You know who has no power in Watts? The black people who've been displaced by Latinos, forced to move to places like the Inland Empire.
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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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I think non-black latinos benefit, too. Maybe not in the same ways and/or extent, but we benefit.
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@aurabogado the step up received is based on participating in white supremacy. We all win if we tear it down.
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That that's always at play shows to me how deeply rooted anti blackness is within concepts about citizenship in this country.
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Thanks. I feel it's important to b clear when we think thru this stuff. It's a cold world for black folks.
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And we're often the ones making it chilly...
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Right. I think often we do it inadvertently. At least everyday folks. But that doesn't matter bc consequences
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Let's be clear who is evoked when narratives like "we immigrants come to this country and work harder than some citizens.."
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That hard working immigrant narrative's usually, almost intuitively juxtaposed to those who've been marked as historically lazy
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Always and forever.
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