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> He wondered if his brown skin was part of the equation. > Bravo noted that all of the law enforcement officers that day were Hispanic. It's called "we do a

• nemomarx 8mo ago
  How do those relate? If the agency has been told to look at specific types of people to check for their papers, does it matter the race of the enforcers?
  • linkage 8mo ago
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    • refulgentis 8mo ago
      Your reaction is fascinating. What do you mean by play the race card? Kavanaugh stops are law of the land.
    • tristor 8mo ago
      It's relevant, because border patrol on the Southern border is heavily staffed by Hispanic officers, in part because they need officers that are bilingual as most immigration happening on the Southern border is from Spanish-speaking countries. But these same officers as a matter of policy are told to racially profile and target vehicles with Hispanic occupants. Power structures need the complicity of at least some defectors from the targeted group to be effective. Further, within racial groups colorism is also a thing and can result in behaviors that seem incongruent. I've heard some of my in-laws say things like "I'm Mexican, but I'm not Mexican Mexican." It's not something people want to think about or admit, but racial identity is not a bloc, and these types of colorist attitudes can contribute to why folks may defect against their racial group to side with power structures. Living in South Texas, I see a lot of shit, and what was said in the article neither surprised me nor seemed like a detail meant to evoke a race card. If anything it was pointing out that the officers pitted against the writer should theoretically had some empathy rather than acting out racial profiling. The truth is, that racial profiling happens a lot and sometimes the people doing it are of the same race as those being profiled.
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    • yunohn 8mo ago
      Maybe you’ve missed the news, but even ICE is not full of only white officers, lots of people of color in there too.
      • shadowgovt 8mo ago
        There also seems to be the assumption that people of a particular race can't be racist against members of the same race. "Uncle Tom's Cabin" is an old story by now, and "One of the good ones" an old meme.
        • yunohn 8mo ago
          The author did not make such a statement, rather (it appears to me), that they were surprised instead by the lack of empathy exhibited by said similar-origin agents. A feeling that is shared by a lot of people who are opposed to the inhumane brutality being meted out, without repercussions, by ICE agents.
          • shadowgovt 8mo ago
            Because race is a story we tell ourselves, it turns out to not be as hard as one might assume to bend the story to make ingroups and outgroups out of people that, to an outside observer, should have more in common than their interactions suggest they do.
        • cyanydeez 8mo ago
          the correct concept of racism is: Bigotry + Power. So you give anyone power and suddenly their view on race matters. The homeless black guy hating white people? What does that matter, he cant go shoot them in the back.
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    • cyanydeez 8mo ago
      I think people really misunderstand what racism is, and how Trump used the delusion of racists to make them all think they were gonna get "their" racism satisfied, when in fact, he was only refering to his and his staffs racism, which is mostly the same as Nazis. The fact that he was hispanic is in fact why he was harassed. The fact that some hispanics align with racism in the duty of Trump isn't confusing when you understand they might've thought he was venezualan while they're all cuban or whatever. They might have easily be enforcing their brand of racism. The reason thinks like "LatinX" were rejected by latinos wasn't cause they hated liberals, it was because most of the south/central Americans have their own ethnographic racisms, and Trump tapped into that by essentially convincing them that he'd go after the "illegal" ones, and all the racists replaced illegal with whatever ethnographic/nationalist they hated. So after all that, I assum you have no idea why hispanics deputized with federal power would pick on other hispanics, do you? Cause what you're demonstrating is the nazi POV of racism.