RE: Milwalkee riots
August 17, 2016 at 8:14 pm
(This post was last modified: August 17, 2016 at 8:14 pm by Regina.)
(August 17, 2016 at 8:11 pm)Bella Morte Wrote:(August 17, 2016 at 8:10 pm)Yeauxleaux Wrote: Jesse James Romero was black or at least looked it (albeit mixed/lighter skinned), "speaking Spanish" isn't a race. He's also far from the first black victim of police brutality to not get a lot of coverage. If every victim did, we'd literally never stop talking about it.
But non-black Hispanic, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, French etc etc lives can all matter when they're routinely being gunned down by the police every day. You've missed the memo that your life already matters in America so it doesn't need stating that your life matters. That's the entire fucking point.
He was Hispanic.
Yes he was Hispanic, and he was also black. They're not mutually exclusive. Only America makes a race out of speaking a certain language.
Ricky Martin and Zoe Saldana are both Hispanic, he's white, she's black. It's a culture, not a racial group.
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