As Trump lines up Black people against immigrants, Bob Avakian poses a sharp challenge to Black people who are hating on immigrants: “Do you really want to be like the rabid white racists?”
Revcoms on the South Side of Chicago call on people to stop getting played by “divide and conquer” and unite for revolution against the whole system. Major controversy ensues...
In @bobavakianofficial social media dispatch #73, the revolutionary leader Bob Avakian said:
“One of the most maddening and heartbreaking things these days is to hear Black people, who have suffered so terribly under this system, hating on immigrants—talking about how immigrants are supposedly taking jobs and resources that should go to Black people and ruining neighborhoods where Black people have lived for generations.”
He goes on:
“When I hear this, I can’t help thinking about what happened when the mass migration of Black people from the South took place beginning after World War 1, a century ago. Coming into cities in the North, Black people were repeatedly and viciously attacked by racist white mobs, claiming that Black people were taking jobs from white people, that Black people were ruining the cities, and just refusing to ‘stay in their place.’”
Then he poses this question to any Black people today who are caught up in this hating on immigrants:
“Do you really want to be like the rabid white racists? Or, do you want to put an end to this madness—that you, and the immigrants, are being put through?”
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