June 13, 2025 • 11 mins
Honestly, it makes me sad that this has to be explained, but here's why Black people should care about these ICE raids in Los Angeles.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
All media.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
This hood politics tapping in was so important to me,
I felt like I need to do it on video. Also,
I'm sure you know LA is under siege I don't
know how else to say it, by the Marines and
the National Guard in response to scattered protests against ICE
(00:31):
agents capturing about two thousand people, some of which are citizens,
some of which are not on some like oopsies and
just kind of throwing them in holding tanks. And if
you know anything about LA, won't play that. But I
want to talk about something particular, which is black love
(00:51):
and brown pride and some of the black community feeling
like we should just sit this one out. I think
we need to talk about this type being with its
(01:17):
First of all, let me lay out the sentiment that
black people are saying right now with sitting this one out.
When Trump got re elected and we saw mass protests
around Tesla and the fascist takeover, the original sentiment came
from that, which is like, you know what we tried
(01:37):
to tell you, I'm gonna set this one out issue
your turn. Okay, We've been on the front lines for
a long time. By a long time, I mean the
whole time right now. Any knowledge of history knows that
we are not the only people who have fought for
civil rights, right. You have many of the queer commun
(02:00):
unity and some of those even in Los Angeles, you know.
But the thing that's been interesting about the Black experience
is our movement was never just about us. It was
always about humanizations. And even when they were just about us,
because we were taking the brunt of anti blackness, we
(02:21):
were the enslaved ones because we took so much on
It was not easier, but it was Our movements lended
itself to intersectionality. People joined our movements black. You have
the Black Panthers and then the brown berets, you know
what I'm saying, Labor movements, these movements that we have done,
(02:43):
the fighting that we have done, we find ourselves a
lot of times, and specifically like the Black Church being
sort of the conscious, the moral compass of the country,
you know, and we're the ones with the dogs released
on us. We were the ones with you know, the
fire hoses, did the sit ins, we did all that,
We got the schools integrated.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
So there's this feeling.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
That we're kind of tired, and especially because oftentimes we
find ourselves having to explain the smell of your boot
leather while it's on our neck.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Does that make sense?
Speaker 2 (03:22):
We're actively being oppressed, But it's also our job to
educate everyone about oppression, about what it means, about how
this affects the rest of you, right that we are
fighting for the rights of all that's kind of been
in the stance. And then and then you get the
ab in a Trump and we're like, look, fam ninety two,
(03:45):
we did our part. We did not vote for this man.
We voted for the weird laugh Okay, we told y'all
this shit was going to happen, right, So the attitude
is like, dog like, you know what you all want
to listen to was we tried, We tried, We tried,
we tried. We told you this was a problem. We
(04:05):
told even this is I'm explaining the attitude. We told
even Asian and Latino communities that like what he doing
to us, they gonna do to you. You remember last
year when that Asian dude fought to end affirmative action,
(04:25):
We were like, these people don't love you, and what
we're trying to tell you is this is not gonna help.
So we felt like of all of our sacrifices, we
were also not considered. And then the Black Lives Matter
movement happened, and that was one of those moments.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Where it was really beautiful to see a lot of
the solidarity.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Sort of around around the country, only to have DEI
get attacked and people who had our back fold like
you put your little black square.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
On your Instagram and then that was it.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Right, So there's this sentiment that, like, y'all take our
support for granted, and our work is never it feels
like it goes unappreciated or underappreciated. So now with these
ice raids and these immigration issues, the attitude has become
a this ain't our fight attitude, which, if you know me,
(05:25):
almost infuriates me, Like, what the hell are you talking about?
Speaker 1 (05:29):
This ain't your fight? Now.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
On one hand, I can understand the sentiment of we
need to sit this out because we've done our part.
We tried, we told y'all, and then to watch the
Latino community vote for Donald Trump, We're like, you can't
be serious, y'all asked for. This is a sentiment that
we're struggling with. But while I feel like it's a
(05:52):
shame that I have to even make this case, let
me make a case as to why the moves that
ICE are doing absolutely will affect black people.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
So here we go. First of all, let's use some logic.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
You mean to tell me the country that kidnapped your
ancestors and made them work fields would not give them
freedom until a war happened and you was gonna lose
the country for which we had to fight in and
then turned around and built an amendment that said that
(06:29):
even though you free, and we not allowed to make
you a.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Slave unless.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Unless you was in jail, and then invented redlining Jim
Crow in mass incarceration.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
That country.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
You telling me that country would not think twice about
sending Joe black ass to another country to go to jail.
Are you serious right now? You think it's truly just
about them? Do you understand that ICE has no jurisdiction
to arrest someone that's a citizen. They're not cops. So
the fact that they accidentally picking people up, you think
(07:05):
that ain't got nothing to do with black people? Like,
I don't understand where your head at.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
How about this one?
Speaker 2 (07:13):
How about an Alabama there's a proposed bill, what is
it called HB six eighteen that would allow Alabama to
send people incarcerated in their state to foreign prisons.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Let me read it right now. This theal dot Com.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
It says this bill would authorize the Commissioner of the
Department of Corrections to enter into contracts with foreign nations
to confine Alabama inmates in penal institutions or correctional facilities.
This is what the legislation states, because I quote, our
prisons aren't harsh enough. I and my last point I
(07:53):
want to make with you is you think ain't no
black people in Latin America. Many times if I said this,
we too often identified with where the boat dropped us off,
then where it picked us up. When you look at
a Cuban and you're like, damn, you look like you black,
(08:15):
it's because they are. I don't understand what you don't understand.
You know, we got dropped off all over the Americas.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
They us.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
I just I don't understand what you don't understand. Now listen,
I also come from the Inner City, and I have
watched the Latino community, the Asian community, and every other
community of the diaspora of people that seizing their chicken
and washed their legs. I've seen them practice a number
(08:47):
of anti blackness things I've seen.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
I've heard all the racist.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Jokes coming from all them people, like I tell you
the Filipino one, what did the white goat say to
the black goat?
Speaker 1 (08:57):
God? I know? Okay.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Having said that, I also know that the President was
looking for any reason to bring the Marines to our
streets and that man don't see no difference between us.
I can't stress this enough. The state of California didn't
call for a state of emergency. Trump just did it.
(09:25):
He just sent the National Guard. That's illegal. The fact
that the Marines are in our streets like this more
freaking fallojah. I don't know what else to tell you
how outlandishly illegal that is, Like, are you what the
hell you mean?
Speaker 1 (09:45):
This ain't your fight?
Speaker 2 (09:47):
You think these people they don't see no difference with us?
You understand it's jump out boys in our streets. Listen,
I think somebody said it on Twitter. Anytime the government
got jump out boys when people are hopping out the
van and snatching people.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
That is a trillion percent black people business. How that what?
Speaker 2 (10:12):
And finally, last, but definitely not least, and probably should
be first, your boy tried to end birthright citizenship I
don't understand how the conversation didn't stop with that one.
So for you to think that this ain't your fight,
I just listen. They selling you a wolf ticket. But again,
(10:37):
let me end with this, I shouldn't have to tell
you that. Maybe it's because I'm from LA that I
understand our lives. Black Latino, Filipino, any Asian, any immigrants,
our fates are connected. If you got a little bit
(11:00):
the melanin in you, they coming.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
For you too. But I don't have to have skin
in the game.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
I love this city and I stand in solidarity with
suffering people everywhere. What's going on in Palestine, what's going
on where Ice, what's going on in Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
It's one thing. It's one thing. Tap in with me.
All media.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
This hood politics tapping in was so important to me,
I felt like I need to do it on video. Also,
I'm sure you know LA is under siege I don't
know how else to say it, by the Marines and
the National Guard in response to scattered protests against ICE
(00:31):
agents capturing about two thousand people, some of which are citizens,
some of which are not on some like oopsies and
just kind of throwing them in holding tanks. And if
you know anything about LA, won't play that. But I
want to talk about something particular, which is black love
(00:51):
and brown pride and some of the black community feeling
like we should just sit this one out. I think
we need to talk about this type being with its
(01:17):
First of all, let me lay out the sentiment that
black people are saying right now with sitting this one out.
When Trump got re elected and we saw mass protests
around Tesla and the fascist takeover, the original sentiment came
from that, which is like, you know what we tried
(01:37):
to tell you, I'm gonna set this one out issue
your turn. Okay, We've been on the front lines for
a long time. By a long time, I mean the
whole time right now. Any knowledge of history knows that
we are not the only people who have fought for
civil rights, right. You have many of the queer commun
(02:00):
unity and some of those even in Los Angeles, you know.
But the thing that's been interesting about the Black experience
is our movement was never just about us. It was
always about humanizations. And even when they were just about us,
because we were taking the brunt of anti blackness, we
(02:21):
were the enslaved ones because we took so much on
It was not easier, but it was Our movements lended
itself to intersectionality. People joined our movements black. You have
the Black Panthers and then the brown berets, you know
what I'm saying, Labor movements, these movements that we have done,
(02:43):
the fighting that we have done, we find ourselves a
lot of times, and specifically like the Black Church being
sort of the conscious, the moral compass of the country,
you know, and we're the ones with the dogs released
on us. We were the ones with you know, the
fire hoses, did the sit ins, we did all that,
We got the schools integrated.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
So there's this feeling.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
That we're kind of tired, and especially because oftentimes we
find ourselves having to explain the smell of your boot
leather while it's on our neck.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Does that make sense?
Speaker 2 (03:22):
We're actively being oppressed, But it's also our job to
educate everyone about oppression, about what it means, about how
this affects the rest of you, right that we are
fighting for the rights of all that's kind of been
in the stance. And then and then you get the
ab in a Trump and we're like, look, fam ninety two,
(03:45):
we did our part. We did not vote for this man.
We voted for the weird laugh Okay, we told y'all
this shit was going to happen, right, So the attitude
is like, dog like, you know what you all want
to listen to was we tried, We tried, We tried,
we tried. We told you this was a problem. We
(04:05):
told even this is I'm explaining the attitude. We told
even Asian and Latino communities that like what he doing
to us, they gonna do to you. You remember last
year when that Asian dude fought to end affirmative action,
(04:25):
We were like, these people don't love you, and what
we're trying to tell you is this is not gonna help.
So we felt like of all of our sacrifices, we
were also not considered. And then the Black Lives Matter
movement happened, and that was one of those moments.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Where it was really beautiful to see a lot of
the solidarity.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Sort of around around the country, only to have DEI
get attacked and people who had our back fold like
you put your little black square.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
On your Instagram and then that was it.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Right, So there's this sentiment that, like, y'all take our
support for granted, and our work is never it feels
like it goes unappreciated or underappreciated. So now with these
ice raids and these immigration issues, the attitude has become
a this ain't our fight attitude, which, if you know me,
(05:25):
almost infuriates me, Like, what the hell are you talking about?
Speaker 1 (05:29):
This ain't your fight? Now.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
On one hand, I can understand the sentiment of we
need to sit this out because we've done our part.
We tried, we told y'all, and then to watch the
Latino community vote for Donald Trump, We're like, you can't
be serious, y'all asked for. This is a sentiment that
we're struggling with. But while I feel like it's a
(05:52):
shame that I have to even make this case, let
me make a case as to why the moves that
ICE are doing absolutely will affect black people.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
So here we go. First of all, let's use some logic.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
You mean to tell me the country that kidnapped your
ancestors and made them work fields would not give them
freedom until a war happened and you was gonna lose
the country for which we had to fight in and
then turned around and built an amendment that said that
(06:29):
even though you free, and we not allowed to make
you a.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Slave unless.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Unless you was in jail, and then invented redlining Jim
Crow in mass incarceration.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
That country.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
You telling me that country would not think twice about
sending Joe black ass to another country to go to jail.
Are you serious right now? You think it's truly just
about them? Do you understand that ICE has no jurisdiction
to arrest someone that's a citizen. They're not cops. So
the fact that they accidentally picking people up, you think
(07:05):
that ain't got nothing to do with black people? Like,
I don't understand where your head at.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
How about this one?
Speaker 2 (07:13):
How about an Alabama there's a proposed bill, what is
it called HB six eighteen that would allow Alabama to
send people incarcerated in their state to foreign prisons.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Let me read it right now. This theal dot Com.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
It says this bill would authorize the Commissioner of the
Department of Corrections to enter into contracts with foreign nations
to confine Alabama inmates in penal institutions or correctional facilities.
This is what the legislation states, because I quote, our
prisons aren't harsh enough. I and my last point I
(07:53):
want to make with you is you think ain't no
black people in Latin America. Many times if I said this,
we too often identified with where the boat dropped us off,
then where it picked us up. When you look at
a Cuban and you're like, damn, you look like you black,
(08:15):
it's because they are. I don't understand what you don't understand.
You know, we got dropped off all over the Americas.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
They us.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
I just I don't understand what you don't understand. Now listen,
I also come from the Inner City, and I have
watched the Latino community, the Asian community, and every other
community of the diaspora of people that seizing their chicken
and washed their legs. I've seen them practice a number
(08:47):
of anti blackness things I've seen.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
I've heard all the racist.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Jokes coming from all them people, like I tell you
the Filipino one, what did the white goat say to
the black goat?
Speaker 1 (08:57):
God? I know? Okay.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Having said that, I also know that the President was
looking for any reason to bring the Marines to our
streets and that man don't see no difference between us.
I can't stress this enough. The state of California didn't
call for a state of emergency. Trump just did it.
(09:25):
He just sent the National Guard. That's illegal. The fact
that the Marines are in our streets like this more
freaking fallojah. I don't know what else to tell you
how outlandishly illegal that is, Like, are you what the
hell you mean?
Speaker 1 (09:45):
This ain't your fight?
Speaker 2 (09:47):
You think these people they don't see no difference with us?
You understand it's jump out boys in our streets. Listen,
I think somebody said it on Twitter. Anytime the government
got jump out boys when people are hopping out the
van and snatching people.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
That is a trillion percent black people business. How that what?
Speaker 2 (10:12):
And finally, last, but definitely not least, and probably should
be first, your boy tried to end birthright citizenship I
don't understand how the conversation didn't stop with that one.
So for you to think that this ain't your fight,
I just listen. They selling you a wolf ticket. But again,
(10:37):
let me end with this, I shouldn't have to tell
you that. Maybe it's because I'm from LA that I
understand our lives. Black Latino, Filipino, any Asian, any immigrants,
our fates are connected. If you got a little bit
(11:00):
the melanin in you, they coming.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
For you too. But I don't have to have skin
in the game.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
I love this city and I stand in solidarity with
suffering people everywhere. What's going on in Palestine, what's going
on where Ice, what's going on in Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
It's one thing. It's one thing. Tap in with me.
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