For some context: I'm currently leaving southern Arizona. The checkpoints and surveillance terrorize communities here. I know that.
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But this is not the same, and shouldn't be collapsed into the particular terror that black people face.
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This image is literally using the image of the death of a black teenager to prop up the humanity of non-black immigrants. Not ok.
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Mike Brown didn't die for non-black Latinos to use his image like this. He shouldn't have died at all. But to use him like this now? Nah.
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This is a time when we are mourning the premature death of black people. It shouldn't be a time to politically capitalize on that death.
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There are so many more things I want to say about this image, who created it, how it's being used. But y'all are brilliant. Break it down.
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@aurabogado Michael Brown's death should not be used as an advertising opportunity.His death and Black lives stand on their own,
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@aurabogado after looking the image again, I still don't see a problem. Granted Puerto Ricans and Dominicans arent... -
@KeithEricBenson Puerto Ricans are citizens and therefor not immigrants. @SpiritEquality -
@KeithEricBenson And there are black people in every country in the Americas, not just DR and US. @SpiritEquality
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For those that will read these tweets as attacks on undocumented folx.. It isn't. It's about giving things their space.
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@PalmTreesnGz@aurabogado And taking space from a community that rarely has space at all.
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So... Yeah. We can be here as non black Latinos w/o making this moment/this anti black structure our platform
@aurabogadoThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Hell no. RT
@aurabogado: No. No. No. And no.pic.twitter.com/W0TMsWksyt
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Like this shit is just not even about intersectionality or collaboration. RT
@aurabogado: No. No. No. And no.pic.twitter.com/W0TMsWksyt
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