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       Re: Uniting Americans
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: September 26, 2021, 10:14 pm
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  HTML https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-us-is-more-racially-diverse-than-ever-will-people-of-color-unify-politically/ar-AANVQPI
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       > In recent research, I found that a greater sense of solidarity
       among people of color leads many African Americans, Asian
       Americans and Latinos to support policies that would be useful
       for one of those subgroups, even if it is not relevant to their
       own. For instance, when thinking of themselves as “people of
       color,” they are more likely to support #BlackLivesMatter (a
       Black issue); a pathway to citizenship for unauthorized
       immigrants (a Latino issue); and more H1-B visas for
       high-skilled immigrants (an Asian American issue).
       >
       > This sense of solidarity with people of color can be sparked
       by reminding non-Whites about what they hold in common.
       --- End Quote ---
       Yes! This is why I prefer the term "non-white" over "POC", as
       the former emphasizes the oppressor we have in common, whereas
       the latter is a relic of the False Left "diversity" nonsense.
       --- Quote ---
       > In spring 2021, my research team and I undertook two online
       experiments, one with 641 Asian American adults and another with
       624 Latino adults, recruited through Dynata’s online platform,
       with each sample matching the distributions of gender, education
       and age in each population.
       >
       > We divided each group into two. Asian Americans and Latinos in
       the control group read an article about the gradual extinction
       of giant tortoises. The rest read about a group being treated as
       foreign and un-American, much as happens to members of their own
       community. Asian Americans read about Latinos, and vice versa.
       We then asked all participants whether the problems that African
       Americans, Asian Americans and Latinos face are too different
       for them to be allies; whether they supported a pathway to
       citizenship for undocumented immigrants; and whether they
       supported more H1-B visas for highly skilled immigrants.
       >
       > Among those who read about tortoises, Asian Americans were
       nearly 9 percent less likely than Latinos to support a pathway
       to citizenship. But when we reminded them of their shared
       experience of being treated as foreigners, not only did that gap
       disappear, but both groups become substantially more likely to
       support such policies.
       >
       > Similarly, when Latinos read about tortoises, they were about
       6 percent less likely than Asian Americans to support more
       generous policies toward highly skilled immigrants (e.g.,
       increasing number of H1-B visas). But after reading about
       another group marginalized as foreign, the gap again
       disappeared, and both Asians and Latinos become more likely to
       support such policies.
       >
       > In ongoing work, my lab has found this dynamic among other
       non-White groups that are less high-profile, including Middle
       Eastern and North African individuals.
       --- End Quote ---
       Firstly, Western civilization is currently forcing tortoises to
       reproduce:
  HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-right/western-civilization-sustainable-evil/msg6759/#msg6759
       which is another reason why we need to kill Western civilization
       ASAP.
       Secondly, the above study shows that folkism is indeed realistic
       provided we put in the work to make it happen.
       --- Quote ---
       > People of color are not automatic allies of one another’s
       civic goals. But when reminded of how their experiences are
       alike, they can become steadfast allies.
       --- End Quote ---
       Thirdly, back when I was working with JAM, he initially believed
       that by producing propaganda emphasizing our common oppression
       of all non-Jews by Jews, non-Jewish "whites" would abandon
       "whiteness" en masse and join the folk. We all saw how that
       turned out.....
       #Post#: 9283--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Uniting Americans
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: October 8, 2021, 4:05 am
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       Always reject our enemies' attempts to flatter us into division!
  HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/white-senators-racist-compliment-teachable-124222648.html
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       > President Joe Biden's nomination of the Honorable Lucy H. Koh
       to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is a historic choice.
       Koh would be the first female Korean American federal circuit
       judge in the country's history. But to be fair, Koh has been
       breaking barriers in our judicial system throughout her career.
       >
       > A brilliant jurist with an unimpeachable record, Koh was
       welcomed into the Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation
       proceeding Wednesday with this greeting from the committee's
       ranking member, Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa. Quoting his
       daughter, Grassley said the "Korean people" can make a lot out
       of nothing." "So I congratulate you and your people," he added.
       > ...
       > We've seen this play before.
       >
       > In 2018, an intelligence analyst was badgered by
       then-President Donald Trump, who was obsessed with finding out
       where her "people" were "from." Sound familiar? He also labeled
       her the "pretty Korean lady" who should have been a part of
       negotiations with North Korea.
       >
       > Those who advance these kinds of stereotypes are deliberately
       creating a false and damaging binary. On one side are the "good"
       and acceptable minority communities, and on the other are
       communities deemed inferior. These categories are also created
       to highlight and praise nonwhite Americans who have sufficiently
       assimilated into American — read: white — society. This is
       terrible for minority groups, who find themselves pitted against
       one another, and it creates a wildly counterproductive cultural
       dynamic.
       > ...
       > it is enabled by language and rhetoric that separates
       Americans into groups: not the collective we, but my people and
       your people.
       --- End Quote ---
       More about Grassley (and his people):
  HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Grassley#Israel_Anti-Boycott_Act
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       > In April 2017, Grassley co-sponsored the Israel Anti-Boycott
       Act (s. 720), which would make it a federal crime for Americans
       to encourage or participate in boycotts against Israel and
       Israeli settlements in the West Bank if protesting actions by
       the Israeli government.[117][118] In 2019, Grassley was one of
       14 Republican senators to sign a letter from Marco Rubio that
       involved condemning the BDS movement.[119]
       --- End Quote ---
       #Post#: 9312--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Uniting Americans
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: October 9, 2021, 10:55 pm
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       When our enemies in the US tell us they are not American, we
       should believe them:
  HTML https://www.amren.com/commentary/2021/10/an-american-son/
       --- Quote ---
       > I always felt cheated.
       >
       > It wasn’t because I lacked for anything. I had an idyllic
       childhood. My childhood was so normal that in the new America,
       I’m a freak. Two parents (of differing sexes, a necessary
       clarification these days), a nice house in the suburbs, a
       stay-at-home mom, a hard-working father with a stable,
       nonpolitical job. A yard, a friendly dog, home-cooked meals, and
       a kitchen always bursting with food. A family that would get me
       through anything — if there were anything to get through.
       >
       > There’s no trauma in my past. No abuse. No bullying at school.
       No diseases. No racial slurs around the dinner table. No
       terrible secrets or horrible injuries to overcome. Sensible
       center-left political views. No guns. No violence. Up until the
       time I stepped into a boxing ring well into adulthood, I had
       never been in a real fight in my life.
       > ...
       > I am a White Nationalist. I’m writing this to convince you
       that you should be a White Nationalist — if you aren’t already.
       And more than that, I’m writing to tell you that there is almost
       nothing of this country that can be saved — or should be.
       >
       > The great imperative of our time is for the white European
       population within the United States to secure its existence by
       creating a homeland independent of the present American system.
       All other platforms, programs, and issues are distractions or
       deceptions. All other political movements, creeds, and beliefs
       matter only insofar as they lead people towards or away our
       position.
       --- End Quote ---
       Our great imperative is to stop you from succeeding. Do we
       really want another Israel in the New World?
       --- Quote ---
       > At a certain point, the story of America — and the story of
       humanity — stopped being about the warriors, the pioneers, and
       the creators. Instead, it became a story about the victims
       --- End Quote ---
       In other words, the story stopped being about Westerners and
       became a story about those who lived on the receiving end of
       Western colonialism - including Americans.
       --- Quote ---
       > America at its core can only be defined as one of two ways —
       as an extension of Europe on the continent of North America, or
       as a deliberate separation from the Old World.
       --- End Quote ---
       We claimed the latter definition, and you are increasingly
       agreeing with us:
       --- Quote ---
       > at its core the American ideal is that “we have it in our
       power to begin the world anew.” And so we did — and destroyed
       ourselves.
       --- End Quote ---
       No, we destroyed Western civilization. Or at least we have
       started to. My concern is that we finish what we have started.
       --- Quote ---
       > “America” did not accomplish anything. Whites did. European
       Americans did. “American” accomplishments overwhelmingly belong
       to them — and them alone. But the white historic American nation
       and “America” are two different things.
       --- End Quote ---
       But if America can destroy Western civilization (not just in the
       US but all over the world), that will be one of the most
       important accomplishments by any country in all of history.
       --- Quote ---
       > Looking around the contemporary United States, who can doubt
       that America is evolving into simply the logical conclusion of
       its founding ideals?
       --- End Quote ---
       I agree that America is evolving into what it is destined to be:
       Western civilization's greatest adversary. Its evolution is
       still far from complete, however. We are here to guide it
       through the remainder.
       --- Quote ---
       > And we have more in common with our racial kinsmen in England,
       Germany, the Netherlands, and the other nations of the Occident
       than we do our nonwhite “fellow Americans.”
       --- End Quote ---
       I am sure you do. That is why you are not American. Americans
       have more in common with not only other Americans regardless of
       ethnic background, but with all fellow victims of Western
       colonialism all over the world regardless of ethnic background.
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       > America today is simply enforced mediocrity.
       --- End Quote ---
       I do not exactly consider it mediocre to become Western
       civilization's greatest adversary. Which is not to say that we
       care about avoiding mediocrity in itself - only Homo Hubris
       Westerners care about that. But it is the simple truth that the
       final destruction of Western civilization will be totally epic
       if we manage to pull it off.
       --- Quote ---
       > Another world is possible — but there is something standing in
       the way. That something is America.
       --- End Quote ---
       For which we are thankful to America.
       --- Quote ---
       > We are not “Americans,” for how can one be a citizen of an
       abstraction? We are Europeans, whites who have conquered the
       North American wilderness and are prepared to claim our
       birthright of a nation where we are free to be ourselves. We
       know that this farce you call a country is a nightmare that just
       rolls on and on, and we want no part of it.
       --- End Quote ---
       We will treat you no differently than how we treat Israelis.
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       Re: Uniting Americans
   DIR By: guest55
       Date: October 10, 2021, 12:49 pm
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       > And we have more in common with our racial kinsmen in England,
       Germany, the Netherlands,
       --- End Quote ---
       You have absolutely nothing in common with me and I'm a blonde
       haired blue-eyed German. I'd rather commit suicide than live in
       a country run by your barbarian types! I'm looking forward to
       witnessing your complete destruction!
       #Post#: 9374--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Uniting Americans
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: October 13, 2021, 11:32 pm
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       Who is American? Anyone living in the US who agrees with the
       following analysis:
  HTML https://authenticamericandream.blogspot.com/2021/10/six-years-of-constitutional-crisis.html
       and Dare to Dream for America generally.
       #Post#: 9395--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Uniting Americans
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: October 14, 2021, 9:34 pm
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       More people are understanding that we must not let our enemies
       divide us:
  HTML https://twitter.com/NickCho/status/1446661176310435844
       --- Quote ---
       > Dear white people: Keep ANY talk about Asians out of your damn
       mouths if you think you’re gonna try to use us as ANY KIND of
       wedge against our Black and brown friends and neighbors. This
       shit will not be tolerated and you will be shut the fuck down.
       --- End Quote ---
       Friendly reminder: you will need firearms to shut them down
       properly.
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       Re: Uniting Americans
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: October 23, 2021, 9:40 pm
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       Someone who gets it!
  HTML https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-problem-with-the-term-asian-american-according-to-jay-caspian-kang/ar-AAPwmco
       --- Quote ---
       > Asian American, the term used to describe Kang and millions of
       others whose ancestry can be traced back to the continent of
       Asia, has never truly fit.
       >
       > In his book, Kang takes aim at the idea of a cohesive, Asian
       American identity and calls for a reimagination of it instead.
       > ...
       > Growing up in Boston and North Carolina as the child of Korean
       immigrants, how did you think about yourself in terms of race?
       >
       > At the beginning, I didn't think about it very much. I think
       that there was some form of suppression because my parents are
       so aggressively assimilative. Part of me wonders why they were
       like that. But at the same time, I also think that they saw that
       as the only method of survival. They thought, perhaps correctly,
       that if they [worked to assimilate] then their kids would have
       an easier path to moving up in America.
       >
       > By the time I started noticing that I was different --
       sometime around second, third or fourth grade -- I found myself
       identifying more with the Black students at our school than the
       White students.
       --- End Quote ---
       Yes! This is the first step along the path to Americanness
       (which your Eurocentrist parents never discovered)!
       --- Quote ---
       > Isn't there value in drawing parallels between the
       discrimination faced by early Asian immigrants and the
       challenges that Asian Americans face today?
       >
       > I think it's okay to say we as a people might [be
       discriminated against] as other people have had it happen before
       us. That's a little different than saying we are those other
       people.
       >
       > To think about these things clearly, we need to think about
       the distinct mass of people who came post-1965 as perhaps even
       its own identity. I've felt more in common with [a former
       coworker whose family came from Nigeria post-1965] than I did a
       whole host of other Asian people, especially those who had long
       histories in the United States.
       --- End Quote ---
       Well done! This is what we need!
       --- Quote ---
       > Do you see any value in a broad, umbrella term like Asian
       Americans?
       >
       > I would just ask why "immigrant" wouldn't work better.
       >
       > There's something about the post-1965 immigration experience
       that would lend itself to a great deal of solidarity that would
       be broader than just the Asian American category. It would bring
       in these sort of natural alliances that already exist.
       >
       > If you go to a Korean restaurant in Los Angeles and you go
       into the kitchen, you're going to see Mexican dudes and El
       Salvadoran dudes talking to Korean dudes in some mix of Korean
       and Spanish. Those types of examples are everywhere. If we can
       create a capacious idea of identity that includes those types of
       moments, that's a much stronger form of identity and will make
       people feel more politically active than this term that we seem
       to argue about what it actually means.
       > ...
       > If we change the politics and make it about the concerns of
       poor immigrants, then suddenly there are absolutely open
       pathways to all sorts of solidarity with different people. I
       think that's in the end what we want.
       > ...
       > It requires a type of treason against one's class and one's
       race. That's what's necessary at this point. I do think it's
       difficult. I do think that most people won't do it. But I do
       think if a small group of very influential people do it, that it
       will be massively influential.
       --- End Quote ---
       The solidarity we really want is between all victims of Western
       colonialism, but what is proposed above is already much better
       than dividing people by ethnic background.
       --- Quote ---
       > The book itself is a question of why we accept the political
       identities that are given to us. Is there a way we can think
       about our lives to try and create better political possibilities
       that we might not have thought of before? If the book does
       anything, I hope that it empowers people to think through their
       own lives and maybe come up with something better than I can of
       how we should navigate the next 20 to 30 years.
       --- End Quote ---
       We should spend the next 20-30 years (or however long it takes)
       killing every aspect of Western civilization everywhere it can
       be found in the world. America is destined to take a leading
       role in this, but first the US has to recognize itself as
       American instead of Western.
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       Re: Uniting Americans
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: November 12, 2021, 11:56 pm
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       As I predicted, our enemies will try to divide us and then
       conquer us:
  HTML https://vdare.com/articles/if-republicans-were-smart-they-d-brand-democrats-as-the-black-party-gaining-hispanic-and-asian-votes
       --- Quote ---
       > if Republicans branded the Democrat Party as the “Black
       Party,” they might just push enough Asians and Hispanics to vote
       GOP that it secures solid majorities
       > ...
       > I think the GOP can make inroads with Asians and other
       non-whites such as Hispanics, who are not huge fans of Black
       Lives Matter or blacks in general.
       > ...
       > While non-whites pummel each other, whites can watch … and
       wait … and rebuild. Then when the time is right, and just enough
       nonwhites abandon the Black Party, whites can retake their
       institutions.
       --- End Quote ---
       Whether or not their strategy works will depend on whether we
       succeed in:
  HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/psychological-decolonization/
       fast enough.
       #Post#: 9786--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Uniting Americans
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: November 15, 2021, 11:12 pm
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       Written with Canada in mind but can apply to the US also:
  HTML https://ricochet.media/en/2538/black-people-in-canada-are-not-settlers
       --- Quote ---
       > In a recent Vice article, writer Ashleigh-Rae Thomas engaged
       two Indigenous and two Black thought leaders to reflect on
       whether Black people in Canada can or should be seen as
       settlers.
       > ...
       > Thomas and each of her interviewees independently note that
       descendants of enslaved Africans cannot be properly considered
       settlers of Canada because their migration to the lands now
       claimed by the Canadian state was not a product of their freely
       and fully consented choice but rather the product of slavery and
       the trans-Atlantic slave trade, a primary engine of global
       capitalism from the 1600s to the mid-1800s.
       > ...
       > So, what’s a more historically accurate way of describing
       Black people whose ancestors were dehumanized, forcibly removed
       from Africa, trafficked and transplanted to and through the
       Western world and re-routed and re-rooted in lands now claimed
       as Canadian soil?
       > ...
       > A term that more effectively captures the routes/roots of the
       Black presence in Canada is “forcibly displanted Africans.” The
       shorthands I use for this term are “displanted Africans,” “the
       forcibly displanted,” “displanted people,” or, simply, “the
       displanted.”
       > ...
       > Central to this offering of a new descriptor is the word
       “displanted,” a portmanteau of the words “displaced” and
       “replanted.” To the fundamentally unjust benefit of European
       powers and people, through the calamitous ravages of slavery and
       the trans-Atlantic slave trade and colonization, African people
       were displaced from their ancestral lands and replanted,
       primarily in soils across the Atlantic Ocean, including the
       Caribbean, Latin America, the United States, and of course
       Canada.
       >
       > This displacement was forcible because it was violently
       imposed and executed through a European-headquartered global
       network of inhumanely coercive institutions and practices that,
       on catastrophic scales, facilitated widespread and systematic
       mass kidnapping, trafficking, terror and murder of African
       people for the purposes of extracting their labour to build
       Europe’s “New World.” The United Nations conservatively
       estimates that 15 million Africans lost their lives and liberty
       to slavery and the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
       > ...
       > Embedded in the concept of displantedness is the recognition
       that African people were involuntarily uprooted, enslaved, and
       scattered by Europeans, then reinserted into land not their own,
       into the soil of Turtle Island’s Indigenous Peoples.
       > ...
       > Aina-Nia Ayo’dele, founder and managing director of Sacred
       Women International, is known to say that there’s a space for
       co-existence, understanding and healing between Indigenous and
       Black people in Canada through the correlative fact that
       “Indigenous people have had their land stolen, and African
       people have been stolen from their land.”
       >
       > At the root of this unique and interconnected fact, we find a
       solid grounding for reconciliation between Black and Indigenous
       people in Canada, while also honouring that there are thousands
       in this country that are of both Indigenous and African
       heritage.
       >
       > Global capitalism’s centuries-old symbiotic sins of
       colonization of Indigenous lands and the enslavement of Africans
       is not just a point of intersecting sufferings of Indigenous and
       Black people. It is also a potentially powerful point of
       departure for healing, understanding and mutually reinforcing
       resistance against the afterlives of colonization and slavery.
       >
       > The added value of the term “forcibly displaced Africans” is
       that it doesn’t cover only enslaved Africans in Canada and their
       direct descendants but all people of indigenous African heritage
       who, through generations of (post-)colonially forced
       displacement and migration, now find themselves in Canada as
       first, second- or third- generation Canadians.
       >
       > Within Canada’s populations of African and/or Caribbean
       heritage, it is common to hear elders and newcomers alike openly
       express that they would have preferred to stay in the lands of
       their birth, but they left and came to Canada because their home
       countries couldn’t provide adequate access to quality health,
       education, housing and employment opportunities for them and
       their future families. The lack of such supports is a product
       and process of the colonization and neo-colonization of African
       and the Caribbean, which Canada is deeply implicated in and has
       benefited from.
       >
       > The violently forced processes of colonization and
       post-colonial structural adjustment programs that handcuff the
       development and independence of Caribbean and African countries
       have effectively eroded these countries’ abilities to provide
       such services sustainably. In other words, Western colonization
       of the Caribbean and Africa acts as the displacing push/pull
       factor that accounts for much, if not most, of the Black
       presence in Canada historically and still today.
       >
       > This is why current Black populations in Canada are also to be
       considered forcibly displanted Africans.
       --- End Quote ---
       My only criticism is with the overemphasis on "Africans".
       Western colonialism happened all over the world, and its
       consequences drive migration trends of formerly colonized
       peoples regardless of region. Therefore there is no need to
       distinguish between former victims of Western colonialism
       according to location of ancestral origin (let alone one based
       on Western geographical concepts!). Unification should be
       between all victims of Western colonialism against our common
       enemies:
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       #Post#: 10352--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Uniting Americans
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: December 30, 2021, 10:25 pm
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  HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/woman-defending-black-lives-border-130019725.html
       --- Quote ---
       > So much of her is hyphenated, not just her name: Felicia
       Rangel-Samponaro. With caramel skin and curly brown hair that’s
       often tied back, she can pass as Latina.
       >
       > But she identifies as Black.
       >
       > On the Texas-Mexico border, she’s emerged as a vigorous
       defender of immigrants, and that work often forces her to reckon
       with how race and ethnicity — real and perceived — shape lives
       on the border, including her own.
       >
       > "There's a lot of oppression, discrimination and racism that
       goes on, on both sides of the border," she said.
       >
       > Rangel-Samponaro's background has allowed the 45-year-old
       American to win over skeptics who find they can relate to her,
       sometimes as Black, sometimes as Latino.
       >
       > But being a Black border activist is still challenging.
       >
       > Sometimes, it means getting detained by U.S. Customs, then
       subjected to a cavity search. Other times, it means confronting
       Central American migrants cracking racist jokes or correcting
       people on both sides of the border who assume her white male
       employee is her boss.
       > ...
       > Now she’s one of the few American volunteers willing to cross
       to Reynosa, a dangerous border town where thousands of migrants
       have camped. Although volunteers from Black churches and Haitian
       activists appeared in the fall to help a caravan of Haitian
       migrants, they soon vanished. Rangel-Samponaro remained,
       championing immigrants, particularly Black migrants beset by
       discrimination she knew all too well.
       > ...
       > “I've never been called the N-word so much until I moved
       here,” she said. “Which was actually pretty surprising coming
       from other minorities, which I would also tell them as well,
       ‘From one minority to the other: You should be ashamed of
       yourself.’”
       >
       > She told Latinos who hurled such slurs that they might become
       targets of bigotry themselves.
       >
       > “I always let them know: Once you leave your little bubble of
       the Valley, and if you ever went to Houston or another major
       city here in the U.S., you will be looked upon the same way you
       are looking at me.”
       >
       > As her son grew, he noticed how some locals treated her.
       >
       > “He asked me yesterday when we were leaving Walmart, why was I
       stopped over everyone else, and I was honest, ‘It's because I'm
       Black. That's why they stopped me. They think I steal.’ And he
       says, ‘Will they do that to me?’ and I said, ‘No, they won't.
       You look white. They'll let you pass,’” she said. “My mom didn't
       have those conversations with me and my sisters. And I wish she
       had. So I'm very honest with my son.”
       >
       > Her worst fear: That her son will pass as white, betraying
       their Black ancestors. It’s one thing if people assume he’s
       white, as they did with her mother. It’s quite another if he
       takes advantage by presenting himself that way.
       >
       > “You never pass,” she said of the way she and her sisters were
       raised. “If we see a Black person passing, then there is
       immediate disgust.”
       >
       > Passing as white would make it easier to work in Mexico, she
       said. White migrant advocates seem to automatically command
       respect from locals in Reynosa.
       --- End Quote ---
       These locals should be prohibited from reproducing.
       --- Quote ---
       > But instead of passing, Rangel-Samponaro has tried to leverage
       being biracial.
       >
       > When she tells Mexican officials about her father, they smile
       and give her high fives. When she tells them she’s Black,
       they’re surprised.
       >
       > “In their minds, Black people don’t cross into Mexico to help
       others,” she said.
       >
       > Black migrants usually assume she’s Latina. So she makes a
       point of saying that she identifies as Black and that, “We are
       going through the same struggles.”
       >
       > Among Latino migrants, she’s learned to recognize when they
       use Spanish racial slurs and stops them, patiently explaining
       that it’s offensive because she’s Black. For her, it’s a
       teachable moment.
       >
       > “To a lot of them, being Black is like the lowest thing you
       can be,” she said. “…I'm their first contact with a Black
       person, and this Black person is paying your rent, feeding you
       and your family, providing education to your child. So I hope
       over the years I've changed the opinion of some.”
       > ...
       > Rangel-Samponaro stopped at the back of the camp where
       Haitians lived, at a makeshift kitchen where they cook. A woman
       was preparing soup, chopping yams and green beans supplied by
       Rangel-Samponaro.
       >
       > Many local stores won’t sell to Black migrants, she said.
       Employers won’t hire them, taxis won’t drive them and landlords
       refuse to rent to them. So Rangel-Samponaro does it for them,
       and locals assume she’s Latina. It’s the one instance where she
       passes for the sake of her work.
       >
       > “I never say I’m Mexican even though I am,” she said. “It
       would be the same as if I was trying to pass as white. Passing
       is passing.”
       >
       > She's rented apartments for about 20 Haitian migrants
       elsewhere in Reynosa, but even when she’s passing as Latina, her
       power to help Black migrants in Mexico is limited.
       >
       > When she picked up several Haitian families walking outside
       Reynosa in the fall, planning to drive them into the city, she
       was stopped by Mexican soldiers. They took the families into
       custody, threatened to detain her and sent the migrants to the
       southern state of Veracruz, where she wired them money for food
       and lodging.
       >
       > She blamed deteriorating conditions at the camp on the Mexican
       government and Biden administration, which extended a Trump
       pandemic policy that bars many migrants from seeking asylum.
       >
       > “They need Title 42 to keep Black asylum seekers out,” she
       said recently as she waited on the border bridge to return to
       the U.S., referring to the public health law invoked by the
       Trump administration.
       >
       > She was nervous as she approached U.S. Customs. It had been
       months since officers stopped her while she was crossing with
       fellow volunteer Cavazos, but she was still shaken.
       >
       > She had never been stopped on the bridge before, never had her
       car searched and X-rayed — twice. Then she was escorted inside
       the customs office and cavity searched by two Latina officers as
       a Latino supervisor watched.
       >
       > Rangel-Samponaro could tell the officers suspected she had
       drugs in her Honda SUV. It felt like racial profiling. On video
       she recorded with her phone until officers confiscated it, she
       shouts, “You only searched me because we’re minorities!”
       >
       > “I told them, ‘You’re doing it to your own people,’” she said.
       > ...
       > As for the future, last week, Rangel-Samponaro started
       building her own migrant shelter in Reynosa. Mexican officials
       initially said she would be able to accept only Central American
       families, but she insisted on housing Black migrants too.
       >
       > “People are uncomfortable when I call out the racism, but
       imagine how I feel?” she said. “I’m uncomfortable all of the
       time. So no, I have no sympathy for people who are feeling
       uncomfortable because I am calling it what it is. You should be
       uncomfortable, and maybe then you’ll stop or tell your friend to
       stop.”
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