I know that this article will be posted after St. Patrick's day, but I am currently writing this on St. Patrick's Day and for good reason. Yes, I am Irish and I am wearing green with pride. I honestly wasn't sure what to write about this week until it was brought to my attention that someone created a Twitter page called "End St. Patrick's Day." I couldn't understand why, so I decided to look it up myself. As soon as you click on the page, you see the words:

"The official Twitter account for the coordinated effort to end St. Patrick's Day and raise awareness of the fact that it is a holiday based on white pride."

I immediately thought, "this has to be a joke..." but as I continued to scroll through it was said by the creator of this page that it is not a joke at all. My next reaction was...so it's perfectly okay for us to have Black History Month but not St. Patrick's Day? If you are going to call it a "holiday based on white pride" then what's the difference? So black pride is okay but white pride isn't? There is no difference anyone can point out that does not show racism.

Then I read the very first tweet on the page which said, "you think you're different because you're Irish, so you're racist." Excuse me? I am Irish, I am not racist, and all I am doing is trying to celebrate a part of my culture. That's what this is supposed to be about! It's not about promoting a "white holiday" as the creator of this page had also called it, it honestly has absolutely nothing to do with race. It is about being proud of your cultural heritage.

I have no problem with people from other cultures and I think everyone should have the freedom to learn about and celebrate their traditions and where their family came from. All this Twitter page is doing is putting down people for not being exactly the same. Yes, I understand equal rights and fully support everyone wanting to be treated equally, but no matter what we will always be different and diverse. That is the beauty of this world. If everyone were the same, this world would be a boring place. So, why is it a bad thing for us to celebrate our separate cultures? It's not. I will not feel bad for celebrating St. Patrick's Day because I am Irish just as blacks should not feel bad about celebrating Black History Month because that is a part of who they are. Be proud of who you are, don't let others put you down just because you are not exactly like them.