The Question of Sharing Suffering

By: Queennandi X PNN QCH

Not too long ago, a Latino Woman on YouTube had asked the question of why Black immigrants aren’t being deported from Amerikkka. 

The “not so bright” question was very upsetting to the people who watched the video and I was left wondering what planet was this woman on? Her asking that question is a terrible reminder that misinformation can sometimes lead to misplaced hatred and unconscious biased behavior in some people.

The exodus of all people of color being detained in ICE “concentration camps” is nothing short of systematic cultural genocide that’s controlled by colonizing illegals. According to the Human Rights Watch, 52 people, possibly more, has died in the custody of ICE, including a Haitian woman, elders, and a bi-cultural man from black/asian descent who subsequently lost his life due to being left out to freeze in harsh weather conditions. 

Although the majority of the detainees did not even have criminal records, well over 71,000 people were systematically kidnapped and detained-four times the rate that of the Biden administration, and 39 of them perished within the first year of Trumpaklan’s second term, thus bypassing the morality rate during his first one. Further reports stated that 20% of black immigrants who commit crimes similar to other immigrant populations are more than likely to be deported based upon criminal grounds and convictions.

The “war on drugs” with the backing of the violent crime control and law enforcement act (referring to the 1994 crime bill) is eerily similar to the IIRIRA (illegal immigration reform and immigrant responsibility act) which resulted in mass incarceration of people of color throughout the prison and detention systems.

Historically speaking however, the black population in this country doesn’t just have to deal with ICE, but the KKK also. The other fact is that our multi cultural families have reaped the “benefits” of the “immigration shuffle”  only to treat their African relatives with contempt, and in many cases have perpetuated the “if you can’t beat em’, join them” mindset, collaborating with the wite supremacists and continuing to support the oppression of black people and even profiting from it instead of working together against a common enemy who has us all on the same hit list.

POOR MAGAZINE- past and present has always stood tall- throwing down against the deportations and the overall wicked propaganda against all people who are darker than blue that included our Cambodian, Raza, Haitian, Palestinian, African, Arabic and our multi cultural Muslim families that has always been under constant colonial attacks. However, there is little to no “equality” due to the fact that the descendants of the “stealing fathers” of this nation has very seldom faced the same fate as the rest of us, regardless of our contributions to the building/progress to Amerikkka- voluntarily or by force. Either way the hidden sin of exploitation has been constantly overlooked and still continues to go unpunished- for now. 

Queennandi X PNN QCH