since we're close to st paddy's i wanna speak diaspora to diaspora, idk which irish american needs to hear this but your folks didn't come over from their colonized homeland risking death and almost certain estrangement from their families for you to be a cop in boston
Speaking Australian Irish to my fellow Australian Irish, our forebears did not survive being forcibly dispossessed of their homelands, and interred on country not our own for their ancestors to start running prison islands of our own.
They didn’t survive being robbed of their language and culture for their decedents to use the same tools against Indigenous cultures across Australia.
REBLOGGING THIS VERSION BC YES
I’m a quarter Irish and would like to remind Irish-Americans that there was literally a time when we were denied jobs strictly on the basis of being Irish, so don’t you DARE turn around and say immigrants are stealing your job or that Black folks at your work only got the job because of affirmative action, because those are the words of the enemy.
They absolutely came over to be a cop in Boston, the Irish used the police to displace the established WASP power structure, meaning that by becoming cops they got to drive out the English