some of my best friends are Polish
one is a VP at Fidelity, former Digital colleague
he is one of the smartest ingenious hungry guys I have ever known
too bad I missed out on the Polish bashing
I generally conclude that when an ethnic group reacts with hostility, they harbor some deep inner wounds... sometimes the wounds are based on tragedy (holocaust, Cuban communism, Albanian ethnic cleansing, Irish servitude from potato famines)
but sometimes they are based on inferiority complex
I love my many Italian friends... they are merciless among themselves... they are also some of the best genuine friends one can have on earth... when I bash them as in the Sopranos last week, no big deal... they can laugh at themselves
but the Cuban issues were on my mind while driving from Massatwhoshits to Jersey... and my conclusion was that their tragedy, their desparation to risk a rift to float to Miami, that is not something they laugh at among themselves... instead it brings sadness... that is why I apologized
I grew up in a heavily Jewish neighborhood... some neighbors had nearly wiped out families... no holocaust jokes from me, too insensitive... knew a Latvian Jew neighbor, worked for him in construction... I was a summer lackey digging trenches, humping 50 sheets of plywood to second floor, etc... he was shot by Nazis and left in a heap of dead bodies... not the stuff to joke about
so there, not really too sensitive a response by Eski and Angel
I capiche, Jim Willie Screwball |
