mash 'em

Hey, the Irish got accepted as White after large numbers of them joined police departments (about the time of large-scale Black migration from the Jim Crow South), so they’re at least on the happy side of the pitchfork of American race relations

tbf, we waited 'til after the Potato Famine to write that. Good planning on our part, since we were never cruel towards immigrants to our country ever again! 😊