There's a deeply flawed article about why police killings of latinos don't get more attention. Stop believing it. http://www.latimes.com/local/crime/la-me-0718-latino-police-20150718-story.html …
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I can't bring myself to watch the Diaz Zeferino killing, but read what happened. You know how many protests there've been in Gardena? Zero.
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You know how many latinos shut shit down in Gardena after the Diaz Zeferino video was released? Zero.
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What, you think attention to black people are disproportionately killed by cops is because of ¡poof! magic? Nope. It's because of work.
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And if you don't directly say we're pay attention to police killing because of black organizing, you're making that work invisible.
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Latinos are more than capable of organizing. But we choose what to work on. For a long time, it was immigration. That was also work.
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If latino killing by cops isn't getting attention, it's because latinos aren't organizing. Simple.
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And what's this Catholic Church nonsense? This idea that latinos come from these docile counties? Please. My gawd.
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If nothing else, the 20th century for Latin America was a century of revolution: Mexico. Guatemala. El Salvador. Nicaragua. Colombia. +
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Venezuela. Cuba. Brasil. Paraguay. Argentina. Chile. Bolivia. Peru. Massive revolutions. These aren't conforming, docile people.
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So please. Stop buying into these silly arguments based on bad assumptions about why latino killings by cops don't get more attention.
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Stop making the work of people like
@osope—who ALWAYS says "black and brown lives" whoever she gets the chance—invisible. -
Stop thinking the Catholic Church hasn't had its own revolutionaries, like the Blessed Óscar Romero.
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Stop buying into the notion that latinos comes from meek people who haven't consistently fought—and died—for theirs.
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And start getting real. The killing of latinos by cops will get attention when latino people decide to put in the work to make it happen.
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And trust: black folks will support it. Black latinos especially. And non-latino black people, too. But the work's gotta happen first.
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Funny how people who ain't even from LA are up in my mentions telling me I have an East Coast analysis on cops killing latinos. foh.
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For starters, I'm from LA. And I live in LA. It's in my bio but I guess you got assumptions. That's on you.
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But it doesn't really matter. Cops are killing latinos in New York, too. And in every other state.
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And yes, *some* organize when cops kill. I've had friends and family members killed by cops. Don't tell me I don't know this firsthand.
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But latinos aren't organizing against cops killing us nationally. And we haven't been doing it for generations, either.
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We haven't come up with with unique frameworks and messaging. And we've been stealing a # that 3 black women put in serious work to create.
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If you think
#BlackLivesMatter
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We're not talking about one hashtag. Or a handful of protests. We're talking about countless hours of work—through generations.
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Put in that work. If you still get ignored—years later—then we'll talk if the media is still actually ignoring you.
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