January 19, 2019
In a recent address regarding the border wall at the
beginning of this month, Donald Trump made an attempt to pit American
minorities against immigrants. Most likely reading words written by Stephen Miller,
the President directed his demonization of black and brown non-citizens to
black and brown citizens: “All Americans are hurt by uncontrolled illegal
migration. It strains public resources and drives down jobs and wages. Among
those hardest hit are African Americans and Hispanic Americans.” This
calculated artifice wants to continue the marginalization of the most oppressed
in this country.
The argument has two goals: first, to bait the general
public into hardening or developing inherently anti-black and brown views on
immigration; the second is to limit the power of oppressed people by hindering
their ability to form a collective front.[…]
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