But the discrimination felt by the Irish today is still more removed from the average Irish-American (which I am, by the way
) than the discrimination the average non-white American faces -- that is much more immediate. Some of us who are Irish-American may have close relatives who still live in Ireland and thus might be directly affected by anything that promotes stereotypes, but the majority of us Irish-Americans are pretty removed from that conflict.
I think the bottom line, as DeltAlum alluded to, is that regardless of whether or not you agree with the fact that some people have a right to be offended by this kind of party -- if you have parties like this, you are promoting a view of the Greek system that will cause many to label us as racist, which is definitely not what we need. So for the sake of the Greek system's reputation, can we stop throwing parties like this?