Micks Did This

The murder of George Floyd, police violence, and the unpaid moral debts of the Irish in America

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Somewhat counter-intuitively, to make the point I’m here to make, I must begin with a defense of Irish-American racism.

I don’t care who you are, or what ethnoreligious background you come from: If you got the deal we got when we came to these shores…