1/ I see the annual ‘who is more discriminated than the other’ competition is kicking off. We can recognise that racism affects ‘minority communities’ differently both historic & present - eg structural, police violence, racist attacks, housing, education etc. And still recognise
our unities. Rather than fighting for the ‘crumbs off the table’ as Malcolm X would say, we can collectively fight for our rights to be at the table’ - doing so requires unity against our common oppression. It’s what united ‘political blackness’ that said all peoples of colour
Had a common experience of racism, colonialism, imperialism & injustice. It’s was the basis of unity for the liberation movements across Africa, Asia & Latin America. That’s not to say there aren’t issues of discrimination between communities but unity was built in understanding
that as minority communities we had more in common with each other & from a practical point of view - none of us could win alone simply because we were minorities. Yes we must always study how racism mutates & targets different communities but frames that isolate us from each
Are what the State deployed fo smash black radicalism in the 80s. Today’s ‘identity politics’ would view Priti Patel or Candace Owen as being a victory for minority representation. Our fight for representation was always about a political programme & accountability to the black
Community. As we used to say back in the day ‘black is not the colour of my skin, it’s the colour of my politics’. It’s why the Panthers has more unity with all oppressed people than with Black capitalists & why we have more in common with the white working class than these two 
