I keep coming back to this line: "Our votes matter, even if Trump doesn’t think our lives do." I just.... http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/opinion/2015/07/21/opinion-why-is-gop-outraged-by-trump-comments-on-mccain-but-not-on-mexicans/ …
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Why take all the work of Black Lives Matter and collapse it to bizarre, latinos gonna pull up your bootstrap talking points?
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And, more to the point, there's this. Just. Wow.pic.twitter.com/heMqkpz3Ph
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Let's parse it out a bit. By GOP, we mean white conservatives. By latinos and immigrant families, we mean non-black latinos.
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This piece is essentially saying SOME people *wink, wink* work hard and we're in the same boat. Note it doesn't say we ALL work hard.
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If we non-black latinos work hard, and white folks work hard... who's the counter to this that isn't working hard? Oh.
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Without having to be explicit about it, non-black latinos and whites have a common ground on which we too often agree: anti-blackness.
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And here's the thing: as I've stated previously, Trump's been saying crazy racist shit against black people for a long ass time.
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But it wasn't until Trump was front in center with his vile anti-latino bullshit that people started pulling away from him.
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Black and latino people were both the targets of Trump's hate. But this article doesn't mention it. There's no common ground cited.
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Instead, the commonality that's cited is literally how the GOP and non-black latinos are into "pulling oneself up by [one's] bootstraps."
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This oped does nothing to confront the GOP's continuing legacy of racism in the explicit form of anti-blackness. Why miss this opportunity?
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I'm... disappointed. At best. This is such a missed opportunity—at such a crucial time in our existence.
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