Irish-Americans Banned From Pub On Saint Patrick’s Day

Detroit Businessman Bans Irish-Americans From Pub On Saint Patrick’s Day

A Detroit bar banned Irish-Americans from his pub on Saint Patrick’s Day. Dan Margulis’s pub sat along the Saint Patrick’s Day Parade route in Detroit.

He also posted signs in the window calling Irish people “lazy” and “lower class citizens” in his windows. Most of the drunken Irish-Americans attending the parade lived up to their Irish stereotypes by starting fights with the bouncer at the door.

Bouncer Bill Johns would use language from century-old newspapers to berate the Irish to people passing by:

We don’t need no more immigrants in this country. They’re ruining this country. The majority of them aren’t helping anybody but themselves.

Dan Margulis told USA Today:

People were outraged. They didn’t understand how someone could be so racist.

Dan Margulis wasn’t trying to spark fights. He wanted to prove a point about immigration and Irish-American hypocrisy toward it.

Margulis wanted to raise awareness about how poorly Irish immigrants were once treated in the United States.  He wanted to use it against the backdrop of modern-day conversations about race and immigration.

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