I am Irish-American, and I object to your stereotyping of Irish-Americans. I dunno, maybe you haven't been to enough protests where there are Irish-Americans who are quite visible. You're forgetting about all of the Catholics - a disproportionate number of them Irish - who are committing civil disobedience in the name of peace. We're angry, passionate people who are extremely outspoken on whatever stances we take. You do not want to piss us off.

I'm really sick of this pick-on-the-ethnics classist bullshit. You have no idea how alienating it is to hear this ignorant bullshit. Daley's people came over - what? - six generations ago? My grandparents are from Ireland - they don't identify with Daley and his cronies at all. A lot of Irish people are stuck in the working-class to this day. There are a whole lot of middle-class people who love the fact that cops are in the line of danger doing what they would love to do themselves if they weren't so self-conscious about getting their hands dirty.

I grew up in a mixed-ethnic working-class community, but I went to an elite, WASPy university on the north shore (guess which one). Do you realize that these nice, enlightened middle-class liberals say racist shit all of the time, are nasty class bigots, and are anti-Semites who bar Jewish women from their sororities? That their fraternities hold parties in blackface?

Racism is everywhere. I've encountered plenty of NIMBY racism on the north side. I do wish that certain people would stop projecting it onto others.

And New Yorkers, if you weren't such snobs, you would realize that we have plenty of culture & landmarks, starting with our architecture. You can keep your tacky overgrown hood ornament as far as I'm concerned. Y'all do need to stop being so snobbish and give a shit about the majority of the country that doesn't live in your city. That's part of the reason we're in this mess in the first place.