Black and Brown Unity

Muslim, Arab-American Voters Show Black People How To Exercise Power

January 26, 2024 Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report. Resist! Abandon Biden, Black America, Black and Brown Unity, Elections, Joe Biden

Historically, Black people in this country have allowed themselves to feel trapped by the racialized political duopoly. A feature of U.S. politics is to allow only two parties to play a decisive role in elections and for one of them to be designated as the white people’s party and the other as the Black party. Beginning after the civil war and until the 1960s, the democrats were the party of the segregated south, and thus the party for white people generally. Republicans, the party of Abraham Lincoln, became the de facto preference for Black people despite their willingness to shove Black interests under the bus when they felt the need to placate white voters.

Black And Brown Power Unite To Stop Deportation Raids

March 8, 2016 Kelly Hayes, www.truth-out.org Uncategorized Black and Brown Unity, Chicago, Immigrant Rights, Immigration, Solidarity

By Kelly Hayes for Truthout - With issues of mass incarceration and deportation hanging heavy over the current presidential race, both Black Lives Matter activists and immigration rights activists have had a great deal to say about the policies and commentaries of each potential commander in chief. But while hashtags like #SuperTuesday go viral and problematic award shows drag up questions about Black and Brown solidarity, some young people are forging ahead on the front lines, arm-in-arm with those whose issues many would divide from their own.

Community Wants Answers In Police Killing Of Undocumented Man

March 23, 2015 Candice Bernd, www.truth-out.org Resist! Black and Brown Unity, police brutality, Racial Justice, Undocumented

"Are you going to kill me?" That was the last thing Rubén García Villalpando reportedly asked Grapevine, Texas, Police Officer Robert Clark before Clark answered his question - in the affirmative. According to witnesses, García Villalpando had his hands up when Clark shot him twice, February 20, in Euless, Texas - a city technically outside the officer's jurisdiction. Clark's shooting of García Villalpando echoes what has become an all-too-familiar, tragic tale across the nation amid a national debate on the policing tactics used in communities of color, sparked initially by the killing of Michael Brown and subsequent protests in Ferguson, Missouri, which have come to the fore again recently with the release of a Department of Justice (DOJ) report detailing the city's systemic racist policing policies of collecting revenue off the backs of Black people.

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