Let me say first that I live in a mostly AA neighborhood,

[sadoldgirl]

and have learned over more than 25years about the
problems they face.About 15% of AAs are in this area.

I also live in a city with 20% Latinos, if not more.

I understand the special problems the AA community
faces and a lot of the history in this country built on
the back of their ancestors.

Yet, I have not heard as many complaints from latinos
as from the black communities, and believe me, they have
plenty of sufferings on their backs, from way back in the
past and increasingly now.

So, maybe we aught to consider their plight, and especially
the ones of the children escaping countries we ruined, as
much as that of the black community.

How about it, can we share our compassion and
the grievances all together?

[valerief]

1. Complaining about who complains more. Good lord! Welcome to my FI club.

[sadoldgirl]

2. No,what I wanted to point out is

that we hear an unbelievable amount about the black

community problems, yet not so much about the

latinos, which is the fastest growing population

in the States, even though they have a lot of
serious problems as well.

[brush]

4. The AA and Latino communities have many of the same problems of oppression

The AA community has had to develop over the centuries a history of protest to get attention addressed to the enduring racism it has experienced and continues to experience.


The Latino community is getting more vocal in seeing the necessity to protest, to get in the streets and make their grievances known.

Solidarity between the two communities would go a long way in helping both communities. Unfortunately we are pitted against each other. It's the old divide and conquer routine, and it works against people on both sides who can't see that.

[Ron Green]

3. I understand what you're saying, and it is a complicated issue.

The ideal is to make communities that are connected, diverse and strong, able to resist the oppression of the exploiter class. But AAs and Latinos in this country have such different cultural histories that it's hard to develop remedies that work across the board. "Identity politics" both serves a given ethnic community and at the same time prevents some kinds of progress in broader place-making.

I believe, though, that working class solidarity, as in the message of Bernie Sanders, is the best environment to nurture cross-cultural understanding.