Wajahat Ali

If we look at the prison industrial complex, the loophole in the 13th Amendment, trust and believe that loophole was meant

primarily for black people.

Now other people, especially working class people get caught up in that loop, but trust and believe that loophole was for black people, the way that we're seeing ICE comport itself.

Now, no comparison on the face of this earth in the United States of America to chattel slavery.

I'm gonna say this again to the people in the back.

No comparison on the face of this earth in the United States of America to chattel slavery.

However, the same energy, though, the same bigotry, the same hatred, the same the same methods.

we're seeing happen in real time on display in the streets in the United States of America.

And what we do know, and I think Brother Tim Wise would agree with this, that relative status won't save you.

And some of our white sisters and brothers and family and friends and then others who are not white because anti-blackness

It's not just reserved for white people, but that relative status can't save you.

And so that's why when people say, oh, my God, Nurse Alex Pretty.

Oh, yeah.

What happened to him was wrong all day long and twice on Sundays.

That same outrage to Sister Renee.

But that same outrage wasn't there when Kevin Porter, a Black man, the first person killed at the hands of ICE by an off-duty ICE agent, was nowhere to be found.

I'm not saying we shouldn't be outraged by what happened to Renee and Alex.

Renee, Nicole, absolutely we should be.

But don't forget about brother Kevin.

And on my last point here for this, we are in a fight and we always have been in the fight in the United States of America has been black liberation on one side and ruling class white with white supremacy on the other side groups in this country.