Black and Brown Unity?

[phrequency]

I grew up in Harlem and I always had friends who were both Black and Latino but even on the East Coast the idea of Latinos used to be very different than it is on the West. On the West Coast since the majority of people are Mexican you can't get away with talking reckless about them without consequence.

Here when I grew up it was Puerto Ricans who were in the majority who were followed by Dominicans and it was only recently that Mexicans have come to endanger that majority. But numbers do not equal strength for many have been enslaved by few before, just look at South Africa. We share a history of common enslavement yet we as a people were conquered. Made to be divided by racial ideas so that the white population could control us. Please don't be naïve to think it just worked itself out this way, it is by design.

It is hard to imagine Black and Brown Unity when there is no such thing as Black and Black Unity, or Brown and Brown Unity. Some argue against this idea saying whites commit crimes against each other even certain white ethnicities target each other, which is true. But we are not in the same position as them.

We live in an economic prison. You can walk away from a fight on the street, but it is much harder to walk away from one in prison. All the gangs that were formed, either by Italians, Irish, Puerto Ricans, Blacks, or any other immigrants or forced immigrants are the only reason they began to have any respect in the streets.

But only certain ethnicities had the racial benefit of being able to advance themselves beyond that into the acceptable sectors of society and the industries of America where power could be consolidated. We have forgotten that there is a world beyond the streets, that there is a dimension of existence where race matters less and money matters more.

We are blind to that because we have no knowledge of self, we have no historical context to what we have accomplished so rather than seeing each other as a people who have done great things through the course of history we still look each other through the eyes of the people that enslaved us, through that ancient hatred.

And not only that, but the sad truth is that we look at our brothers through the same lens. We fight over scraps, and while some criticize that, you would fight over scraps to if you were starving and you didn't realize who had been eating your food this whole time.

It almost doesn't make sense how a people who once controlled their own destiny and ruled half North America, Central America, South America and Africa could fall so far. Look at us now.

[ras]

this is by far the best thing ever posted here at bp.
i could not agree with you more....
but just as the sun will rise...
there will be things said here that further shows the ignorance
we poses that drives us apart.... mark my words....

[TONYHAWK]

Whats the solution.

[ras]

for a rock to fall from the heavens, wipe out 70-90% of the civilized world,
the survivors to eventually find each other, start over and some how never forget the inslavment, displacment, of every nation and the hatred and pain and sorrow it caused billions of people through the ages..... and finaly live in this world not as seperate races but one family.... THE HUMAN RACE....

[TONYHAWK]

Ok ..But on a more serious note..Because that there my friend is not going to happen..

[ras]

how do you figure that earth will not get hit AGAIN by another rock...
if we dont kill our selfs by our own hands
then a disease will do it
and if that has not happend, then a rock will eventually hit earth....

as far as a solution for our unity, there will never be one, we just have to do it on an individual level, have no hatred for no man of any place here on earth. stand on your principles, if only for your self

[Milky]

black and brown unity is a joke!! as long as there is gangs and prison beef that will never had! this "unity" is a joke! lets be real we live in a segragated and racist world and that will never change!! not trying to be a pessimist but a realist

[ras]

Originally Posted by Milky

black and brown unity is a joke!! as long as there is gangs and prison beef that will never had! this "unity" is a joke! lets be real we live in a segragated and racist world and that will never change!! not trying to be a pessimist but a realist

so fuck it, each and everyone act a fool right ?

[Milky]

thats not what im saying homie but im just telling it how it is from what ive seen

[kill9]

no such thing as black and brown unity, chicanos wanted it, the blacks didn't. They voted for Pete Wilson's Prop187 in record numbers, we're obviously not in the black's favor.

Now that Chicanos dominate, blacks want some unity, and of course, denied. Ain't that a bitch.