The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #105621 Message #2177325
Posted By: Goose Gander
23-Oct-07 - 11:19 AM
Thread Name: Origins of Samhain
Subject: RE: Origins of Samhain
"The tract I got handed last year showed red-nosed drunken Irish cavorting on halloween and then hypocritically going to mass the next day for for all Saints Day. There is a is a similarly racist depiction of Mexicans celebration the Day of The Dead that gets passed out. I asked the gal who handed me the day of the dead pamphlet if the drunken Irishmen in her other pamphlet were the ones who taught that foul practice to the mexicans and she said "Yes, I think they did!" Sadly, she was quite serious."
I'd like to think that this was an isolated example, but I recently heard a particularly offensive war-mongering radio host put out the slander about wicked, pagan Irish bringing their devil's celebration to these sainted shores. And I've read the same sort of thing in those ubiquitous 'jack chick' tracts that are left around bus stops and other public places.