Our Racist Nation

international | rights, freedoms and repression | opinion/analysis Wednesday March 22, 2006 19:41 by Seán Ryan

A look at racism in Ireland.

Minister for Sensible Citizenship

A nigger walks into a bar and orders a pint of Guinness, the bartender politely but firmly tells him that this pub caters for whites only. The nigger is dumbfounded and angry and roars at the bartender, "You fucking paddies are all the fucking same! Racist bastards!"

Is the nigger right?

Who cares?

Fuck him.

At least we didn't arrest him for calling us 'paddies.' His nigger buddies back home wouldn't have been so lenient with him. Sure isn't that why he came over here, he wanted to get away from niggers himself.

So what's his fucking problem when we exhibit the same tendency?

It's funny how just about anything can be rationalised and made plausible isn't it?

If you were to judge me from what has been said so far in this piece, you'd rapidly and correctly define me as a bigoted pig. However if I re-typed the whole thing substituting the emotive words "nigger" and "pub" for more politically correct versions like "asylum seeker" or "foreign national" and "country," my opening paragraphs would begin to reflect conversations and many of the speeches given in favour of our recent 'keep Ireland white' referendum.

At this point I have a question.

Bertie, now that you have found a way to keep the bloodline pure; how do you plan to remove the taint that is already in our blood? In fairness Bertie over the years we've been polluting the old stream. There's a lot of English blood in us, and loads of other varieties. So we have stopped pissing in the stream - but who is going to remove what's already in there and more importantly how? As well as that Bertie, is there an example in existence of true Irish blood? Or does the master plan call for cloning some long dead hero of the Fianna? I hope it isn't Dev, he wasn't Irish either.

Maybe Bertie is saving this information for the next referendum.

I pray that I've become delusional because I believe, that we the Irish who are welcome everywhere on the planet, have become a narrow minded and blinkered shower of white supremacists. Even worse than the Americans, who have the excuses of coming from racist forefathers and being dumbed down by generations of capitalist spoon force-feeding. But we were the black man of Europe for a hell of a long time, and yet, within less than a century of self-governing we are introducing racist legislation into our constitution.

Has everyone gone completely stupid?

Let's look at some of the arguments that contradict the idea that a child born in Ireland is not Irish.

Let's start this in a light hearted manner but at the same time let us not lose sight of the argument itself.

Bertie is a farmer. Like the rest of humanity, Bertie longs for the adulation of his peers. He has been breeding cattle for slaughter for years, and has built up the best bloodlines that he can. Nearly all the profit from his farm goes into improving his stock. Being a perfectionist he has recently acquired a prize bull from France, he has also bought some cows in England. Bertie has taken a massive gamble; he's sold every cow he had to get this new herd. So now Bertie has only a small herd of cows, his new bull and some other bulls he also bought from foreign lands over the years.

Of course it's not really all that much of a gamble, it just looks that way to Bertie's friends for some reason he cannot fathom. Still he plays along with it knowing that when his new stock begins to pay off that his peers will be well impressed.

The only real threat to his plans he reckons is the upcoming referendum on "sensible citizenship". But since it only affects people and not cows, he knows he will still be able so sell Irish beef.

In truth if this addition to our constitution were to be compared to reality and not just racist wishful thinking it would be seen to be ludicrous. If it were a reflection of some natural law then most of what we label as Irish would be wishful thinking.

Here's some food for thought, an African man impregnates a Turkish woman in international waters on route to Ireland. A beautiful healthy child is born on Irish soil. If the child is not Irish then what nationality is it? Where is the child from?

Our constitution has forcibly removed a natural right from this child. Since when is our constitution allowed to be a tool of repression?

We cannot support the refugees. We just do not possess the resources.

Gimme a fuckin' break.

If the Irish population has reached its maximum size surely we should have had another constitutional amendment to vote for on the same day as the "keep Ireland white" referendum. This amendment of course would have been if favour of limiting Irish couples to one child only, similar to the Chinese practice. The Chinese also have the same problem about population size. If we do not act on this soon we shall have to apply for foreign aid. Unfortunately and because we have treated foreigners like niggers, they might not want to help us.

Okay I know the above paragraph is bullshit because we are not anywhere close to being in the same boat as China. Realising this it is but a simple and a truthful step to realising that the idea of us being too saturated with immigrants is utter shite.

Irishness is not a genetic trait and it never was, it is a way of being that has its geographic centre focused on our tiny little Island. Who the fuck are we, that we would limit the spread and influence of Irishness which has up until now spread like wildfire and really caught on. Try name a festival that is as international as Paddy's day. (excepting of course the American War Machine)

If all those who left this country during the famine had as bigoted an attitude as we have now, I'm not so sure our international standing would be as high as it is now. In other words, the traditional Irish attitude towards foreigners is one of kinship and was usually proportional to the persecution and oppression the foreigner had suffered.

These days this attitude has done a full 180o reversal and we now embrace those who persecute and we hate those who are oppressed.
The blame for this obscenity lies squarely at the feet of those in government. "Sensible Citizenship," indeed. Shall we have a referendum on "Sensible Fucking" next? You know, just to make sure.

What about all the niggers who provide our inadequate but only health service? They are good enough to birth Irish babies, yet they may not produce any of their own.

A question at this point, for you the reader: Which instance of my usage of the word "nigger" has offended you the most thus far?

Followed by the question: Why?

In truth when one does the "walk," one should also do the "talk." To act in a racist manner and then get upset about being called a racist is to be an ignorant hypocrite.

At this point I'd like to apologise to all those who are not being hypocritical about being offended by my usage of the term "nigger." In my defence, I really am going somewhere with all this, as I hope that you have guessed already.

Up until a very short while ago something used to piss me off. In movies and stuff, black people referred to each other as "niggers" and yet they were not considered racists. How is it that a black man can use the word, and get away with it, and yet, if I used it, I would be a racist? Surely if one man can behave in a certain fashion within society, then surely I'm being discriminated against if I cannot behave in the same fashion if I choose.

Well that's linear thinking for you. To only employ linear thinking is to play into the hands of those who try to culture only this way of behaving. It is to sabotage oneself from one's potential. Let me be very clear on this: Linear thought alone is but a response mechanism that can indeed lead to answers, but it rarely leads to comprehension.

Just a tiny bit of lateral thinking told me why it was ok for a black man to refer to another black man as a nigger but not ok for me to do so.

I imagined a beautiful, intelligent and voluptuous woman, and I called her "My horny bitch" which I also imagined would really turn her on. Then I imagined a black man calling her "his horny bitch" and I'm thinking, "I'd kill the bastard." Then I imagined a white man calling her "his horny bitch" and I'm thinking, "I'd kill the bastard."

This is going nowhere, I'm thinking, until I imagine another beautiful Goddess wink at me and call my Goddess "our horny bitch," and I'm thinking "Oh thank you Jesus, thank you!!!"

It's not a question of rights, at least not in a linear fashion anyway. It is about consent and more importantly whether or not I possess it.

To proceed to treat somebody in any fashion without consent is to presume superiority and to offer insult.

Ever heard the rhyme, "Sticks and stones will break my bones but names will never hurt me?"

The person who wrote it or proliferates it is a total cunt. I glibly use the "c" word knowing that the padded mindset of the writer who wrote the above or the user will turn my invective into a playful nudge. Wankers like that are the reason for war.

This sludge is still pounded into children who don't believe it any more than we did. Nonetheless they still learn to bury pain and avoid dealing with it. Of course you can only bury so much at a time and when you bury too much you are rewarded with an eruption of violence or chaos that you are not in control of.

Why is it that most people who are confronted with a loved one's suffering would take that suffering upon themselves if they could?

Because mental pain hurts more than physical pain.

Pain begins and ends in the mind. When pain is inflicted and is confined to the mind only, it becomes an attack that is centred at the core of a person's being, and if it is intentional it is severe indeed.

I'm not suggesting that Geroge Bush butchering Iraqis is not severe, because it is. But some things are worse than death. Well maybe not worse, but since death visits everyone, quality of life is what counts.

I believe most people do not actually fear death. I believe most of us fear suffering.

Our inbuilt or instinctive need to share our pain with others when suppressed by mental conditioning is eventually manifested by inflicting this pain on ourselves or on others in an attempt to satiate both sets of needs.

Life on earth evolved from bacteria. Multi-cellular life evolved from what at first was a parasitic relationship between bacteria. A parasite tries not to kill its host. A parasite who gives benefit to its host as well as taking it begins a symbiotic relationship in which both the host and the parasite stand a better chance of survival than other non coupled bacteria. Eventually this symbiosis gives way to a single multi-cellular life form, which in turn seeds both the animal and plant kingdom.

Society is as old a concept as life itself. However, I do not believe that the way society functions today, reflects a symbiotic relationship between the people who compose it. I believe that society today reflects a parasitic relationship between its constituents. And as we can see from my evolutionary example, we are a failing species.

For a society to begin to be considered functional, not a single person must be victimised by that society.

No 'nigger' labels.

No referendums that remove rights that others retain.

Our "keep Ireland white" referendum has introduced a paradox into our constitution, in that the constitution seeks to empower the individual by removing his power. It has established in writing, into our constitution, a class system, into a system that constitutionally forbids this to occur.

In what way was every citizen empowered by this referendum?

We have the illusion of being empowered when we consider that somebody got fucked royally, and we appear to have climbed up the old social ladder somewhat. The truth is that we have not moved upwards at all but have just kicked some of our comrades to the ground.

Are we, the newly empowered citizens, any closer to our God-like elite and elect?

If anything we are further away than ever, in that we will now piss on our constitution at their bidding. It seems as if the Nice referendum roundabout fiasco was but a warm up.