Black Immigrants Reconsidered Their Identities Amid Floyd Protests

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“[Black immigrants and their children] have a responsibility, not just towards Black Americans, but towards ourselves. We all face the same injustice against a white supremacist system.”

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The Invisible Wall: Title 42 and Its Impact on Haitian Migrants“ICE jumped at the opportunity to deport Black immigrants to the Caribbean, Central America, and sub-Saharan countries,” writes Patrice Lawrence, co-director of UndocuBlack Network, in acondemning the deportation flights. “We know that at the top of the list, individuals from Cameroon, Mauritania, Angola, Congo, Haiti, and Jamaica are immediately at risk.

That’s why, when it comes to politics, Ferede says she wants to tackle both systemic racism in the U.S. and U.S. imperialism abroad. Eradicating police brutality here is just as important to her as ending U.S. military intervention overseas in countries like Somalia, she says. For Makenna Lindsay, 20, last summer’s protests created common ground for her and her father, Marlon, 54, to speak about their shared struggles. During her childhood in Hartford, Connecticut, racial justice was always at the forefront of her conversations with her African American mother, but she felt like her Jamaican father was not as interested in discussing issues that were so important to her and her mother, until last year.

“He definitely became more invested in advocating for the African American community, specifically,” Lindsay says. “That was a shift I had literally never seen from that side of my family, ever.”Some Black immigrants, while committed to Black liberation, may be reluctant to allow their children to participate in protests because they fear jeopardizing their immigration status, Lindsay explains.

No matter how they choose to participate, Gyamfi says, Black communities will always come together when they have to fight for their rights, because their fates are linked. “We have shown, as Black people, that we keep us safe. We keep us going,” she says. “Black folks are going to liberate ourselves as we have always liberated ourselves.”

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