What's with this "Latinos have no power in Watts so let's blame black people!" narrative in the LA Times and LA Weekly?
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@PalmTreesnGz CC last few tweets for everything we always talk about....Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@PalmTreesnGz brings up a good point: we can very well start this conversation by looking at Mexican and Central American displacement. -
There's so much at play. Let's not collapse it to "black people don't let latino people have power in Watts." Because it's lazy. And untrue.
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What do latin@s want outside of immigration reform in our communities? What kinda schools do we want? Relationship to police?
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But can we also talk about how popular immigration reform rhetoric is also rooted in anti-blackness?
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One last thing: It's the 50-year anniversary of the Watts riots. A black thing. Can we just let black people have a moment?
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Can we commemorate, hear about, think about the Watts riots, 50 years later... and not re-center and make it about non-black latinos?
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@aurabogado Only people who benefit form pitting one against the other is white people. -
I think non-black latinos benefit, too. Maybe not in the same ways and/or extent, but we benefit.
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@aurabogado@PalmTreesnGz , lot of truth being spoken. But, whether intentional or not, u seem dismissive bout the black animus directed -
@aurabogado@PalmTreesnGz , maybe not. But unfortuNately it feeds the us vs them narrative. -
@aurabogado@PalmTreesnGz which is the perception that both blacks and Latinos at times have against the other. -
Umm. When have black people targeted latinos for death? Like straight killed latinos for being in the hood?
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I don't mean a random shooting, or a killing during a car-jacking, etc.
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I mean rolled up to someone's house, told them there's too many of their race, and straight killed them?
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I really hope u can understand this
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@PalmTreesnGz probably we should have a twitter chat about this... i honestly think people don't know. te llamo luego. - 1 more reply
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@aurabogado at Latinos. I see a lack of empathy by all parties. -
@singyourlife82@PalmTreesnGz k, so let's tweet about it.... for starters, "black animus" sounds like tone policing to me.
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@aurabogado Latino anti blackness allows Whites™ to use us for their settler colonialist bidding. 'bout time we exorcise that shitThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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