can you confuse black Irish and jewish?

Question

I'm Jewish, but I've been told repeatedly that I look "black Irish"
(dark hair, fair skin, freckles).
Has anyone else been mistaken for Jewish/Irish?

Answer 1

black irish?

Answer 2

No. An Irish person will always offer you a beer. The Jewish person will always ask if you'd like a piece of cake. However in BOTH cases, if you say "no, thank you", they'll give it to you, anyway.

But if you're Jewish, AND you have freckles, it can only mean that, when your parents were first married, they had an Irish Mailman. But don't be mad at mom. We Irishmen--especially in uniform--are irresistible to women. Even newly married Jewish women.

Facts is facts.

PS: Now you know why you love potato bagels so much!

Answer 3

Some are and some aren't. One can't make a blanket statement about all women of any race. Beauty is completely subjective and in the eye of the beholder. Most of the people here are being very stereotypical, even the ones who are being complimentary. All black women don't have wide noses or thick lips or the same texture of hair or glowing skin or big butts or even dark skin. The vast majority of black Americans are mixed race even if they don't appear to be to you - it's the reason why most black Americans don't look like Africans. I don't know what women the ones who've spoken on personal hygiene are hanging around but maybe you need to find a better class of people to associate with.

Answer 4

My maternal grandfather was black Irish. Fair skin, blue eyes and jet black hair hence the term black Irish. The Spaniards apparently paid unfriendly visits to Ireland in the 16th/17th century and probably raped and pillaged. Any way their darker genes got into the Irish gene pool. My mother who had her father's coloring was sometimes mistaken for Jewish.

Answer 5

I've never heard of the term "Black Irish", i have heard that the Irish are the Black of the UK (from the movie "The Committments"), but Black Irish. I have no idea. The lead singer of an Irish group called Thin Lizzy was black..and hence "Black Irish". Go to google and put "Thin Lizzy" in quotations and hit images, then you can see who i am talking about. I hate to say it, but i think the term "Black Irish" is probably a racial slur.

Answer 6

One time a Black-Irish guy told me I was cool. But that's about it. I guess I've been mistaken for Cool before, but never been mistaken as an Irish Jew or anything.

I've also been mistaken for my brother! That's hilarious to me because my brother is gay and I'm not. Weird huh?

Answer 7

I'm Irish, partly, but I have the red hair, fair skin, freckles, light eyebrows & lashes. All Black Irish references is the color of your hair, eye brows & lashes.

Answer 8

i never seen a black irish so i don't know

Answer 9

Can you tell the difference between a shofar and a shillelagh?

And go to shul - it's the 9th of Ov

Answer 10

I'm Welsh - I get confused with someone with high self esteem.