom of speech and freedom of association requires that we fight for it, and for others, even when they are disgusting - i.e. the nazis get to march in Skokie, and stormfronters get to eat pancakes together at hojos.