I am sharing a post from a friend of mine with a bit of inspiration and a call for action in this post-US election mess. It is time for those of us post-deportation/return to figure out what we will do, because a Trump presidency will also affect those of us south of the border.
I’m calling on those of you who want to bring collective efforts together across borders. Part of what Azul says is that we need to stop thinking small, and that applies to how far movements reach.
From a Mexico perspective, we need to pressure for a government that stands for its people who will be affected by an police state with immigration policy. We already see it in the Mexico-Guatemala border which has been known to be the extension of the US-Mexico border approach.
Remember when the world let Hitler happen? Well, let’s learn from the past and let’s have urgency. Our lives, communities, countries and regions are at stake.
Y’all, what a time. Trump actually won the presidency. I cannot believe I typed that, but in this shitshow year of our Lord 2016, anything seems possible (provided it is the worst possible outcome). We can blame a lot of people- third party voters, people who weren’t fully on board, people who didn’t go for the lesser of two evils. This list could be long as hell, really, but that’s not the point.
The point is that people of color have been saying this has been such a racist place for such a long fucking time and now that most people’s humanities are being questioned (at the expense of so many lives) now y’all are listening. It has been this bad for a long ass time. Welcome to the fucking tragedy that is America. There are millions of people who voted for Trump and who would have voted for him…
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