Blacks and Latinos don't you think its time we unite?

Question

We have both been through the minority struggles in the past same as other minorities and poor income whites. I think its time we put our past behind us and fight a new more important fight. That fight is against our leaders who send our poor and middle class children to get killed in a war we dont belong in. We also need change in our communities to promote ethnic acceptance and value. Who is with me?

Eat urself, You have a good point! I believe we should all unite. Its sad people dont agree with us but you guys who disagree are my enemy so let the games begin!

King Midas your right. Do you think your people are more supeior?

Answer 1

All my respect to King Midas. Even if i disagree with your premises (that hispanics have suffered from Anglo Saxon hegemony any less than blacks), I agree with your conclusion. Nothing is free. All of my respect and condolences to the enslaved and exploited.

Now, to answer the question and deliver my argument concerning King Midas' mistaken premise. Where do we start?

While it is natural for a North American African to be skeptical of the suffering of others, after all they have suffered enough, it is not the case that the average Latin American can claim an ancestry free from oppression and violence. I suggest that if anyone is interested in what i like to call America's Original Sin, to read an accomplished and renown author of the name Enrique Dussel. His work is impecable.

The Latin American original sin refers to the violent heritage of Latin Americans, the heritage which characterizes our own identity. You see, hispanics are not a race. Our identity is a construct based on a shared history of genocide, slavery and forced miscegination (rape on a monumental scale). The vast majority of hispanics, latinoamericanos, are mongrels (and i mean that in the most loving way) and barely any of us can claim a pure ancestry.
There is much blackness in us, there is much indian (I can barely grow a beard) and there is plenty of spanish in us. The black in us was enslaved, the indian was raped and murdered and the white, as violent as he was, came from the lowest sectors of Spanish society.... they were poor and they had much arab blood in them. Later waves of immigration brought to us jews, muslims, west indians and chinese as well as further waves of poor europeans. Miscegination took place to an extent that never took place in the US.
Still, we have racial issues. La Paz, Bolivia, is overseen by a million person indigenous ghetto. In Guatemala, a US instated dictator murdered around 30 000 people most of whom were ethnic Maya.
The most important conflict in Latin America though is not among races, but rather among social classes. There is a vast mestizo underclass that covers the continent heterogeneously. Atop is a US allied elite who exchange their countries' natural resources and cheap labor for US manufactured goods and protection.
Whenever democracy has been attempted in the South, the US has intervened. I wonder if the YA! audience is familiar with US interventions in Lat Am (Arbenz and Allende's murder as well as the many imposed dictators). Well, my point is that we have suffered no less than black slaves because many of us have black ancestry and those with indigenous ancestry have been equally enslaved into inhuman labor. We have also been the subject of genocide and are still burdened by the misery of forced labor in maquiladoras and fruit plantations.
US Blacks and Latinos, we share the gallows. If we have any intent to abandon our present state of submission, we must collaborate. We must unite.
No sect abandons power without a sttruggle. The US elite will not either. While my generation has learned much from the achievements of the Civil Rights movement, were both Black and Hispanic collaborated in destroying the anachronistic feudalism of the white man, the movement stopped short of achieving full equality or even reforming the system of exploitation. Today, we are all exploited alike in the 9 to 5.... turned down alike in ER... our history equally forgotten in the schools... our language insulted with impunity by the fascists in power.
But it is insufficient to say that Blacks and Hispanics must unite. Whites have been long oppressed too. The elite has used poor whites as a weapon against us all, lying to them, blaming us blacks and hispanics for their woes.

The population must unite in order to break the chains of those who murder us and enslave us. THE WORKERS OF THE WORLD MUST UNITE. All races, all colors. WE PRODUCE, THEY CONSUME. They get away with it because they have broken our alliance. United we will win. Unidos Venceremos.

Otherwise we will continue to live under the rich, we will continue our own misery if we remain alone. It is time for the working man to say ya basta! enough! kifaya! To show our solidarity to the oppressed muslims and to take down our common oppressors. We will persevere.

The leaders of the civil rights movement were our heroes as the leaders of the latin american insurrection are yours. Fidel Castro quotes MLK often and MLK quoted Che. We are thirdworlders, we are one. Not just in the US but in the world.

That is why the cry, no human being is illegal, should resound in the mouths of blacks and whites. Africans, Asians, Americans... we are all thirdworlders and we must either rebel or succumb to the rule of the Europeans once again.

As MLK said: injustice against one is injustice against all. Injustice anywhere is injustice everywhere.

As Camilo Torres said: the revolution is love. Those who protect the poor, god's chosen people, are doing god's work.

Answer 2

Unite against what? And why can't all humans unite just to unite as one? Why make divisions to an already divided world?

Answer 3

really, my history is a little vague could you answer a few questions fo me. How may hispanics were kidnapped and dragged across the Atlantic and forced into slavery? How many hispanics were hanged up until the 60's? How many hispanic leaders were killed or imprisoned so we could all have equal rights? So, my final question is How does it feel to be treated like blacks in America?

If you really want acceptance earn it like black people had to, nothing is free.

Answer 4

If blacks have a brain they know to stay away from the scorpian and keep their mouths on the cash cow! Nice try though! Recruitment not so enticing without money and power so adios! As if!

Answer 5

We were never at each other's throat...so uniting wont be hard..blacks and hispanics are already getting along...better than whites and hispanics

Answer 6

yeah!!! it's unfair that the usa is drafting all the blacks and latinos to fight the war on terror.....oh, wait...there is no draft, sorry, i'm a idiot....seems someone else is too.

Answer 7

why not drop race and just make it a class struggle instead

Answer 8

I completely agree. We should unite.

Answer 9

You should have posted this in the "jokes" section. I was laughing so hard my stomach hurt.

Answer 10

Yes, it is time