My Father loved JFK, more because
he was an Irish Catholic who had made it. Unlike my Father raised in a
Protestant Country (Scotland) Kennedy made my father’s life long suffering worthwhile,
yet I saw Kennedy and another sell out to the enemies of the working class,
that portended to be with us only to stab us in the back in the end as many
Democrats do. My Father like many others
left the country he loved and he did love Scotland and even England if they
were fighting a common enemy. After being discriminated against in job after
job for being an Irish Catholic he took to the streets, he once said the his proudest
moment was when he put a brick through a Orange party Base drum during the
Orange parade in Glasgow.
Don’t get me wrong the Kennedy
Family did a lot for this country working within a system that heavily favors the
elite class over the working class, and Ted Kennedy did a lot the improve
health care in this country, which makes me think that senator if worked right
can be more powerful than a President.
I think the fight goes on, but not
just for Irish Catholics, but for all workingclass people around the world, and
yes it looks like an impossible dream, but so did a free Ireland.
