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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
Black immigrants and refugees have just as much at stake in the fight to make Black Lives Matter as African Americans do.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Black people, we are fully deserving of the room and space to fully express our humanity. This is what Black Lives Matter is truly about.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
If black lives mattered, I believe that policing and immigration enforcement would not be the devastating force that it is in our communities.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my own personal experience, I've had different family members who have been held in immigration detention because they've had some sort of challenge financially, and they were making difficult decisions, and that led to their immigration detention and, eventually, deportation.
- Devalued
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's really important that we understand the ways in which blackness plays out, right, and discrimination against black people impacts different communities in different ways but ultimately leaves them undermined and really devalued in our society.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm really looking for an agenda that looks at safety for our communities beyond policing.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Antiblack racism is not only happening in the United States. It's actually happening all across the globe.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think about issues like climate change, and how six of the 10 worst impacted nations by climate change are actually on the continent of Africa. People are reeling from all sorts of unnatural disasters, displacing them from their ancestral homes and leaving them without a chance at making a decent living.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
Black Lives Matter is really an affirmation for our people. It's a love note for our people, but it's also a demand. We know that the system was not designed for justice for us.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
We deserve to live in a world where there's no impunity, but beyond this question of impunity, there are all these structures that are actually doing a disservice to our people.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
Black Lives Matter has been viral, and people are taking it, appropriating it, and using it however they see fit.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
We came in as organizers before creating the Black Lives Matter network and project, and we are still organizers, strategists, political thinkers, and philosophers, so we actually have a lot ideas and a lot of really thought out strategies.
- Disaster
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- Nov 07, 2020
Trump's racism has clearly driven his policy decisions during his first year in office - from his Muslim ban and his despicable treatment of DREAMers to his ruthless ramp-up of immigration raids and the callous termination of protections for Haitians and Salvadorans who fled natural disaster and violence.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
As an immigrant justice advocate, I, of course, want legal status for everyone trying to make it in this country.
- Dream
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- Nov 07, 2020
I call on Democrats to use their leverage to fight for a clean DREAM Act and to reject Trump's racist agenda - not only in word but in deed.
- Chipping
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many of the concessions that leading Democrats seem willing to make - from cutting diversity visas to chipping away at family visas - would be made on the backs of black immigrants, people from Africa and the Caribbean who deserve these policies to remain intact as some of the few legal tools they have to immigrate to this country.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020