First and foremost, I am proud as a US citizen that people are hitting the streets, staging protest and trying to get corporation’s and the government’s attention with strikes and economic withholding on today, January 30^th, 2026. I believe these are important steps to take in trying to get these corporations to listen to the general public.

With that being said as a Black American, it’s important to acknowledge that these kind of actions should have been happening years, if not decades ago, when government agents and police officer killed multiple black and brown Americans in cities all over the United States. Today we are seeing large amount of white Americans standing up and speaking out now that they see that men and women like Renee Good and Alex Pretti (Americans that look like them) can be shot and killed like they’ve been doing to Black and “minority” Americans for decades.

And even in their protest, we can still see the division of racism at work as they have keep names like Keith Porter Jr. out of the forefront. Names like Liam Conejo Ramos a 5 year old preschool detained by ICE or Geraldo Lunas Campos that was choked to death while in custody at a detention center. Not including a list of names that most Americans aren’t aware of that have suffered, died, and torture in Detention Centers,

The people of Minnesota are chanting things like, “Say her name” and I wonder if they understand that this chant was first used with Breonna Taylor in 2020 in her wrongful murder.

I hope the people of Minnesota understand that these are just their first steps in the fight of injustice that have been happening since the wrongful lynching of Emmett Till and prior. Now it’s time to do the knowledge, read and understand what has happened in this country and what continues to happen in this country on a daily basis again the black and brown.

Since 2018, we’ve heard of women being raped and sexual assault in these detention faculties and the powers at be stating that it’s not responsible for it’s staffs actions. Not until March 2025 did CBP state that they would have zero tolerance policy on rapes and sexual assaults. Even though rape and sexual assault have been a disgustingly unlawful action for years, so how when these women are considered, “illegal alien” it deems them to be treated as subhuman without rights.

Doing the right things isn’t something that lawful or unlawful, look at our history: Fugitive Slave Act, the Black Codes, Jim Crow. And right now the president and other government officials sanctioning these occupations from city to city causing chaos, causing civil unrest, in the “name” of “justice”. Lying to the American people about what happened even those we all just saw what happened online via video recording.

Agencies like ICE and CBP are nothing but fraternities for racist bigots and losers wanting to cause harm. Sometimes again their own raza, because somehow they see themselves as superior. When actually the same racist they’re wanting to be, would arrest them and confine to detention center if they didn’t have the same uniform. Agencies like ICE and CBP are only the latest agencies causing injustice in American communities. Acting as a modern day gestapo. But don’t forget about the action of the FBI and CIA in the 60s, The NSA and their usage of the Patriot Act, and now Corporations like Google, Meta, and Open Al using your consumer information against you to drive up prices and gouge you at every corner.

These offensives on the American people run deep and I hope that you understand what it means to stand up and fight. Educate yourself, look up information, unlearn harmful stereotypes, and don’t believe everything that politicians and news anchors are spewing over the air ways. They want us to be divided and fight over insignificant things like race. When the real issues are much larger.