http://uptownnotes.com/black-and-brown-unite-to-fight-sb-1070/ Mon, 08 Dec 2014 10:47:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1 http://uptownnotes.com/black-and-brown-unite-to-fight-sb-1070/#comment-3292 Mon, 17 May 2010 22:26:34 +0000 http://www.uptownnotes.com/?p=2063#comment-3292 […] against Arizona’s legislation. I won’t go into the details of my opposition because Dr. L’Heureux Lewis captures SB 1070′s flaws quite well in this piece. (he also has a follow up piece “Arizona: For Whites Only?“ that you should read as […]

]]> http://uptownnotes.com/black-and-brown-unite-to-fight-sb-1070/#comment-3291 Fri, 07 May 2010 09:07:10 +0000 http://www.uptownnotes.com/?p=2063#comment-3291 BB, I need to get up on this bill, but this provided a great perspective. Some of the commentary on the Atlanta Post show a very racialized vantage point on keeping Brown and Black in our respective corners, and I wonder if brown folks debate their allegiance to us when we are portrayed as the gangsters and drug dealers. In short, are we not looking in the mirror at how our color is perceived to others, namely the folks being attacked by this bill?

]]> http://uptownnotes.com/black-and-brown-unite-to-fight-sb-1070/#comment-4510 Fri, 07 May 2010 04:07:00 +0000 http://www.uptownnotes.com/?p=2063#comment-4510 BB, I need to get up on this bill, but this provided a great perspective. Some of the commentary on the Atlanta Post show a very racialized vantage point on keeping Brown and Black in our respective corners, and I wonder if brown folks debate their allegiance to us when we are portrayed as the gangsters and drug dealers. In short, are we not looking in the mirror at how our color is perceived to others, namely the folks being attacked by this bill?

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