literally in my feelings abt all the shit latinxs who voted for Trump, laughed when he degraded Mexicans, & talk shit abt immigrants
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It's fucked & don't even get me started on Latinxs who marry/date yt folks & act like white privilege is their fucking birth rite/ blessing
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I love JLo & Ricky Martin for speaking up on PR but where were they when Sandra Bland was murdered? Or when Trump called a Muslim ban??
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And who the fuck am I, right? Like activists are in the streets dying/getting arrested & im here writing fairytales. But I'm not distancing
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Myself from these struggles. To me they're all so deeply interconnected, anything that affects POC, affects me. We cannot distance ourselves
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JUST STOP. If you're Latinx (esp light skinned/white passing) & your politics align w FOX News or Ann Coulter, you need to WAKE TF UP PAPO
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THEY WILL TAKE UR BIGOTED LATINX ASS & CHUCK YOU IN THE SAME CAMP AS 'ESE GENTE' YOU TALK SO MUCH SHIT ABOUT
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HOW CAN YOU NOT UNDERSTAND THAT?? I'm tired of y'all. I'm tired of how much white supremacist thought & language guides Latinx convos here
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I'm tired of family members &a latinx folks in the media defending whiteness & police & Trump. Nope, how you gonna serve us to the lions?
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He's banking on us to be like this, to lure us into the rhetoric that's working so well w disgruntled whites. This admin wants us divided
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They want us Latinx folks & others to lock each other up and help build walls to keep OUR people OUT. We always do their dirty work.
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When they think of us, it's as property, workers, maids, nannies, bodyguards, enforcers: They want our bodies & labor but NOT US
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So from here on out let's not give any more passed. That sexist puto uncle who talks shit abt Muslim women at the table, SHRED HIM
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That aunt who spews antiBlackness everywhere CRACK HER OPEN. No one gets a pass. The latinx contingent is out of passes.
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And yes move w love, we don't all have access to the same convos/education/life, so share your knowledge in gentle ways too but still SHRED
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No time for bruised machismo, islamaphobia, antiBlackness. Enough. It's not ok. Shut it down. You have the right to say Not in My House
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And I wanna be hella clear that I use Latinx not to exclude Afrolatinxs but bc I'm light skinned & trying to mind my place & privileges
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Still navigating the best way to do that so please correct me if I need it.
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