what i wish for…
i wish for every person who identifies as black and who grew up in the united states to have the opportunity to leave this country at least once and to see the world.
anywhere.
but preferably latin america to learn even more about what colonization and u.s. occupation has done to our sisters and brothers just south of us.
i also wish for those latin@s who grew up hating/disliking black americans to look into their own history and discover that their own roots contains some of the very history that they claim not to have and not to like.
yes, my latin@ homies. slavery touched your countries, too. if you’re going to love the patría, then love all of it. give me a Latin American country and I’ll SHOW you an afro population. don’t come for me, today. branqueamento/blanqueamiento is not the way to survive anymore. we all have more in common than you think.
and then i wish for black americans and latin@ americans to put all of that animosity and sadness that is destructive to both of our communities aside and fucking organize.
we would be some baaaaaaaaad ass mufuckas if and when we did.
viva la raza. viva la raça. one day, we’ll triumph. but we can’t do it separately.
