While Black people and Brown people have so much in common in America, it seems like our best interests are at odds.
This was never more obvious than in this most recent presidential election when the Hispanic population — men in particular — showed up in great numbers to help Donald Trump emerge victorious over then Vice President Kamala Harris. Many of us wondered how this made sense, with Trump taking aim at the Mexican borders and promising mass deportation of undocumented immigrants starting his first day in office.
It’s one of the few things he has kept his word on.
Not long after his Jan. 20 inauguration, Trump gave orders to start rounding up immigrants at home, work, school or wherever and ship them back across the border in mass. He is even attempting to rescind the 14th Amendment Birthright Citizenship to the children of undocumented immigrants who were born here in the U.S.
Black people, too, have suffered in these first two weeks of his presidency with rollbacks in DEI and Affirmative Action programs both in the government and the private sector.
Clearly, there seems to be a need for Black and Brown people to come together, but the question remains: How?
In our latest episode, the Defender Roundtable panel has a lively discussion about how realistic it is to expect Black and Brown folks to unite.
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