Russell ContrerasVerified account

the concentration camps that many are comparing Trump's treatment to, instead of comparing them to Obama's more recent and direct place on the continuum of US policy towards Central American children, moms & countries.

Everybody’s got their part in battling the demon of prejudice and hatred. But false equivalency won’t help today. This isn’t Nazi germany and it is not just like Obama’s admin. People are awakening. It may be imperfect but it’s where we are at. Insatiable greed will lose.

I think that, to the mothers who slit their wrists, the children who tried to hang themselves, to all the kids & moms from among I've invwd the 10s of 1000s who lived everything Trump is doing, you probably sound like ur in denial.

Would u like to speak with them & tell them u think their erasure, their terror, the destruction of their lives is a "false equivalency"? I can probably arrange that & would love to record it and report on it, as it wld be fascinating. Plz lemme know. Thx, R

Just checking on this last tweet for understanding. Are you saying I am agreeing to a false equivalency? My place in this thread is locals will continue to work@where and as often as we can for these CA immigrants

I suggest working with the actually existing Central Ameriicans who've worked against th Dem-GOP policies tht created this ovr mor thn 30 years. I think there's a principle of something called "allyship"that says non-whites shld take their lead from the affected grp, as w #BLM.

Isn’t that what we are doing?

Which Central Americans r u working with? Surely not the actual mothers & kids who r in prison. Many r interacting with 2 dimensional images & soundbytes & not actually existing Central Americans. Those closest to them, those who hav 30+ years on this issue r being erased & repl