I Made a Fake Twitter to Keep Up With POC Deaths

I made a fake twitter to keep up with the news — and specifically, the death of Latino youths that have not made the mainstream news media. In recent news, a Latino youth, Jose Raul Cruz was killed by an officer, but much to my surprise it was a black officer. In earlier news, a Black youth, Trayvon Martin was killed by a Latino officer — a man of Peruvian descent that is a disgrace to share nationality with. In both occasions when the incidents happened the officers were immediately charged and suspended (something that rarely happens with white officers despite videos recording the moments leading up to the victim’s death). The common denominator is not that these officers are of minority communities, but that they are men. It is urgent that in these cases of murder between minorities that we recognize that man is the agent of violence and not the color of their skin. As people of color we are demanded to take responsibility for the bad acts of members of our community by members of the privileged community. This inflicts a pain in us to be seen as “evil”, “bad”, “violent” and it gives them a reason to further socially marginalize us.

The law was created for men by men. But what is failed to be acknowledged in that statement is that the law was made for privileged, white men of society. While violence comes from the conscious it is only ever held accountable when it is men of color that are being tried. This in itself is selecting and choosing between men based solely on the color of their skin. This type of selection is a conception of cultural norms between the privileged and non-privileged that is violent themselves as stated by Nietzsche.

As people of color we must acknowledge to the full the extent of just how capable the larger patriarchy is to reach their goal which is to assert themselves and remain as the most supreme. In addition to the extent of which they will go to remove us from society by poisoning our minds with selective justice, institutional discrimination, and day to day racism. We cannot fall into the entrapment of minority against minority which is a mark of how deeply rooted white supremacy is.

… I remember the day I found out that la desgracia de George Zimmerman is half-Peruvian. I thought to myself — what a way for a country in Latin America to be popularly known in the States. That it had to be this pendejo who claims fear instilled in him the confidence to shoot a seventeen-year-old boy, Trayvon Martin. Not once did I think that Trayvon Martin (que en paz descanse) was in any way deserving or enacted an action to be killed. But I knew that racism would be called.

It is easy for me to say, and with every being of my corazon I apologize, that in order for our communities to grow together that I believe that we must stop calling racism and begin to cry together. In no way am I eliminating the belief that racism doesn’t occur between our two communities — it does, but there is a possibility for us to live in such a way, that is feared by the patriarchy, in harmony and in confidence that we support one another and fight each other’s fights. The act of crying will be the tool that we use to begin to heal our wounds, help each other regain strength, and come together as a united front fully trusting one another.