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American narcis…
American narcissism is telling immigrants that they should be grateful to live here, when it’s more likely than not some form of American interference that destabilized their home nation. (via...
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Please stop cal…
Please stop calling this a nation of immigrants. We are not a nation of immigrants. We are a nation of colonizers, ex-slaves, ghosts of genocide victims, and preferred immigrants. –Maurice Lucas (via...
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If you think of…
If you think of politics as “stuff you do to win elections” and policy as “stuff you do when you win elections,” it makes perfect sense. Exploiting fear of gays and undocumented immigrants is a part of...
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Immigration, a …
Immigration, a lexicon. You’re a ‘migrant’ when you’re very poor; ‘immigrant’ when you’re not so poor; and ‘expat’ when you’re rich. –Twitter / LailaLalami (via QueerIntersectional)
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Often, in an im…
Often, in an immigrant family, it’s a very big departure for a child to say: I want to be an artist, not a doctor, not a lawyer, or an engineer. The father, here, tells his daughter what so many...
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If you blame Na…
If you blame Native American communities for their poverty, remember that the entire continent was stolen from them. If you blame Black American communities for their relative poverty, remember that...
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Why doesn’t fem…
Why doesn’t feminist media treat immigration as an obvious feminist issue? Why doesn’t mainstream feminism seem to give a damn about undocumented women? Why aren’t more feminist organizations coming...
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There is a reas…
There is a reason my parents crossed the Atlantic. For those of us entrenched in our families’ Herculean feat of immigration, some unnamed desire to remain hopeful cannot be vanquished. Perhaps it...
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Maurice Lucas, on the US as a “nation of immigrants”
Please stop calling this a nation of immigrants. We are not a nation of immigrants. We are a nation of colonizers, ex-slaves, ghosts of genocide victims, and preferred immigrants. –Maurice Lucas (via...
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