The latest mass shooting in Allen, Tx., by Mexican-American — a citizen for anyone hoping to blame immigrants — Mauricio Garcia, 33 years old.
Mauricio was kicked out of the military after a few months once they figured out he had serious mental issues. But never fear, because in Texas anyone can purchase any number of weapons no matter how unstable they are, and no matter how many white supremacy posts they make online. Mauricio commented on the wedding photos below where the groom, bride, and their friends and family celebrated in nazi clothes and a nazi-decorated car.
Also, don’t miss Mauricio’s Hitler emoji in bottom right of photos:
But Mauricio isn’t unusual or unique. He is one the growing number of non-Black people of color who have been lured in and joined the white supremacy movement.
People who don’t pay attention are acting surprised that a Mexican-American can be a white supremacist. Just like they act surprised that Cuban-Americans vote republican. And the faux surprise extends to current South Asian presidential candidates Nikki Haley — real name Nimarata Nikki Randhawa Haley, and Vivek Ramaswamy are fully bought into white supremacy.
They in turn follow in the steps of Bobby Jindal — real name Piyush Jindal more recently, Andrew Yang, as people who bank their political careers on attacking Black Americans.
Black people have long known and dealt with our own who decide to do the work of white supremacy and harm the Black community. We’ve been dealing with it for hundreds of years so we aren’t new to the idea that our own can and will be sellouts.
From recently sellouts like Herschel Walker, Clarence Thomas, Tim Scott, Candace Owens, The Breakfast Club, and Killer Mike, and all the way to that group of Black preachers who prostrated themselves to Trump’s greasy hands in the Oval Office.
Ignore Candace Owens, Nina Turner, Tim Scott, The Shade Room, & The Breakfast Club
That’s right. Ignore them. Shun them. Turn them off. Don’t follow them online, don’t donate to them, and don’t promote…
Black people also know that in America in general, and the republican party specifically, there’s always money for anyone who wants to harm Black people.
And unfortunately we are seeing the fruits of decades of GOP marketing to the Latino/Hispanic, Asian, South Asian, and the middle eastern communities.
They have been so effective that the January 6th Insurrection was co-led by Ali Alexander — real name Ali Abdul-Razaq Akbar — an Arab man who says he is Catholic, is bi-sexual, an accused pedeophile… and a Black Arab. Ali is literally the living embodiment of everything white supremacists hate but they willingly followed him because he agreed with them that Black people are the root cause of all that is wrong with America.
We just saw Enrique Tarrio Cuban Afro-Latino and CEO of Latinos for Trump get convicted for also co-leading the January 6th insurrection with fellow Latinos like these fools:
And Vivek had the gall to be loud and wrong on CNN while telling Don Lemon that the NRA helped Black people during the civil rights movement. That argument was so ahistorical and stupid that Don, who was reportedly fired for his pushback (and workplace harassment issues) properly told Vivek he was absolutely wrong about the civil rights movement and that he was wrong to try to tell a Black man about our own history. Please also don’t miss useless Poppy Harlow who represents so much that is wrong about American media, being useless and checking her phone instead of correcting Vivek or at the least supporting her co-host.
What is the appeal that draws in non-Black POC to the republican party even though their policies actively hurt POC and their rhetoric harms the community?
Some will ask the opposite question: What policies do Democrats have that appeal to non-Black POC?
The answers can be complex, of course, since neither group is a monolith, are not the same ethnicity, and they do not have the same American experience as one another.
Mexicans in California are not the same as Cubans in Florida, as Dominicans in New York, or Mexicans in Texas. They aren’t the same as Venezuelans, Colombians, Argentinians, Salvadorans, or Puerto Ricans. There are dozens of nations that make up South and Central America, and dozens more that make of the Caribbean. The people are not the same, don’t have the same history, aren’t coming from the same form of government, and are sometimes coming from nations that have been at war with one another.
None of this should sound new though, because they are exactly like the nations that make up Europe and who also all made their way here despite their centuries of war against one another. Because one group is predominately white and the other are brown, Black, and white, the reception by Americans and thus the integration and transition has been much more difficult.
And in those difficulties reside many of the political differences we are seeing.
We have long known that the largest “minority” group is Latino/Hispanic and we were told as far back as the 1970’s that their political, financial, and societal impact would impact the entire nation in all ways possible.
The binary issues long understood as exclusively Black and White would be much more complex because the new majority-minority would be brown, Black, and white — since Latino/Hispanic can be any color -despite many Americans refusal to understand that simple concept.
The demographic changes fueled the race for the political parties to capture the largest share of the new majority-minority. It was clear that white people would latch on to republicans and Black people would stay with the democrats but what would happen to Latino/Hispanic voters — both current citizens and those arriving from the 1960’s to now?
So far, democrats are winning the majority of the Latino/Hispanic and Asian vote. It must also be mentioned that red states also restrict voting, gerrymander, and do all they can to prevent democratic voters — Black and brown — so they can keep their majorities. The media though will spread misinformation about how Latinos vote and conveniently leave out that the Biden/Harris ticket got 66% of the Latino vote nationally, winning in Texas and getting more in Florida with the singular exception of Cubans voters.
Chart: How U.S. Latinos Voted in the 2020 Presidential Election
Talk about the Latino vote surged after incumbent President Donald Trump picked up Florida’s 29 electoral votes early…
But republicans continue to specifically work to appeal to Latino/Hispanic voters using the following wedge issues:
Catholicism/religion
Abortion rights
Gun rights
Anti-government sentiment
Closing borders to prevent their recent immigrants real or perceived “enemies” from immegrating
And, the biggest appeal of all — Anti-Blackness.
The anti-Blackness is next level because almost all Latino/Hispanic people have African DNA because all have pieces of the African diaspora as a result of the slave trade. No matter how white their skin is, Black folk been in all the Americas and Caribbean nations for centuries as you can see it in all Latino/Hispanic cultures, food, music, and traditions.
It would be easy to see our struggle for freedom in this country as a shared experience because our struggle and fight for freedom and equality was not only copied the world over — and still is — but it is our struggle and the victories our folk won with blood and bodies, that make this society receptive to all other people — not only Latino/Hispanic folk, but all the still arriving Europeans, Ukraine being the most prominent.
And it must be mentioned that there were plenty of Latino/Hispanic, Asian, and South Asian freedom fighters who joined in the fight. Latino people in particular been fighting racism in this nation for well over a century. And Asians, who have long been targeted for discrimination and had to survive internment, before then being blamed for economic problems in the 1980’s and 90’s, and Covid more recently. But Asian Americans were also in the fight for civil rights.
Latino Civil Rights Timeline, 1903 to 2006
When reading this timeline, it’s important to remember that the fight for civil rights doesn’t happen in a vacuum. In…
Important Events of the Asian American Civil Rights Movement
During the Asian American civil rights movement of the 1960s and ’70s, activists fought for the development of ethnic…
But instead of appreciating what we have done, honoring our sacrifice, and joining our continuing work to make this nation great, far too many decided that sidling up to whiteness is a better route. And despite having a rich history of working for equality and equity for their own communities, too many Latino/Hispanic folk are forgetting and/or ignoring their recent pasts.
They are 100% wrong. Only one political party is working FOR you and your friends and family.
Please listen when folk tell you that you will never be accepted by white supremacists who are only using you to further their fantasy of an all-white ethnostate and once they achieve any semblance of that, you’ll be disgarded as fast as they’ve adopted the nazism.
Black folk will always be the most hated in this nation but trust us when we say, you aren’t and will never be far behind.
Only one political party works for equality and equity for all citizens, and only one political party works to harm all but wealthy white voters.
Make sure you support the right one.
Dear Dean 
loved your post.
That is what I think of it
Great post! It’s important to address how non-Black POC are also being lured into the white supremacy movement and the dangers it poses for all communities of color. My question is, how can we educate and mobilize non-Black POC to understand that supporting the Republican party only perpetuates anti-Blackness and harms all communities of color?
Ely Shemer
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