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I want you to see this family. They were separated by the Trump administration at the border. They're from Honduras. I've seen some Black folk ask why we should care about this crisis when we have "our own problems." Let me unpack my answer in a thread //pic.twitter.com/wMbW4y3iJK
1. First and foremost, we should care about families being forcefully separated at the border because what is happening there is pure, unadulterated evil and Dr. King was right, "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
2. What we see happening to immigrant families at the border is nothing but a new expression of white supremacy. White supremacy is the undergirding philosophy at work in this injustice - they are just finding other ways to express it.
3. What we see happening to immigrant families at the border is just another expression of mass incarceration - which we know full well is our enemy. When that system grows, we must always make it our business to fight back.
4. A huge percentage of immigrants to the United States are Black - including tens of thousands, more like hundreds of thousands, of people who've been targeted and deported. Many of the families being separated at the border are also Black.
5. Lastly, solidarity cannot be a game of chicken, where one group only steps up to help when they perceive the other group has done A,B, or C before they support them. We support people who've been wronged, who are experiencing injustice, because they need the help. Period.
Thank you! Your message works equally well for other minority groups. If we don't stand up for each other, one by one, they'll pick us off until there is no one left to speak up. Fighting for the rights of others is in effect fighting for my own rights.
I appreciate the thoughts in sentiments but, 1st. Where were they during our civil rights struggle? 2nd, where were they during our current ‘black lives matter’ struggle??? 3rd, once black people are free, all others are free by default. 4th...
4th, have you noticed that our movement got hijacked & derailed, specifically in the media, by this immigration issue...? This was simply a plot to do as such. ‘Simple. It’s a game...’ (in my Papa Dick Gregory voice)
Proof that it is racism (as if you need more) is that DJT would welcome Scandinavians with open arms - he said he wanted Norwegians
hey @ShaunKing this is happening today in NYC, would you retweet? https://www.facebook.com/events/179066509627377/?active_tab=discussion …
Thanks.
In what context? First and foremost should be ridding our nation of the traitors in Washington before they complete the bloodless coup. Mire families, not fewer, will be separated if we don't. There is no justice in a dictatorship.9
Shaun. I respect your opinion and thoughts, (hence why I follow you) you are misusing the King quote. Black ppl have had in your face, clear as day, injustice happening since Trayvon. And no other group has took a stand. So black need to sit on everyone else.
Simple. Don't break the law.
But you were ok when obama did it, hypocrite
Blame the law breaking parents for illegally crossing the border and putting their children in that position, nobody to blame but themselves
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