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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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?
@PalmTreesnGz -
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.
@diasporaspear -
@aurabogado the step up received is based on participating in white supremacy. We all win if we tear it down.
End of conversation
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