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"They’ve got to have somebody to hate. ... They can’t pick on black folks like that any more because we got laws passed, right? They’re citizens. But they can pick on the immigrant. And that’s what they do.”
—Father Jeremy Tobin, a Catholic priest
theguardian.com/us-news/2019/a…
I maybe should’ve made this point clearer in the story, but I think he was getting at the idea that while they do “pick on black folks,” they can't easily do it in the same overt ways now & have to use more sophisticated ones (eg, systemic racism in our criminal justice system).
They do things like create school-to-prison pipelines and create a system where they can use (often) bs reasons to lock up black kids. But you can throw small brown skinned immigrant kids+babies in cages & camps en mass just by saying they’re not supposed to be here.
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