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" We deserve a multiracial democracy that works for all of us. "
Opal Tometi
Us
Works
Democracy
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Looking
" The U.S.' refusal to acknowledge the plight of displaced Haitians and maintaining inhumane practices of neglect, disrespect, and violence amounts to a gross violation of human rights. "
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Disrespect
Human Rights
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" Many of the concessions that leading Democrats seem willing to make - from cutting diversity visas to chipping away at family visas - would be made on the backs of black immigrants, people from Africa and the Caribbean who deserve these policies to remain intact as some of the few legal tools they have to immigrate to this country. "
Opal Tometi
Legal
People
Family
" To me and to a number of other activists from the U.S., we believe that the human rights movement has to evolve and understand the global implications of structural racism. This means engaging the United Nations and a variety of other human rights bodies. "
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Understand
Rights
Racism
" I think the two-party system isn't working for us. And it hasn't worked for us for generations - let's be very, very honest about that. "
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Working
Think
System
" Some of us have held the hands of friends or brothers as they struggled with military and police academy recruiters, and though many of them never dreamed of being policemen, a lack of opportunities led them to those positions. "
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Opportunities
Hands
Friends
" President Trump is mentally incapable of imagining the humanity of anyone who looks different from him or hails from a different nation. "
Opal Tometi
Nation
Him
Looks
" The U.S. government has rarely, if ever, used the criminal history of a certain immigrant population in determining if the whole community should be allowed to remain in the country under a humanitarian program, like TPS. "
Opal Tometi
Community
Country
Government
" I challenge us all to have the courage of our convictions to fight for a fair, justice and inclusive society. "
Opal Tometi
Fight
Courage
Fair
" Lean into your curiosity about any issue, and there will likely be people to share a little bit more of their knowledge and insight and give you ideas on how to make change. "
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Change
Curiosity
Knowledge
" If black lives mattered, I believe that policing and immigration enforcement would not be the devastating force that it is in our communities. "
Opal Tometi
I Believe
Immigration
Black
" Anti-black racism operates at a society-wide level and colludes in a seamless web of policies, practices, and beliefs to oppress and disempower black communities. "
Opal Tometi
Level
Black
Beliefs
" In my own personal experience, I've had different family members who have been held in immigration detention because they've had some sort of challenge financially, and they were making difficult decisions, and that led to their immigration detention and, eventually, deportation. "
Opal Tometi
Family
Challenge
Experience
" Black Lives Matter is really an affirmation for our people. It's a love note for our people, but it's also a demand. We know that the system was not designed for justice for us. "
Opal Tometi
Know
Black
People
" We can't continue to sit on our hands and sit idly by as people are being brutalized, disenfranchised, and left out of the system. "
Opal Tometi
System
People
Out
" To fully understand the black immigrant experience in the U.S., we must understand it not in contrast to the African-American experience, but central to it. "
Opal Tometi
Immigrant
Understand
Black
" Many thought that the abolition of slavery, the end of Jim Crow, and the legislative progress of the Civil Rights Era, among other watershed moments, would have fundamentally done away with the racist structures that have long oppressed black people. However, we know that has been far from the case. "
Opal Tometi
Progress
People
Black
" Civility is the recognition that all people have dignity that's inherent to their person, no matter their religion, race, gender, sexuality, or ability. "
Opal Tometi
Gender
Religion
Recognition
" Our communities are reeling from poverty, from unemployment, from discrimination of all sorts and different interactions that they're having with the law enforcement, and education system, and so on. "
Opal Tometi
Education
Law
Poverty
" Due to broken windows policing, the following interactions can lead to tickets, arrests and summonses, warrants if tickets go unpaid and, in some cases, violence: jaywalking, sleeping on a park bench, spitting, putting your feet up on the subway, and more. "
Opal Tometi
Feet
Violence
Bench
" Despite claims that there are good and bad cops, we know that the system is failing everyone - including the police. "
Opal Tometi
Know
Good And Bad
Good
" We have to start imagining a new reality - this will mean fewer police and more social workers and teachers. This will mean creating more economic possibilities and investment that preserves and does not displace our communities. "
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New
Reality
Start
" Being in the immigrant rights space, I've heard a lot of transactional talk with questions like, 'When will black people show up for immigrants?' "
Opal Tometi
Questions
People
Black
" There are always groups on campus that are doing amazing things. I know when I was in college, I was a student at the University of Arizona, working on my bachelor's in history, and I got involved with a number of different groups that were connected to different social justice issues that I cared about. "
Opal Tometi
History
Amazing
Justice
" Racism should be a core concern for all Americans in every area of our lives. "
Opal Tometi
Area
Should
Racism
" We know that there are people in our nation, black people, who are systematically being disenfranchised in a number of spheres in our lives. "
Opal Tometi
Number
Nation
Know
" As an immigrant justice advocate, I, of course, want legal status for everyone trying to make it in this country. "
Opal Tometi
Trying
Immigrant
Justice
" Police cannot be allowed to continue aggressive, violent, and often unconstitutional policing with impunity. "
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Aggressive
Police
Cannot
" As we look ahead to our very diverse future, BAJI plans to continue to be at the forefront, uniting black communities to attain racial, social, and economic justice for all. "
Opal Tometi
Justice
Look
Ahead
" If people take the fight for justice seriously in their own country and with partners and immigrants in their community and folks in the international community, I believe that we will see human rights for all people affirmed. "
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People
Justice
Community