It was immoral that #KellyGissendaner was executed—and what #RichardGlossip is going through is nothing less than cruelty. However....
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Three people were executed in the last week:
#KellyGissendaner,#AlfredoPrieto, and#JuanGarcia. Haven't heard much about the latter two. -
Again, two latino men were executed within days of each other—and we hardly heard about. Not common, tho.
#AlfredoPrieto#JuanGarcia. -
Keep in mind that big latino orgs, like NCLR and MALDEF, don't even have positions on the death penalty.
#AlfredoPrieto#JuanGarcia. -
And there is very little latino grassroots organizing around criminal justice—this includes the death penalty.
#AlfredoPrieto#JuanGarcia -
This isn't sustainable: respectability politics of latino organizing—which is allergic to addressing criminal justice—will prove a failure.
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In the meanwhile, it's simply a shame. No latino org is hard to fight against the death penalty. It's embarrassing, really.
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And, unfortunately, the latino fight for common dignity is too often aided by anti-blackness, especially in veiled forms.
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And what we wind up with is people—human beings—like
#AlfredoPrieto and#JuanGarcia who are executed, largely in silence. Shame. - 1 more reply
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