A respectful Black-Latino coalition

“In between the reticence of the Black leadership to fully discuss the problem of immigration, especially as it affects the demands of the Latino population and the resentment of their constituents to those demands, is the necessity to consider rationally the content of an agenda that will unite the potential power of both.

Thus far, the voices of civil rights and political leaders are either stilled or supportive of a progressive approach to immigration that does not take into consideration the resentment of the rank and file Black working class. Their acknowledgment of the civil and human rights of Latinos is, therefore, considered one-sided and incomplete by many of their constituents. My task, then, is to propose measures that would construct the other side of the agenda, so that the progressive content of Black support for the Latino mobilization could be respectful of Black interests, as well.”

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